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5. 100 200 300 400 500 Atmosphere Water in the Air Air Masses and Fronts Severe Weather Pollution clouds

6. The atmosphere is made up of mostly ______. A 100

7. Nitrogen A 100

8. What force causes the Earth to have an atmosphere? A 200

9. Gravity A 200

10. What % of the atmosphere is Oxygen? A 300

11. 21% A 300

12. What are the 2 highest layers of the atmosphere? A 400

13. Mesosphere and Thermosphere A 400

14. Auroras are caused by electrically charged particles found in the ________. A 500

15. Ionisphere A 500

16. _______ is the amount of water vapor in the air. B 100

17. Humidity B 100

18. List the 5 types of precipitation B 200

19. Rain, Snow, Sleet, Hail, and Freezing Rain B 200

20. List the 4 steps of the water cycle B 300

21. Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Groundwater/Runoff B 300

22. The temperature at which the air becomes saturated is the _____ ________. B 400

23. Dew Point B 400

24. What is the tool used to measure relative humidity? B 500

25. psychrometer B 500

26. A Continental Tropical air mass means the air would be _______ & _______. C 100

27. Dry and Warm C 100

28. When a cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass, and the warm air is forced quickly upward C 200

29. Cold Front C 200

30. When a warm air mass meets a cold air mass, and neither one moves C 300

31. Stationary Front C 300

32. DAILY DOUBLE C 400 DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager

33. When two cold air masses meet and force a warm air mass between them to rise quickly upward C 400

34. Occluded Front C 400

35. Which type of front is associated with large amounts of rain and snow? C 500

36. Occluded Front C 500

37. What type of cloud produces a thunderstorm? D 100

38. Cumulonimbus D 100

39. In order to be considered a hurricane, winds must reach _____ km/hr D 200

40. 120 D 200

41. The most common type of lightning is __________ D 300

42. Cloud to cloud D 300

43. For a thunderstorm to be considered SEVERE, the winds must reach _______. D 400

44. 89 km/hr D 400

45. What is the name of the scale used to rank tornadoes by diameter and wind speed? D 500

46. Fujita Scale D 500

47. What are the 2 types of pollutants? E 100

48. Primary and secondary E 100

49. What is formed when ozone and vehicle exhaust react with sunlight? E 200

50. smog E 200

51. List 5 sources of indoor air pollution? E 300

52. Dry cleaning, faulty furnaces, cleaning chemicals, furniture, Gasoline E 300

53. The increase of soil’s acidity is ______. E 400

54. acidification E 400

55. In 1970, Congress passed the _________ that gives the ________ the authority to control the amount of air pollutants that can be released from any source E 500

56. Clean Air Act – Environmental Protection Agency E 500

57. A low puffy cloud F 100

58. cumulus F 100

59. A low stretched out cloud F 200

60. stratus F 200

61. A high cloud that is wispy F 300

62. cirrus F 300

63. The term “alto” means F 400

64. Medium Height F 400

65. What term means is or will produce precipitation? F 500

66. nimbus F 500

67. The Final Jeopardy Category is: Layers of the Atmosphere Please record your wager. Click on screen to begin

68. Which layer is the densest, and contains almost 90% of the atmosphere’s mass Click on screen to continue

69. Troposphere Click on screen to continue

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