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The Science ofWEATHER
JEOPARDY
JEOPARDY
Energy Heat Transfer Wind Air Masses
The making of
Rain
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Energy
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How many degrees is the earth tilted?
23.5 degrees
Energy
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What are the two causes of seasons?
1.Tilt of Earth2.Earth’s Revolution around the sun
Energy
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Word meaning seasons with equal hours of day
and night
Equinox
Energy
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Proper name for season with the most hours of daylight
Summer Solstice
Energy
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Our atmosphere is made of several gases. Certain ones like carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor are efficient at trapping heat. This trapping of heat is known asThe Greenhouse Effect
Heat Transfer
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The direct transfer of heat from the sunTo the earth is called:
Radiation
Heat Transfer
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The transfer of heat fromone object to another when one object touches the otherConduction
Heat Transfer
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The transfer of heat by themovement of fluids like airor water is called:
Convection
Heat Transfer
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What type of heat transfer getsheat throughout the entire troposphere?
Convection
Heat Transfer
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Using the 3 heat transfer termsdescribe how the atmosphere gets heated.1.Energy from sun radiates to the ground
2.The Ground conducts heat to air molecules3.Heated molecules rise up through convection
Wind
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As warm air rises it creates an area of low air pressure becauseit . . .
is less dense and weighs less
Wind
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What instrument is used tomeasure wind speed?
Anemometer
Wind
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Because of the rotation of the Earth, air returning to the equatorgets pushed off it’s course. This is called the . . .
Coriolis Effect
Wind
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It’s the horizontal movement
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Wind is the movement of air fromareas of high to areas of low pressure. What’s missing from this definition?
Wind
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At 30 degrees North Latitude there are no global winds. Which way is the air mostly moving there? Down
Air Masses
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An air mass of dry and cold air is called
Continental polar
Air Masses
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A humid warm air mass is called
Maritime Tropical
Air Masses300 Points
The place where two air masses meet but don’t mix is called the
Front
Air Masses
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What instrument is used to measure relative humidity?
psychrometer
Air Masses500
Air masses are bodies of air that have what 3 similar factors?
Temperature, humidity andPressure
The Making of Rain
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Liquid water becomes water vaporthrough the process of . . . evaporation
The Making of Rain
200
As warm moist air rises it cools.The water molecules come togetherin a process called.
Condensation
The making of rain
300
As humid air begins to condensesit forms
Clouds / Rain / Snow
The Making of Rain
400
For every thousand feet air risesit will decrease in temperature byhow many degrees Celsius? Three
The Making of Rain
500
Why do fierce thunderstorms occurin Florida daily between 1 and 3 This is the time of most direct light and so
the land is most heated there and rises quickly.
