1. Miscellaneous Earth’s Waters
Science Jeopardy
The Water Planet I
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Ocean Systems I
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3. The Water Planet I 100
ANSWER: The three major processes that make up the water cycle.
QUESTION: What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?

4. The Water Planet I 200
ANSWER: An increase in nutrients in a lake or pond which causes increased growth of algae and plants.
QUESTION: What is eutrophication?

5. The Water Planet I 300
ANSWER: The three things needed for an aquifer to form.
QUESTION: What are a layer of permeable material, impermeable rock, and a water source?

6. The Water Planet I 400
ANSWER: A well in which water flows to the surface naturally because it is under pressure.
QUESTION: What is an artesian well?

7. The Water Planet I 500
ANSWER: An iceberg is made of 1000 cubic meters of ice. How much of the ice is underwater?
QUESTION: What is 875 cubic meters?

8. The Water Planet II 100
ANSWER: The percentage of fresh water on Earth at any given time.
QUESTION: What is 3%?

9. The Water Planet II 200
ANSWER: The percentage of fresh water that is frozen as ice.
QUESTION: What is 70%?

10. The Water Planet II 300
ANSWER: The top of the region that is saturated, or completely filled with water.
QUESTION: What is the water table?

11. The Water Planet II 400
ANSWER: The rising and sinking of cold and warm water layers in a lake.
QUESTION: What is turnover?

12. The Water Planet II 500
ANSWER: The 2 nutrients that increase algae growth in the process of eutrophication.
QUESTION: What are nitrogen and phosphorus?

13. Ocean Systems I 100
ANSWER: The three layers of ocean water.
QUESTION: What are the surface layer, the thermocline, and the deep water.

14. Ocean Systems I 200
ANSWER: This carries oxygen-rich water down from the surface and this brings up nutrients from the deep ocean.
QUESTION: What are downwelling and upwelling?

15. Ocean Systems I 300
ANSWER: The difference in height between a high tide and the next low tide.
QUESTION: What is tidal range?

16. Ocean Systems I 400
ANSWER: El Nino may last for this range of time.
QUESTION: What is 12 to 18 months?

17. Ocean Systems I 500
ANSWER: The eight features found on the ocean floor.
QUESTION: What are submarine canyons, continental shelf, continental slope, ocean trenches, abyssal plain, mid-ocean ridge, volcanic islands, and seamounts.

18. Ocean Systems II 100
ANSWER: A measure of the amount of matter packed into a given volume.
QUESTION: What is density?

19. Ocean Systems II 200
ANSWER: Two gases that can be found in ocean water.
QUESTION: What are nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide?

20. Ocean Systems II 300
ANSWER: A system that uses sound waves to measure distances and locate objects.
QUESTION: What is sonar?

21. Ocean Systems II 400
ANSWER: Two drawbacks for the use of tidal dams to produce energy.
QUESTION: What are few places are suitable for such dams, the time of day, and tidal dams may harm ocean life?

22. Ocean Systems II 500
ANSWER: The instrument or tool that scientists use to test the salinity of ocean water.
The QUESTION: What is a hydrometer?

23. Miscellaneous Earth's Waters 100
ANSWER: The feature represented by the letter B.
QUESTION: What is a drainage basin? B A

24. Miscellaneous Earth's Waters 200
ANSWER: The feature of the wave identified by the arrow.
QUESTION: What is the trough?

25. Miscellaneous Earth's Waters 400
ANSWER: The feature identified by the arrow.
QUESTION: What is abyssal plain?

26. Miscellaneous Earth's Waters 300
ANSWER: The feature identified by the arrow.
QUESTION: What is a seamount?

27. Miscellaneous Earth's Waters 500
ANSWER: This person floated on a wooden raft from South America to Polynesia using only ocean currents.
QUESTION: Who is Thor Heyerdahl?

28. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The Ogallala aquifer in North America stretches 450,000 km2 from these 2 states.
QUESTION: What is South Dakota and Texas?

29. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The number of times that Old Faithful shoots a jet of hot water and steam each day.
QUESTION: What is 20?

30. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The length, in miles, of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
QUESTION: What is 1250 miles?

31. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The number of gallons of water needed to produce a single hamburger.
QUESTION: What is 1300 gallons?