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Science Jeopardy
Fronts
Air masses
Hurricanes
Grab Bag
Thunderstorms
& Tornadoes
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Final Jeopardy
Rules
(1) White numbers indicate that Answer has already been
selected.
(2) You must answer in the form “What is…”
(3) While it is another teams turn, you may record the answer
to the question on your white board. If the other team fails to
answer the question, all other teams with the correct answer on
their white board will earn 50 points.
(4) You may not talk during another teams turn. If you talk
you will not be eligible for extra points.
(5) During Final Jeopardy you may not risk more points than
you have.
©Norman Herr, 2003
A-100
• ANSWER: In this front cold air
pushes on warm air sending it up
quickly and causing thunderstorms
• QUESTION: What is a cold front?
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A-200
• ANSWER: During a warm front, we
experience this type of weather.
• QUESTION: What is steady rain?
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A-300
• ANSWER: This occurs when air masses
meet and stop moving.
• QUESTION: What is a stationary front?
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A-400
• ANSWER: This is the reason most cold
fronts come for the northwest
• QUESTION: What is cold air forms at
the poles and the westerlies move the cold
air east?
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A-500
• ANSWER: This is the reason cold fronts
cause thunderstorms.
• QUESTION: What is the warm, moist air
shoots up quickly and condenses into
storm clouds?
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B-100
• ANSWER: These are the characteristics
of a maritime polar air mass
• QUESTION: What are moist and cold?
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B-200
• ANSWER: This air mass is dry and
warm.
• QUESTION: What is continental
tropical?
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B-300
• ANSWER: These two characteristics
describe an air mass.
• QUESTION: What is temperature and
humidity?
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B-400
• ANSWER: This describes what happens
when a tropical and polar air mass meet
and stall.
• QUESTION: What is a stationary front?
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B-500
• ANSWER: This explains why tropical air
masses and thus warm fronts come from
the southwest.
• QUESTION: What is warm air forms
near the equator and the westerlies move
them east across the US?
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C-100
• ANSWER: Hurricanes from in this type
of system
• QUESTION: What is low pressure?
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C-200
• ANSWER: Hurricanes form over… and
near the …
• QUESTION: What is over the ocean and
near the equator?
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C-300
• ANSWER: These are the two reasons
hurricanes cause flooding.
•QUESTION: What is heavy rain and storm
surges?
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C-400
• ANSWER: This is the strongest part of
the hurricane.
• QUESTION: What is the eye wall?
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C-500
• ANSWER: This describes the movement
of air and conditions in the eye of the
hurricane.
• QUESTION: What is downward and
calm?
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D-100
• ANSWER: This describes the weather in
a high pressure system
• QUESTION: What is calm and clear?
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D-200
• ANSWER: This describes the movement
of air in a high pressure system.
• QUESTION: What is clockwise and
downward?
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D-300
• ANSWER: This is a description of the motion of air in
a low pressure system.
• QUESTION: What is rising, moving inward
counterclockwise
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D-400
• ANSWER: These air masses are
responsible for blizzards.
• QUESTION: What are continental
polar?
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D-500
• ANSWER: This is the reason thunder
occurs during a thunderstorm.
• QUESTION: What is lightning super
heats the air, creating a massive sound
wave?
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E-100
• ANSWER: This type of front forms
thunderstorms
• QUESTION: What is a cold front?
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E-200
• ANSWER: These are three effects of
thunderstorms.
• QUESTION: What are heavy rain, heavy
wind, lightning, thunder, tornadoes?
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E-300
• ANSWER: These tornadoes are the least
common.
• QUESTION: What are the most violent
tornados that destroy buildings and last
more than 2 hours.
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E-400
• ANSWER: Lightning produces these two
forms of energy
• QUESTION: What is light and sound?
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E-500
• ANSWER: This describes how
thunderstorms form.
• QUESTION: What is warm moist air
rises quickly during an updraft and
forms precipitation during the
downdraft.
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FINAL JEOPARDY
• ANSWER: This explains why warms
fronts cause steady rain and cold fronts
cause thunderstorms.
• QUESTION: What is cold fronts cause
warm air to rise quickly and form storm
clouds? Warm fronts move slowly and
cause air to rise slowly.
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