1. 10 20 30 40 50 3rd Quarterly- 6th Grade Science Jeopardy Review
Weather and the Layers of Atmosphere
Water Cycle and Wind
Clouds and Precipitation
Air Masses and Fronts
Weather Instruments 10 20 30 40 50

2. Question: Identify at least 4 gases in Earth’s atmosphere
10 points
Question: Identify at least 4 gases in Earth’s atmosphere
Answer: Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, ozone, methane, water vapor, argon

3. Answer: Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Troposphere
20 points
Question: Identify the layers of our atmosphere from highest to lowest altitude.
Answer: Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Troposphere

4. Answer: Ozone in the stratosphere
30 points
Question: The earth is protected from ultraviolet radiation by 1) what gas, 2) in which layer of atmosphere?
Answer: Ozone in the stratosphere

5. 40 points
Question: What is the relationship between temperature and altitude in each of the layers of atmosphere?
Answer:
Troposphere- altitude increases and temperature decreases
Stratosphere- altitude and temperature both increase
Mesosphere- altitude increases and tempearture decreases
Thermosphere- altitude and temperature both increase

6. 50 points
Question: Identify something you might find in each layer of atmosphere.
Answer:
Troposphere- planes, Stratosphere- ozone, Mesosphere- meteorites, Thermosphere- spaceships, Exosphere- satellites

7. 10 points Question: Identify each of the 5 steps in the water cycle
Answer: Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, collection

8. Answer: High pressure, Low pressure
20 points
Question: Air always moves from areas of ______________to areas of _______________.
Answer: High pressure, Low pressure

9. 30 points
Question: How does the wind direction differ during land breeze and sea breeze?
Answer:
Land Breeze = air moves towards the land
Sea Breeze = air moves towards the sea

10. 40 points
Question: Identify two differences between global winds and surface winds?
Answer: Global winds- larger, coriolis effect, jet stream
Surface winds- smaller, no coriolis effect

11. 50 points Answer: cT- dry and warm – warm front
Question: Identify each type of air mass and the characteristics that each would have. Then, reveal what fronts you would find with each of them.
Answer: cT- dry and warm – warm front
cP- dry and cold – cold front
mP- moist and cold – cold front
mT- moist and warm – warm front
cA- dry and very cold – arctic front

12. Question: What does the word ‘cumulus’ describe about a cloud?
10 points
Question: What does the word ‘cumulus’ describe about a cloud?
Answer: Shape

13. 20 points Question: Identify the three types of cloud shapes.
Answer: cumulus, stratus, and cirrus

14. 30 points
Question: What controls the type of precipitation that falls?
Answer: Air temperature

15. 40 points
Question: How does the amount of time precipitation lasts for in a cold front compare to that of a warm front?
Answer: Precipitation lasts for a short time in a cold front, and a long time in a warm front.

16. 50 points
Question: What are 4 unique differences between hail and rain?
Answer: Rain is liquid, Hail is ice
Hail forms from updrafts, Rain simply falls
Hail is made of layers of ice, Rain has no layers
Hail is heavier than rain

17. 10 points Question: What are the two properties of air masses?
Answer: moisture and temperature

18. Answer: Continental/Maritime, and Tropical/Polar
20 points
Question: What words are used to describe the amount of moisture and temperature in an air mass?
Answer: Continental/Maritime, and Tropical/Polar

19. Answer: Stationary Front
30 points
Question: What type of front results when two air masses slide past each other?
Answer: Stationary Front

20. 40 points
Question: Describe where each of the air masses originates form, and what type of front might be associated with each: continental polar, martime tropical.
Answer:
Continental Polar: over land at high latitude, and a cold front
Maritime Tropical: over the ocean at lower latitude, and a warm front

21. 50 points
Question: In at least four unique ways, how do cold front differ from warm fronts?
Answer: Temperature, precipitation, storms produced, duration of precipitation, shape of front

22. Question: Which weather instrument measures the air pressure?
10 points
Question: Which weather instrument measures the air pressure?
Answer: Barometers

23. 20 points
Question: What is the weather intrument and units used to measure air temperaure
Answer: Thermometer

24. 30 points
Question: When measuring relative humidity, what is the % humidity being measured “relative” to?
Answer: Temperature

25. Question: Identify six (6) weather instruments and their functions.
40 points
Question: Identify six (6) weather instruments and their functions.
Answer:
Barometer- air pressure, Thermometer- temperature, Anemometer- wind speed, Wind Vane- wind direction
Sling Psychorometer- relative humidity, Rain Gauge- liquid precipitation

26. 1) the stalk would point up to the North
50 points
Question: If a wind vane pointed south, 1) how would this be shown on a station model, and 2) in what directions would you find the high and low pressure systems?
Answer:
1) the stalk would point up to the North
2) The high pressure would be to the North, while the low pressure is to the South.