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1 GMAS Jeopardy Second Semester

2 Astronomy Earth, Sun, Moon Tides Hydrology Meteorology Conservation
$100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Double Jeopardy

3 What two things cause Earth’s seasons?
ANSWER Astronomy $100

4 Astronomy $100 What two things cause Earth’s seasons?
What is Earth’s revolution around the Sun and Earth’s tilt? HOME Astronomy $100

5 Astronomy $200 What are the planets in order starting at the sun?
ANSWER Astronomy $200

6 Astronomy $200 What are the planets in order starting at the sun?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? HOME Astronomy $200

7 How long does it take the Earth to make 1 complete rotation?
ANSWER Astronomy for $300

8 How long does it take the Earth to make 1 complete rotation?
What is 24 hours or 1 day? HOME Astronomy for $300

9 Astronomy $400 What model of the universe did Copernicus create?
ANSWER Astronomy $400

10 Astronomy $400 What model of the universe did Copernicus create?
What is the heliocentric model? HOME Astronomy $400

11 Which direction does a comet’s tail point?
ANSWER Astronomy $500

12 Astronomy $500 Which direction does a comet’s tail point?
What is away from the Sun? HOME Astronomy $500

13 Why do we observe the moon in different parts of the sky depending upon the time of day or night?
ANSWER Earth, Sun, Moon $100

14 Why do we observe the moon in different parts of the sky depending upon the time of day or night?
What is the Earth and moon are both rotating and revolving? HOME Earth, Sun, Moon $100

15 What order are the Moon, Sun, and Earth during a lunar eclipse?
ANSWER Earth, Sun, Moon $200

16 What order are the Moon, Sun, and Earth during a lunar eclipse?
What is Sun, Earth, and Moon? HOME Earth, Sun, Moon $200

17 What is the next moon phase?
ANSWER Earth, Sun, Moon $300

18 Earth, Sun, Moon $300 What is the next moon phase?
What is a waxing gibbous? HOME Earth, Sun, Moon $300

19 What can people from Earth see during the first and last quarter phases?
ANSWER Earth, Sun, Moon $400

20 What can people from Earth see during the first and last quarter phases?
What is half of the Moon’s lit surface HOME Earth, Sun, Moon $400

21 How is it possible that the moon can block out the sun during a solar eclipse?
ANSWER Earth, Sun, Moon $500

22 How is it possible that the moon can block out the sun during a solar eclipse?
What is the Sun is 400 times bigger, but the moon is 400 times closer so they appear to be the same size? HOME Earth, Sun, Moon $500

23 How many tide changes do we have in 1 day?
ANSWER Tides $100

24 Tides $100 How many tide changes do we have in 1 day? What is four?
HOME Tides $100

25 What causes tides? ANSWER Tides $200

26 Tides $200 What causes tides?
What is the moon’s gravitational pull and to a lesser degree the Sun’s? HOME Tides $200

27 What is the lowest high tide called?
ANSWER Tides $300

28 Tides $300 What is the lowest high tide called? What is a neap tide?
HOME Tides $300

29 Where does high tide occur?
ANSWER Tides $400

30 Tides $400 Where does high tide occur?
What is on the side of the Earth facing the moon and the opposite side? HOME Tides $400

31 What causes spring tide to be the highest high tide?
ANSWER Tides $500

32 Tides $500 What causes spring tide to be the highest high tide?
What is the Sun works with the moon to create a larger bulge? HOME Tides $500

33 Hydrology $100 97.2% of the water on Earth is what type of water?
ANSWER Hydrology $100

34 Hydrology $100 97.2% of the water on Earth is what type of water?
What is salt water? HOME Hydrology $100

35 Hydrology $200 What is the name for an underwater mountain range?
ANSWER Hydrology $200

36 Hydrology $200 What is the name for an underwater mountain range?
What is a mid-ocean ridge? HOME Hydrology $200

37 If there were a slight increase in the amount of solar energy that reached the Earth, there would be an immediate increase in what? ANSWER Hydrology $300

38 If there were a slight increase in the amount of solar energy that reached the Earth, there would be an immediate increase in what? What is evaporation? HOME Hydrology $300

39 What causes surface currents to flow in predictable patterns: clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere? And what is this phenomenon called? ANSWER Hydrology $400

40 What causes surface currents to flow in predictable patterns: clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere? And what is this phenomenon called? What is Earth’s rotation? What is the Coriolis Effect? HOME Hydrology $400

41 Hydrology $500 What are the two main causes of deep ocean currents?
ANSWER Hydrology $500

42 Hydrology $500 What are the two main causes of deep ocean currents?
What are differences in temperature and salinity? HOME Hydrology $500

43 Which climate zone is Georgia located in?
ANSWER Meteorology $100

44 Meteorology $100 Which climate zone is Georgia located in?
What is the temperate climate zone? HOME Meteorology $100

45 Meteorology $200 What effect does El Nino have on us in Georgia?
ANSWER Meteorology $200

46 Meteorology $200 What effect does El Nino have on us in Georgia?
What is wetter weather? HOME Meteorology $200

47 In which climate is there a higher rate of evaporation, therefore saltier oceans?
ANSWER Meteorology $300

48 In which climate is there a higher rate of evaporation, therefore saltier oceans?
What is the tropical climate zone? HOME Meteorology $300

49 Which layer of the atmosphere does weather occur in?
ANSWER Meteorology for $400

50 Which layer of the atmosphere does weather occur in?
What is the troposphere? HOME Meteorology for $400

51 What happens at dew point?
ANSWER Meteorology $500

52 Meteorology $500 What happens at dew point?
What is water vapor condenses back into a liquid? HOME Meteorology $500

53 What are three ways we can conserve soil?
ANSWER Conservation $100

54 Conservation $100 What are three ways we can conserve soil?
What is cover crops, crop rotation, contour plowing, strip planting, terrace farming, and mulching? HOME Conservation $100

55 What is it important to conserve non- renewable natural resources?
ANSWER Conservation $200

56 What is it important to conserve non- renewable natural resources?
What is once they are gone it takes millions of years to make more? HOME Conservation $200

57 Conservation $300 What are three examples of renewable resources?
ANSWER Conservation $300

58 Conservation $300 What are three examples of renewable resources?
What are wood, animals, air, sun, water, what, biomass, and wind? HOME Conservation $300

59 Name three greenhouse gases?
ANSWER Conservation $400

60 Conservation $400 Name three greenhouse gases?
What are carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and methane? HOME Conservation $400

61 What is the Greenhouse Effect?
ANSWER Conservation $500

62 Conservation $500 What is the Greenhouse Effect?
What is the layer of greenhouse gases that form a thermal blanket around Earth, absorbing the Sun’s radiation, and causing global warming? HOME Conservation $500

63 Explain the steps of how to find the mass of an cellphone
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