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Jeopardy Vocabulary Glaciers Arctic Antarctica Misc Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
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$100 Question from Vocabulary What is Albedo effect?
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$100 Answer from Vocabulary Reflectivy of the planet’s surface
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$200 Question from Vocabulary What is a forcing factor?
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$200 Answer from Vocabulary Feedback mechanisms such as ocean Temperature, currents, freshwater Flow, outside that climate system That can either amplify or reduce The impact of climate change
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$300 Question from vocabulary What is an ablation?
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$300 Answer from vocabulary The leading edge or “foot” of A glacier
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$400 Question from vocabulary What is a moraine?.
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$400 Answer from vocabulary Any glacially formed accumulation Of unconsolidated glacial debris (soil And rock) which can occur in currently Glaciated and formerly glaciated regions
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$500 Question from vocabulary What are paleo proxies?
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$500 Answer from vocabulary Tree rings, and cores from corals, Ice caps, and glaciers that provide data On oscillations in global temperatures
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$100 Question from Glaciers A n ice tunnel within a glacier?
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$100 Answer from Glacier Moulin
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$200 Question from Glacier A crack in a glacier is called a…?
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$200 Answer from Glacier Crevasse
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$300 Question from Glacier What are formed when a Glacier reaches the sea and breaks Up into chunks?
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$300 Answer from Glacier Ice bergs---90% in under water
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$400 Question from Glaciers When a glacier reaches the sea What process happens?
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$400 Answer from Glacier Calving
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$500 Question from Glaciers If the ice were to melt on Greenland’s glaciers the global Sea level would rise….?
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$500 Answer from Glaciers 20 feet
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$100 Question from Arctic What reservoir holds the greatest amount Of freshwater on Earth?
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$100 Answer from Arctic ICE---Ice sheets and Glaciers
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$200 Question from Arctic True or False The NW Passage has been Ice free since 2007 during the summer?
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$200 Answer from Arctic TRUE
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$300 Question from Arctic Why is albedo effect important To the Arctic?
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$300 Answer from Arctic Without reflecting the solar Energy, more ice would melt
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$400 Question from Arctic List some physical features Of the Arctic…
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$400 Answer from Arctic The Arctic Ocean is surrounded By continents, tundra ecosystem
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$500 Question from Arctic What are plants like in the Arctic?
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$500 Answer from Arctic Short, dwarf trees and plants; Dark in color to gather in as much Solar energy as possible; Fast grower
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$100 Question from Antarctica Where is most of the frozen Fresh water on the planet located?
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$100 Answer from Antarctica Antarctica
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$200 Question from Antarctica True or False= Ice sheets in Antarctica can Be up to 3 miles thick?
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$200 Answer from Antarctica True
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$300 Question from Antarctica Name a physical feature That Antarctica has that the Arctic does not.
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$300 Answer from Antarctica Southern Ocean surrounds The continent
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$400 Question from Antarctica What is the Human impact Like on Antarctica?
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$400 Answer from Carbon Cycle Only seasonal residents; no Known humanoid group Historically lived there
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$500 Question from Antarctica What are the plants like in Antarctica?
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$500 Answer from Antarctica None to speak up, just algae Under the ice
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$100 Question from Misc What shaped valley type Is created by glaciers?
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$100 Answer from Misc U-shaped
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$200 Question from Misc What is an erratic?
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$200 Answer from Misc A large rock that is carried on top Of a glacier and is deposited when The glacier recedes.
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$300 Question from Misc About what portion of the Earth’s Land area is covered by glaciers?
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$300 Answer from Misc 5%
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$400 Question from Misc Of the 3% fresh water, how much fresh water Is locked up in ice?
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$400 Answer from Misc 77%
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$500 Question from Misc What is permafrost?
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$500 Answer from Misc Soil at or below the freezing Point of water for two or More years—permanently frozen soil
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Final Jeopardy What is the human impact in the Arctic and Antarctica?
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Final Jeopardy Answer Arctic---drilling for oil; whale hunting Antarctica—minimal only 2,000 allowed on continent to conduct research
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