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With your hosts: Ms. Moreno & Mr. Carbonell
Science Chapter 8 With your hosts: Ms. Moreno & Mr. Carbonell
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Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 Category 5 100 200 300 400 500
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An instrument used to measure rainfall is called a
Category An instrument used to measure rainfall is called a
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Category 1– 100 Rain Gauge
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Category Differences in _____________ cause winds.
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Category Air Pressure
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Category Name the three main types of clouds.
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Cirrus, cumulus, stratus
Category 1-300 Cirrus, cumulus, stratus
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Category Maritime air masses form over …
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Category Water
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Category What does a psychrometer measure?
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Category 1– 500 Relative Humidity
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Category The center of a hurricane is called the…
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Category 2– 100 Eye
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Category Cyclones are centers of _____ pressure. CHECK
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Category 2– 200 Low
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Category Tornadoes form in ___________ clouds.
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Category 2– 300 Cumulonimbus
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Category Hailstones form only in … clouds.
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Category 2 – 400 cumulonimbus
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Category Hail forms in _________ time while sleet forms in ____________ time.
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Category 2 – 500 Hail: summer Sleet : winter
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Category A front is the boundary where air masses …
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Category 3 – 100 Meet/Collide
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Category Snow falls when humid air cools below _______ degrees Celsius.
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Category 3 – 200 Zero
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Category A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that forms over _________ ocean water.
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Category 3– 300 warm
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Category You will have to move the Daily Double picture out of the way to write the question. If you do not wish to have the Daily Double in the game, delete it and the sound clip (speaker) from this slide. For a Daily Double, the contestant has to wager at least $5 and at most the highest point value of any player/team at that point in the game. It is considered a True Daily Double if they wager all of their points and go “double or nothing”. __________ is the measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
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Category 3 – 400 Humidity
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Category ___________ front are where cold and warm air masses meet, but neither can move.
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Category 3– 500 Stationary
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Category An __________ is a huge body of air that has the same temperature, humidity, and air pressure.
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Category 4 – 100 Air Mass
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Category The most common type of precipitation is…
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Category 4 – 200 Rain
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Category A continental air mass forms over …
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Category 4– 300 Land
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Category A high-pressure center of dry air is an …
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Category 4– 400 Anti-cyclone
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Category Weather patterns on the Great Plains result in …
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Category 4 – 500 Tornado Alley
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Category Bands of high-speed winds above Earth’s surface are called …
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Category 5– 100 Jet Stream
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Category 5-200 Meteorologists can accurately predict the weather a month in advance. (true or false)
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Category 5– 200 False.
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Category The storms that produce the highest winds are …
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Category 5 – 300 Tornadoes
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Category Lines on a weather map that join places the same air pressure are …
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Category 5 – 400 Isobar
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Category Which type of clouds are made mostly of ice crystals?
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Category 5 – 500 Cirrus
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FINAL JEOPARDY CATEGORY: Storms
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What was Steve Carrell missing?
FINAL JEOPARDY What was Steve Carrell missing?
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FINAL JEOPARDY Legs
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