WEATHER JEOPARDY

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• WEATHERJEOPARDY

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• CLOUDS

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• The 3 main descriptors of clouds are

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• What are cumulus, stratus cirrus?

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• The name of the thunderstorm cloud is

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• What is cumulonimbus?

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• Two ways to identify clouds are

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• What is shape location in the sky?
• (High, medium, low)

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• These are what clouds are made of

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• What are water ice?

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• A partly cloudy day will be more sunny or more
  cloudy

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• What is more sunny?

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• ATMOSPHERE

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• The layer of the atmosphere where weather takes
  place is

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• What is the troposphere?

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• The layers of the atmosphere in order from Earth
  outwards are

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• Troposphere
• Stratosphere
• Mesosphere
• Thermosphere
• Exosphere

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• The layer of the atmosphere where the ozone is

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• What is the stratosphere?

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• The reason the ozone layer is important to life
  on Earth

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• What is protection by absorbing the harmful rays
  (radiation) of the sun?

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• Element that makes up most (4/5) of the Earths
  atmosphere is

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• What is nitrogen?

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• WATER CYCLE

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• Stages of the water cycle in order are

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• What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation
  accumulation (collection)?

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• Process of water changing into a gas is called

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• What is evaporation?

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• Process of water vapor changing into a liquid
  (water droplets) is

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• What is condensation?

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• The source of energy for the water cycle is

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• What is the sun?

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• The meaning of the prefix hydro is

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• What is water?

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• WEATHERINSTRUMENTS

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• Instrument that measures air pressure

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• What is a barometer?

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• Instrument that measures speed of wind

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• What is an anemometer?

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• Instrument that measures humidity

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• What is a hygrometer?

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• The 2 most common scales of measurement on
  thermometers are

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• What are Fahrenheit Celsius?

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• Usual kinds of weather you find in areas of High
  pressure Low pressure

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• What is sunny, good weather for High pressure?
  What is stormy, bad weather for Low pressure?

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• MISCELLANEOUS

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• For this reason your ears pop as you go up a
  mountain

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• What is a change in air pressure?

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• The word atmosphere comes from the Greek and means

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• What is ball of air?

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• The scientists job that studies predicts the
  weather is

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• What is a meteorologist?

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• The chemical notation for the water molecule is

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• What is H2O ?

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• This causes water vapor to condense

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• What is cold?

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• This causes water to evaporate

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• What is heat?

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• The force on Earth caused by the weight of
  molecules in the air is

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• What is air pressure?

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• The process of animals using oxygen to breathe is
  called

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• What is respiration?

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• Carbon dioxide is used in photo-synthesis by
  plants to make their food oxygen is released in
  this process

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• What is transpiration?

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• The 4 ingredients needed to make weather are

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• What are water, sunlight, air the Earth?

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• The hottest area of the Earth is

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• What is the equator?

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• The reason hot air rises

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• What is hot air is lighter less dense
  (molecules spread out further apart) than cold
  air?

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• The weather temperature an area has over time
  (several months years)

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• What is climate?

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• The temperature conditions for Monday, January
  23rd? (28 degrees snowing)

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• What is weather?

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• The force that holds the atmosphere in place

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• What is gravity?

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• The formation of wind takes place when

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• What is when cold air rushes into areas to
  replace warm air that has risen?

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• The Jet Stream moves in this direction

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• What is from west to east?

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• The movement of heat through liquids or gases is
  called

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• What is convection?

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• Zero altitude, called Ground Zero is also called

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• What is sea level?

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• Sheets of ice found in mountains, more common in
  ancient times are

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• What are glaciers?

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• The 3 states of matter are

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• What are solid, liquid gas?

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• The lines on a weather map that form around High
  Low pressure areas are called

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• What are isobar lines?

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• The 3 kinds of weather fronts?

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• What are warm, cold stationary?

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• High pressure cells move in this direction

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• What is clockwise?

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• Low pressure cells move in this direction

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• Weather systems move in this direction

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• What is from west to east?

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• This is the fraction or percentage of water on
  Earth

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• What is ¾ or 75?