Science Extra Credit Jeopardy Game By Alden Willis 10/23/12 Mrs. Smith/5 th period

Jeopardy Atmosphere layers and comp. of air Altitude vs. pressure/temperature/de nsity Pressure systems, fronts and air masses Clouds and severe weather Water Cycle and Winds Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from H1 The five layers of the atmosphere.

$100 Answer from H1 What is Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere Exosphere?

$200 Question from H1 The word that means middle, describing one of the layers of Earth’s atmosphere.

$200 Answer from H1 What is Meso?

$300 Question from H1 The air is mainly made the following Substance.

$300 Answer from H1 What is Nitrogen (78%)?

$400 Question from H1 The percent of the air composition that is made up of other gases.

$400 Answer from H1 What is1%?

$500 Question from H1 The outermost part of the Thermosphere.

$500 Answer from H1 What is Exosphere?

$100 Question from H2 This is what happens to air pressure when altitude increases.

$100 Answer from H2 What is air pressure gets lower?

$200 Question from H2 The process by which heat is trapped in the atmosphere by water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases that form a blanket around the earth.

$200 Answer from H2 What is greenhouse effect?

$300 Question from H2 This is used to describe the height of something in relation to sea level on earth.

$300 Answer from H2 What is altitude?

$400 Question from H2 The two layers of the atmosphere where altitude increases and temperature decreases.

$400 Answer from H2 What is troposphere and mesosphere?

$500 Question from H2 The two layers when the altitude increases the temperature increases.

$500 Answer from H2 What is stratosphere and thermosphere.

$100 Question from H3 A warm air mass overtakes a slow moving cold air mass.

$100 Answer from H3 What is warm front?

$200 Question from H3 A warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses.

$200 Answer from H3 What is occluded front.

$300 Question from H3 A warm, humid air mass that forms over tropical oceans. The summer is hot and humid. The winter is cold with heavy rain and/or snow.

$300 Answer from H3 What is Maritime tropical?

$400 Question from H3 Air moves clockwise around the high pressure system and down. High pressure systems have little to no cloud cover and bring good weather.

$400 Answer from H3 What is high pressure system?

$500 Question from H3 Air moves counterclockwise around a low pressure system and up, which creates clouds. Low pressure systems indicate “bad” weather precipitation.

$500 Answer from H3 What is low pressure system?

$100 Question from H4 A word prefix meaning mid altitude.

$100 Answer from H4 What is alto?

$200 Question from H4 A type of cloud that is puffy or heaped in appearance, has distinct edges.

$200 Answer from H4 What is cumulus?

$300 Question from H4 The type of cloud that forms in horizontal layers and blankets in the sky.

$300 Answer from H4 What is stratus?

$400 Question from H4 A small storm often accompanied by heavy precipitation and frequent thunder and lightning.

$400 Answer from H4 What is thunderstorm?

$500 Question from H4 The name given to a tropical cyclone that typically forms in the Atlantic Ocean, or Western Pacific.

$500 Answer from H4 What is a typhoon?

$100 Question from H5 The repeating process that moves water in different forms between earths surface.

$100 Answer from H5 What is water cycle?

$200 Question from H5 The process of a liquid changing into a gas.

$200 Answer from H5 What is evaporation?

$300 Question from H5 Water that flows across the surface of the earth.

$300 Answer from H5 What is runoff?

$400 Question from H5 The process of water evaporating from the leaves of plants during photosynthesis.

$400 Answer from H5 What is transpiration?

$500 Question from H5 Any type of a liquid or solid water that falls to earths surface (rain, snow, sleet, or hail)

$500 Answer from H5 What is precipitation?

Final Jeopardy The graph you would use to show change over a period of time.

Final Jeopardy Answer What is a line graph?