Transcript Return $200 Question Topic 1

Welcome to Science class.
Topic 1
Fronts
Topic 2
Winds
Topic 3
Weather
Topic 4
Vocabulary
Topic 5
Fossil Fuels
Topic 6
Miscellaneous
Jeopardy
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question Topic 1
The term for a cold air mass that meets and pushes a
Warm air mass out of its way.
$100 Answer Topic 1
What is a cold front?
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$200 Question Topic 1
The type of front that begins with drizzly precipitation
and is followed by warm, clear, sunny weather.
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What is a warm front?
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$300 Question Topic 1
The type of front that forms when a warm air mass
is trapped between tow cold air masses and is forced to
rise.
$300 Answer Topic 1
What is an occluded front?
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$400 Question Topic 1
The type of front that occurs when a warm air mass
meets and rises over a cold air mass
replacing the cold air mass.
$400 Answer Topic 1
What is a warm front?
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$500 Question Topic 1
The front that forms when a warm air mass meets a
cold air mass and neither has enough force to push
the other out of the way.
$500 Answer Topic 1
What is a stationary front?
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$100 Question Topic 2
A breeze that is created at night when the cool air from a
mountain top sinks into the valley below.
$100 Answer Topic 2
What is a mountain breeze?
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$200 Question Topic 2
The local wind caused by cool air moving from the land
towards the water.
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What is a land breeze?
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$300 Question Topic 2
The local wind caused by cool air moving from
the sea towards the land.
$300 Answer Topic 2
What is a sea breeze?
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$400 Question Topic 2
The local wind that is created during the day
when the warm air from the valley
moves up toward the mountain.
$400 Answer Topic 2
What is a valley breeze?
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$500 Question Topic 2
The name for winds that generally move short
distances and can blow from any direction.
$500 Answer Topic 2
What are local winds?
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$100 Question Topic 3
The lines on a weather map that connect points of
equal pressure.
$100 Answer Topic 3
What are isobars?
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$200 Question Topic 3
The term for a small, intense weather system capable of
producing strong winds, heavy rain, lightning and thunder.
$200 Answer Topic 3
What is a thunderstorm?
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$300 Question Topic 3
The weather associated with a low pressure system.
$300 Answer Topic 3
What is cloudy weather?
Rainy?
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$400 Question Topic 3
The type of weather associated with a
high pressure system.
$400 Answer Topic 3
What is clear weather?
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$500 Question Topic 3
The phenomena that are caused by the cyclical heating
and cooling of the Pacific Ocean.
$500 Answer Topic 3
What are El Nino and La Nina?
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$100 Question Topic 4
The term for the boundary between two different air masses.
$100 Answer Topic 4
What is a front?
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$200 Question Topic 4
The term for a prediction of the weather conditions
over the next three to five days.
$200 Answer Topic 4
What is a weather forecast?
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$300 Question Topic 4
The term for a person who studies the weather.
$300 Answer Topic 4
What is a meteorologist?
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$400 Question Topic 4
The term for drilling for oil or natural gas that is located
Beneath the ocean floor.
$400 Answer Topic 4
What is offshore drilling?
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$500 Question Topic 4
The term for the place where crude oil
is processed into other products,
such as kerosene and gasoline.
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What is a refinery?
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$100 Question Topic 5
The fossil fuel that is formed from the remains of plants.
$100 Answer Topic 5
What is coal?
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$200 Question Topic 5
Fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and
petroleum are burned as part of this cycle.
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What is the carbon cycle?
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$300 Question Topic 5
The term for the burning of fossil fuels.
$300 Answer Topic 5
What is combustion?
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$400 Question Topic 5
Most of the carbon released in the carbon cycle ends up here.
$400 Answer Topic 5
What is the atmosphere?
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$500 Question Topic 5
The term for a resource that is being used up
at a rate much faster than it is being created.
$500 Answer Topic 5
What is a non-renewable resource?
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$100 Question Topic 6
The thing created by the
uneven heating of the earth by the sun,
which creates pressure differences around the globe.
$100 Answer Topic 6
What is wind?
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$200 Question Topic 6
The term for the gradual increase
in temperatures around the globe.
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What is global warming?
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$300 Question Topic 6
The gas that helps to increase the greenhouse
effect which raises global temperatures.
$300 Answer Topic 6
What is carbon dioxide?
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$400 Question Topic 6
The latitude of the doldrums.
$400 Answer Topic 6
What is 0* which is at the equator?
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$500 Question Topic 6
The term for the motion of the earth turning on its axis.
$500 Answer Topic 6
What is rotation?
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Final Jeopardy Topic
• Seasons
Final Jeopardy Question
• The term for the day of the year when
the hours of darkness are equal to the
hours of daylight.
Final Jeopardy Answer
• What is an equinox?
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