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GMAS Jeopardy Second Semester
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Astronomy Earth, Sun, Moon Tides Hydrology Meteorology Conservation
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What two things cause Earth’s seasons?
ANSWER Astronomy $100
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Astronomy $100 What two things cause Earth’s seasons?
What is Earth’s revolution around the Sun and Earth’s tilt? HOME Astronomy $100
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Astronomy $200 What are the planets in order starting at the sun?
ANSWER Astronomy $200
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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
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How long does it take the Earth to make 1 complete rotation?
ANSWER Astronomy for $300
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How long does it take the Earth to make 1 complete rotation?
What is 24 hours or 1 day? HOME Astronomy for $300
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Astronomy $400 What model of the universe did Copernicus create?
ANSWER Astronomy $400
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Astronomy $400 What model of the universe did Copernicus create?
What is the heliocentric model? HOME Astronomy $400
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Which direction does a comet’s tail point?
ANSWER Astronomy $500
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Astronomy $500 Which direction does a comet’s tail point?
What is away from the Sun? HOME Astronomy $500
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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
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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
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What order are the Moon, Sun, and Earth during a lunar eclipse?
ANSWER Earth, Sun, Moon $200
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What order are the Moon, Sun, and Earth during a lunar eclipse?
What is Sun, Earth, and Moon? HOME Earth, Sun, Moon $200
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What is the next moon phase?
ANSWER Earth, Sun, Moon $300
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Earth, Sun, Moon $300 What is the next moon phase?
What is a waxing gibbous? HOME Earth, Sun, Moon $300
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What can people from Earth see during the first and last quarter phases?
ANSWER Earth, Sun, Moon $400
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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
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How is it possible that the moon can block out the sun during a solar eclipse?
ANSWER Earth, Sun, Moon $500
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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
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How many tide changes do we have in 1 day?
ANSWER Tides $100
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Tides $100 How many tide changes do we have in 1 day? What is four?
HOME Tides $100
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What causes tides? ANSWER Tides $200
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Tides $200 What causes tides?
What is the moon’s gravitational pull and to a lesser degree the Sun’s? HOME Tides $200
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What is the lowest high tide called?
ANSWER Tides $300
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Tides $300 What is the lowest high tide called? What is a neap tide?
HOME Tides $300
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Where does high tide occur?
ANSWER Tides $400
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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
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What causes spring tide to be the highest high tide?
ANSWER Tides $500
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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
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Hydrology $100 97.2% of the water on Earth is what type of water?
ANSWER Hydrology $100
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Hydrology $100 97.2% of the water on Earth is what type of water?
What is salt water? HOME Hydrology $100
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Hydrology $200 What is the name for an underwater mountain range?
ANSWER Hydrology $200
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Hydrology $200 What is the name for an underwater mountain range?
What is a mid-ocean ridge? HOME Hydrology $200
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hydrology $500 What are the two main causes of deep ocean currents?
ANSWER Hydrology $500
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Hydrology $500 What are the two main causes of deep ocean currents?
What are differences in temperature and salinity? HOME Hydrology $500
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Which climate zone is Georgia located in?
ANSWER Meteorology $100
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Meteorology $100 Which climate zone is Georgia located in?
What is the temperate climate zone? HOME Meteorology $100
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Meteorology $200 What effect does El Nino have on us in Georgia?
ANSWER Meteorology $200
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Meteorology $200 What effect does El Nino have on us in Georgia?
What is wetter weather? HOME Meteorology $200
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In which climate is there a higher rate of evaporation, therefore saltier oceans?
ANSWER Meteorology $300
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In which climate is there a higher rate of evaporation, therefore saltier oceans?
What is the tropical climate zone? HOME Meteorology $300
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Which layer of the atmosphere does weather occur in?
ANSWER Meteorology for $400
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Which layer of the atmosphere does weather occur in?
What is the troposphere? HOME Meteorology for $400
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What happens at dew point?
ANSWER Meteorology $500
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Meteorology $500 What happens at dew point?
What is water vapor condenses back into a liquid? HOME Meteorology $500
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What are three ways we can conserve soil?
ANSWER Conservation $100
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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
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What is it important to conserve non- renewable natural resources?
ANSWER Conservation $200
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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
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Conservation $300 What are three examples of renewable resources?
ANSWER Conservation $300
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Conservation $300 What are three examples of renewable resources?
What are wood, animals, air, sun, water, what, biomass, and wind? HOME Conservation $300
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Name three greenhouse gases?
ANSWER Conservation $400
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Conservation $400 Name three greenhouse gases?
What are carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and methane? HOME Conservation $400
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What is the Greenhouse Effect?
ANSWER Conservation $500
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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
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Explain the steps of how to find the mass of an cellphone
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