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Jeopardy Life Science

Layers of the Atmosphere Jeopardy The Air Around You Air Pressure Layers of the Atmosphere Air Quality Vocabulary Words Capture the Chapter 200 400 600 800

The Air Around You for 200 The percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere is approximately _____________ What is 21 percent? Back to Jeopardy

The Air Around You for 400 A gas in the atmosphere that varies in different places and from time to time is __________________ What is water vapor? Back to Jeopardy

The Air Around You for 600 What is Nitrogen? Back to Jeopardy __________________ is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere. What is Nitrogen? Back to Jeopardy

The Air Around You for 800 What is oxygen? Back to Jeopardy Fires need _________________ to burn. What is oxygen? Back to Jeopardy

Air Pressure for 200 The amount of mass in a given volume of a substance is its _____________. What is density? Back to Jeopardy

Air Pressure for 400 What is decreases? Back to Jeopardy As the density of air decreases, its pressure ______________________. What is decreases? Back to Jeopardy

Air Pressure for 600 Air pressure is often measured in _________________ or inches of mercury. What is millibars? Back to Jeopardy

Air Pressure for 800 What is pressure? Back to Jeopardy ______________ is the force per unit area. What is pressure? Back to Jeopardy

Layers of the Atmosphere for 200 The four main layers of the atmosphere are classified according to changes in ______________________. What is temperature? Back to Jeopardy

Layers of the Atmosphere for 400 The stratosphere helps protect Earth from too much ultraviolet radiation because this layer of the atmosphere contains _________________ What is ozone? Back to Jeopardy

Layers of the Atmosphere for 600 The warmest layer of the atmosphere is the _____________________. What is thermosphere? Back to Jeopardy

Layers of the Atmosphere for 800 The layer of the atmosphere that reflects radio waves is the ________________. What is the thermosphere? Back to Jeopardy

Air Quality for 200 Harmful substances in the air, water, or soil are called ________________. What are pollutants? Back to Jeopardy

Air Quality for 400 Particles of carbon that enter the air when wood or coal are burned are called _____________________. What is soot? Back to Jeopardy

Air Quality for 600 One cause of acid rain is the burning of coal that contains a lot of _________. What is sulfur? Back to Jeopardy

Air Quality for 800 Photochemical smog is caused by the action on chemicals of __________. What is sunlight? Back to Jeopardy

Vocabulary Words for 200 ________________ is the condition of earth’s atmosphere at a particular time and place. What is weather? Back to Jeopardy

Vocabulary Words for 400 Over the past 30 years, ________ ____________ in the United States has generally improved. What is air quality? Back to Jeopardy

Vocabulary Words for 600 Air pressure decreases as _____________ increases. What is altitude? Back to Jeopardy

Vocabulary Words for 800 These colorful light displays occur in the ionosphere. What are auroras? Back to Jeopardy

Capture the Chapter for 200 This is the name of the scientific instrument that measures air pressure What is a barometer? Back to Jeopardy

Capture the Chapter for 400 This material is helpful in the stratosphere, but harmful in the troposphere. What is ozone? Back to Jeopardy

Capture the Chapter for 600 By improving this, we would be able to reduce health costs because people would have fewer respiratory problems. What is air quality? Back to Jeopardy

Capture the Chapter for 800 At high altitudes, pilots must wear oxygen masks because the air here has low pressure and _________________. What is density? Back to Jeopardy

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Layers of the Atmosphere Double Jeopardy The Air Around You Air Pressure Layers of the Atmosphere Air Quality Vocabulary Words Capture the Chapter 400 800 1200 1600

The Air Around You for 400 Each molecule of ozone contains this many oxygen atoms. What are three? Back to Double Jeopardy

The Air Around You for 800 Our atmosphere is important because it helps makes conditions on Earth suitable for __________ _________. What are living things? Back to Double Jeopardy

The Air Around You for 1200 Carbon dioxide and _____________ are the next two most abundant gases in the atmosphere behind nitrogen and oxygen. What is argon? Back to Double Jeopardy

The Air Around You for 1600 This is the percent by volume of hydrogen in dry air. What is 0.00005%? Back to Double Jeopardy

Air Pressure for 400 _________ _________ is the result of the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area. What is air pressure? Back to Double Jeopardy

Air Pressure for 800 As the mass of an object increases, its density will __________________ What is increase? Back to Double Jeopardy

Air Pressure for 1200 30 inches of mercury is equal to about ________________ millibars. What is 1,016? Back to Double Jeopardy

Air Pressure for 1600 At a height of 6 km, the air pressure would be about ________ inches of mercury. What is 14? Back to Double Jeopardy

Layers of the Atmosphere for 400 This is the “middle” layer of the atmosphere. What is the mesosphere? Back to Double Jeopardy

Layers of the Atmosphere for 800 The top of the troposphere has this for a temperature. What is -60 degrees Celsius? Back to Double Jeopardy

Layers of the Atmosphere for 1200 This prefix means “outer” in the outermost layer of our atmosphere. What is Exo? Back to Double Jeopardy

Layers of the Atmosphere for 1600 One cubic meter of air at sea level would expand out to this many cubic meters at the top of the mesosphere. What is 100,000? Back to Double Jeopardy

Air Quality for 400 When a candle was burned in class and covered with a jar, the jar was filled with this. What is smoke? Back to Double Jeopardy

Air Quality for 800 The burning of these can cause smog and acid rain. What are fossil fuels? Back to Double Jeopardy

Air Quality for 1200 This agency monitors air pollutants in the United States. What is the EPA? Back to Double Jeopardy

What is carbon monoxide? Air Quality for 1600 This pollutant is caused by the burning of fossil fuels and can reduce the ability of blood to deliver oxygen to cells. What is carbon monoxide? Back to Double Jeopardy

Vocabulary Words for 400 This gas form of water is invisible. What is water vapor? Back to Double Jeopardy

Vocabulary Words for 800 This is another word for elevation. What is altitude? Back to Double Jeopardy

What is turning or changing? Vocabulary Words for 1200 The prefix “Tropo” means this. What is turning or changing? Back to Double Jeopardy

Vocabulary Words for 1600 This is the year in which the term “smog” was coined by combining the words smoke and fog. What is 1905? Back to Double Jeopardy

Capture the Chapter for 400 Forest fires, soil erosion and dust storms are natural sources of ___________ _______________ What is air pollution? Back to Double Jeopardy

Capture the Chapter for 800 The lowest temperature in the atmosphere is found where these two layers meet. What are the mesosphere and thermosphere? Back to Double Jeopardy

Capture the Chapter for 1200 This is the percentage of oxygen you would find in the air at the top of Mount Everest. What is 21%? Back to Double Jeopardy

Capture the Chapter for 1600 The water vapor content of the tropical rain forest atmosphere can be as high as this percentage. What is 4%? Back to Double Jeopardy

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What is 1 gram per milliliter? Final Jeopardy This is the density of water. What is 1 gram per milliliter?