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Jeopardy

Jeopardy. Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy. It’s in the air. Rain drops falling On my head. Up in the clouds. Stormy weather.

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Jeopardy

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  1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. It’s in the air Rain drops falling On my head Up in the clouds Stormy weather Weather potpourri Opposite of backs 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. Where does weather occur? a. exosphere b. thermosphere c. stratosphere d. troposphere

  5. What layer contains the ozone? a. exosphere b. thermosphere c. stratosphere d. troposphere

  6. What is the hottest layer? a. exosphere b. thermosphere c. stratosphere d. troposphere

  7. What layer is the middle layer where meteors burn up?

  8. List the layers of the atmosphere in order from bottom to top.

  9. Water falling from the atmosphere to the ground in any from is called….

  10. What process involves going from a liquid to a gas?

  11. What process involves going from a gas to a liquid?

  12. The process of water evaporating from the leaves of plants is called…..

  13. What percent of Earth is composed of water?

  14. What are the 3 types of clouds?

  15. Which type of cloud is layered?

  16. Which type of cloud is made of ice crysal with wispy tails?

  17. Which type of cloud is white and puffy like a cotton ball?

  18. What type of cloud is associated with precipitation and severe weather?

  19. What are the 4 kinds of fronts?

  20. When a cold air mass advances and pushes under a warm air mass the warm air is forced to rise. This type of front can sometimes cause storms.

  21. If warm air is advancing into a region of colder air a ________ front is formed.

  22. When a cold air mass meets a warm air mass but neither really advance this is called a ________ front.

  23. When 2 cold air masses force a warm air mass to rise this is called a ______ front.

  24. Which of the following is true about low and high pressure air masses? • a.low pressure systems are associated with stormy weather • b. high pressure systems are associated with cyclones • c. low and high pressure systems must meet to form a hurricane • d. low pressure systems are associated with the southern hemisphere

  25. What happens to the intensity of a hurrican when it makes landfall?

  26. How would you describe the eye of a hurricane?

  27. How would a waterspout- a tornado that forms over water-look different than a tornado that forms over land? • a. it wouldn’t be as dark in color • b. it wouldn’t be as powerful • c. its winds would rotate in the opposite direction • d. it wouldn’t be accompanied by thunderstorms

  28. What kind of thunderstorm is capable of producing a tornado?

  29. Solids such as dust, salt, pollen, and tiny acid droplets in the atmosphere are . a. aerosols b. gases c. coral reefs d. fossil fuels

  30. Describe a cause , effect, and solution of increase in greenhouse gases.

  31. What are jet streams? a. Swirling winds that make tornadoes b. A type of solar wind c. Winds that blow in the same place all the time d. Giant rivers of air that affect the weather

  32. What causes low pressure centers to rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere? (it also causes winds to go one direction in the north and another in the south due to Earth’s rotation) a. trade winds b. prevailing westerlies c. coriolis effect d. jet stream

  33. What is humidity and what does it mean if the relative humidity is 100 percent.

  34. Final Jeopardy Make your wager

  35. Draw the symbol on a weather map for the following: High pressure Low pressure Cold Front Warm front Occluded front

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