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Final Jeopardy
Weather or Sunshine on
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My Shoulders
Cloudy
Days
Current
Movements
Solar Power
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Makes up about
78 percent of dry
air
What is nitrogen?
This happens to
air pressure and
density as altitude
increases
What is both
decrease?
Most weather
takes place here
What is the
troposphere?
Region(s) having
temperatures
cooler than those
near the equator
What are
temperate and
polar zones?
Weather system
with a center of low
pressure
What is a cyclone?
This causes Earth’s
day and night
What is the Earth
rotating?
One Earth orbit is
also one …
What is a year
or a revolution?
Earth’s atmosphere
is heated mainly by
this
What is energy
reradiated by
Earth’s surface?
Air masses forming
over water contain
more of this than
masses formed over
land
What is moisture?
The two main
factors determining
a region’s climate
What are
temperature and
precipitation?
A cloud is a dense,
visible mass of this
What are tiny
water droplets or
ice crystals?
Low, flat clouds
that often cover the
sky and produce
rain
What are
nimbostratus
clouds?
The three basic
cloud types
What are stratus,
cumulus, and
cirrus?
An example of a
natural, long-term
climate change
What is an ice age?
Affects a region’s
temperature
What are latitude,
altitude, ocean
currents and
nearness to ocean?
List of latitude
zones from N to S
What are polar,
temperate, tropic,
temperate, polar?
Example of a
global wind
What are
westerlies, trade
winds, polar
easterlies?
Daily breezes in a
city near the ocean
What are local
winds?
Type of non-moving
front formed by 2
unlike air masses
What is a
stationary front?
A cold front forms
when a cold air
mass collides with
this
What is a warm air
mass? (the warm air
is then pushed up)
Location of the
ozone layer
What is the upper
stratosphere?
Percentage of solar
energy that is
absorbed by the
Earth
What is 50
percent?
Where a maritime
tropical air mass
might affect U.S.
weather
What is the Gulf of
Mexico?
Air mass that
forms over land
north of 50 degrees
North latitude
What is a
continental polar
air mass?
Pattern of weather
over many years in
a region
What is its
climate?
Make your wager
o
2C
If temp is
at
500m altitude, the
temp at 2500m.
o
(6.5 C fall per km)
2500-500 = 2000m =
2km
2x6.5 =
o
2C
-
o
13 C
o
13 C
lower
=-
o
11 C