Transcript Jeopardy.Unit5.answers

Unit 5 Test Review
Heat Transfer
Water Cycle
Breezes
Atmosphere
Weather
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If a coastal area has constantly cool
temperatures and climate, this must
mean…
A. It always has land breezes.
B. It always has sea breezes.
C. There must be cold ocean currents
in that area.
D. There must be warm ocean currents
in that area.
Category 1 – 100 points
C
Evaporation occurs because of which
form of heat transfer?
A. radiation.
B. conduction.
C. convection.
D. None of the above.
Category 1 – 200 points
A
What would make a Hurricane change
its path, or push it another direction?
A. Dolphins or Shamu.
B. Warm air/water would cause it to
weaken.
C. High pressure system could divert
a storm.
D. Earth’s magnetic field.
Category 1 – 300 points
C
ID the following as CONDUCTION,
CONVECTION, or RADIATION?
A. Feet on hot sidewalk.
B. Sun heated the sidewalk.
C. I can see “waves” in the air above the
sidewalk.
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COND
RAD
CONV
What drives the water cycle?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Heat from the sun.
The flapping of bird’s wings.
Dinosaur pee.
Humans processes and filtering
water.
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A
Which describes transpiration as part
of the water cycle?
A. Sweating by rocks.
B. Water vapor released by
plants/trees.
C. Snow, rain, sleet, hail.
D. Water flowing off of a mountain.
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B
Infiltration is…
A. When water turns into water vapor.
B. When water is soaked into the
ground.
C. When water vapor condenses into
clouds.
D. When trees release water vapor.
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B
Clouds are best described
as…
A. transpiration.
B. evaporation.
C. condensation.
D. precipitation.
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C
Infiltration is…
A. When trees soak up water.
B. When precipitation soaks into
the ground.
C. Snow on the top of a
mountain.
D. Streams on land.
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B
What “transpires” in the water
cycle?
A. animals.
B. trees/plants.
C. fish.
D. nothing.
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B
What causes sea breezes?
A. When the land heats up during the day,
rises, and pulls the cool air from over the
water.
B. When the sea heats up during the day
and the air begins to blow over the land.
C. When the land and sea heat up and
causes air currents.
D. None of the above.
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A
Breezes are mainly caused by…
A. Uneven heating of earth that causes
convection currents.
B. Water changes temperatures more
easily than land causing convection
currents.
C. Land temperature varies due to the
Coriolis Effect.
D. Seasonal changes and water vapor.
Category 3 – 200 points
A
If the land temperature is higher than
the water, and rising, what time of
day and breeze would that mean?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Land breeze; early morning.
Land breeze; mid-day.
Sea breeze; mid-day.
Sea breeze; nighttime.
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C
Distinct global wind patterns are
caused by…
A. Seasons.
B. Land and Sea Breezes.
C. Coriolis Effect.
D. Hurricanes.
Category 3 – 400 points
C
Land and Sea breezes can affect the
weather and climate of an area because
they carry the temperature of …
A. The surrounding sunlight.
B. The hot breaths of living things.
C. The temperature of the nearby
bodies of water and currents.
D. They do not affect climate.
Category 3 – 500 points
C
What causes the top of a mountain
to be covered in snow?
A. lower pressure system.
B. lower temperatures.
C. higher pressure forecast.
D. warmer precipitation.
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B
In which direction does the jet
stream flow across the United
States?
A. South to North.
B. North to South.
C. East to West.
D. West to East.
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D
If the ozone layer were to thin, what
would be increased, or most
affected?
A. Evaporation.
B. Volcanic islands.
C. Waves on hot beaches.
D. Erosion from groundwater.
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A
What is the outermost layer of
the atmosphere, rarely seen on
diagrams?
A. Exosphere.
B. Thermosphere.
C. Mesosphere.
D. Space.
Category 4 – 400 points
A
Which layer of the atmosphere
has the greatest temperature
fluctuation?
A. Exosphere.
B. Thermosphere.
C.Stratosphere.
D.Troposphere.
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B
If a weather map has a blue line with flags
rapidly moving towards Tennessee, what type
of weather will most likely occur there?
A. Warm, wet.
B. Cold, cloudy.
C. No changes.
D. Thunderstorms, warm.
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B
Weather is different from climate
because…
A. Weather is usually rainy.
B. Climate is when temperatures
“climb”.
C. Climate and weather are the same.
D. Weather is day-to-day.
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D
Hurricanes and tornadoes are the
same?
A. TRUE.
B. FALSE.
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B
Cold fronts are usually from
the …
A.
B.
C.
D.
South East.
South West.
North East.
North West.
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D
Jet Streams can be found going
across the Northern US, 10 km into
the atmosphere. Planes use this
because…
A.
B.
C.
D.
It usually gives them much faster flight
times from West to East.
It gives good practice for co-pilots.
It runs in both directions across the US.
None of the above.
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A