Let's Play "The Atmosphere" Jeopardy Don’t forget to say your answer in a form of a question! GOOD LUCK Here are the categories
Composition of Atmosphere
Structure of Atmosphere
Earth-Sun Relationships
Heat Transfer
The Sun
Temperature Controls
Composition of Atmosphere Structure of Atmosphere Earth-Sun Relationships Heat Transfer The Sun Temperature Controls $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500
This is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere. $100
What is Nitrogen? $100
This compound in the stratosphere is responsible for protecting us from ultraviolet radiation. $200
What is ozone? $200
This is the layer of the atmosphere in which weather occurs. $300
What is the troposphere? $300
These are two gases responsible for the absorption of heat in the troposphere. $400
What are (select 2) carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor? $400
This is a term that describes the number of atmosphere molecules in a given space. $500
What is density? $500
This is what happens to the density, pressure, and temperature as you travel away from the Earth. $100
What is to decrease? $100
This is the force of atmosphere on you. $200
What is air pressure? $200
This is the layer where you find northern lights. $300
What is the thermosphere? $300
This is the characteristic that most obviously divides the atmospheric layers. $400
What is temperature change? $400
This is what happens to pressure as you increase temperature at the same latitude. $500
What is increases? $500
This motion is responsible for day and night. $100
What is rotation? $100
This motion is responsible for the changing seasons. $200
What is revolution? $200
This is responsible for the southern and northern hemispheres having opposite seasons. $300
What is Earth’s tilt on its axis? $300
Daily Double
This is the reason that Earth circles the Sun. $400
What is gravity? $400
This is the time of year when Earth is closest to the sun. $500
What is January? $500
This is the circular transfer of energy through a fluid. $100
What is convection? $100
This is how a metal spoon becomes hot after being left in a pan of boiling water. $200
What is conduction? $200
This is the direction that heat always transfers. $300
What is from a warmer object to a cooler abject? $300
As temperature increases, this is what happens to the movement of molecules. $400
What is they move faster? $400
All objects (even ice cubes) give off this sort of heat. $500
What is radiation? $500
This is a term for sunlight that is taken in by the earth before being released as heat. $100
What is absorption? $100
This is what happens when light bounces off an object and redirected out to space. $200
What is reflection? $200
This is the term for the outermost layer of the sun. $300
What is the corona? $300
This is when the gases in the atmosphere absorb energy and re-radiate it back to the Earth’s surface, supplying additional heat. $400
What is the greenhouse effect? $400
This solar feature can cause interruptions in Earth’s communications and navigation systems. $500
What is solar wind? $500
This relationship predicts this will happen to the temperature when traveling from lower to higher latitude. $100
What is decrease? $100
This is how clouds affect the temperature of the earth’s surface at night. $200
What is it increases the temperature? $200
This is the term for the lines on this map. $300
What are isotherms? $300
This is true about the heating of land compared with water. $400
What is land heats and cools more rapidly than water? $400
This is how the climate of the Southern Hemisphere differs from the Northern Hemisphere. $500
What is that the Southern Hemisphere has milder summers and winters than the Northern? $500
Final Game Questions Temperature v. climate
This is the difference between weather and climate.
What is time? Weather is atmospheric conditions over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time.
And the winner is…..