JeopardyAir Pressure Humidity moving air Clouds Metric

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Final Jeopardy

Air Pressure100This is highest at sea level and lowest on Mount Everest.

What is air pressure?

Air Pressure200The higher you go, the more of this you have as air pressure decreases.

What is altitude?

Air Pressure 300This is caused by the constant motion of air molecules.

What is air pressure?

Air Pressure400

The air molecules are pushed closertogether at sea level.

Why is the air at sea level denser than air at high altitudes?

Air Pressure500

What is: the doldrums and the horse latitudes are the same because they are regions of calm that separate global wind belts. Winds in these regions are light and often change direction. They are different because the doldrums are a low-pressure zone in which air rises, and the horse latitudes are a high-pressure zone in which air sinks?

Compare and contrast the doldrums and the horse latitudes.

Humidity100Humidity.

What is how much water is in the air?

Humidity200

This air holds more water.

What is warmer air?

Humidity300The rate of condensation equals the rate of precipitation.

What happens when air becomes saturated?

Humidity400Two rooms have the same humidity. One room is cooler than the other. This room has the greater relative humidity.

What is the cooler room?

Humidity500This is why water forms on the outside of a glass of Ice Tea on a very warm day.

What is the warm air outside holds more water than the cooler air around the glass?

moving air

100

From areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.

Which way do winds move?

moving air200This causes a mountain breeze to form.

What is unequal heating and cooling of slopes and valleys?

moving air

300It causes the winds to curve to the right in the Northern Hemisphere.

How does the Coriolis effect influence global winds?

moving air

400

Doldrums, Horse Latitudes, Westerlies, Easterlies and Trade Winds

What are Global Winds?

moving air500

This causes the polar easterlies to flow away from polar regions.

What is all winds flow as air moves from high-pressure areas to low-pressure areas. The polar easterlies blow as air moves from the high-pressure, polar regions to low-pressure regions between the westerlies and easterlies?

Clouds100What clouds are made of.

What are millions of tiny water droplets?

Clouds

200Water drops combine and become heavy enough

to fall.

When does precipitation form?

Clouds

300Three things necessary for clouds to form.

What is are water, particulates, and low pressure?

Clouds

400It enters the air when plants release it from their leaves (transpiration) and when liquid water evaporates.

How does water vapor enter Earth's atmosphere?

Clouds500

When air cools to its dew point.

When do clouds form?

metric system100The number of milliliters in a liter.

What is 1,000ml?

metric system200The number of millimeters in five centimeters

What is 50mm?

metric system300The name for one thousand grams.

What is a kilogram?

metric system400The metric units for mass, distance and time. (in that order)

What are grams, meters, and seconds (minutes or hours)?

metric system500The number of miles in a 10K road race.

What is 6.2 miles?

Random facts100

The amount of mass something has compared to the amount of space that it takes up.

What is density?

Random facts200The role that trees play in the carbon cycle.

What is take in carbon dioxide (CO2) and release oxygen (O2)? Or, what is photosynthesis?

Random facts300The on going process by which Nitrogen is moved through the earth, living organisms, and the atmosphere.

What is the Nitrogen Cycle?

Random facts400Double zeros.

What do you get if you do not do class work or homework when Ms Dwyer has a Sub?

Random facts500The number of lives that Serge wanted to save in the movie “The Core”.

What is three, his wife and his two children?

Final Jeopardy

Use these terms to answer the following questions: cumulus clouds, weather, and altitude

Benjamin was planning a bike trip on a warm spring day. He looked out the window that morning and saw cumulus clouds in the sky.

1. What type of weather condition resulted in the formation of these clouds?

2. Can Benjamin expect any changes in the weather if the clouds reach higher altitudes?

3. Should he take any rain gear on his trip?

(Turn in to teacher with your score sheet when you are finished.)

1. Cumulus clouds usually form in the daytime during fair weather, when warm air rises vertically and then condenses as it cools.

2. If cumulus clouds reach higher altitudes, they can produce showers and

thunderstorms. 3. Benjamin should probably take a rain

jacket with him on his trip.