1. Jeopardy Weather

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3. What is the process by which plants give off water vapor into the air? Answer

4. 100 points transpiration Back to Grid

5. What is the changing of a liquid to a gas? Answer

6. 200 points evaporation Back to Grid

7. Water vapor is water in the form of a … Answer

8. 300 points gas Back to Grid

9. Water vapor in the air comes mostly from … Answer

10. 400 points the oceans Back to Grid

11. What is the result when a gas changes into a liquid? Answer

12. 500 points condensation Back to Grid

13. What does capacity mean? Answer

14. 100 points amount of material that something can hold Back to Grid

15. The actual amount of water in the air is known as… Answer

16. 200 points Specific humidity Back to Grid

17. When something is saturated it is… Answer

18. 300 points filled to capacity Back to Grid

19. The amount of water vapor that air can hold changes with the … Answer

20. 400 points temperature Back to Grid

21. Warmer air can hold _______ water vapor than cold air. Answer

22. 500 points more Back to Grid

23. Name and describe three types of clouds. Answer

24. 100 points cirrus-light feathery cumulus-big and puffy stratus-form layers across the sky Back to Grid

25. The term for the temperature at which condensation takes place is… Answer

26. 200 points dew point Back to Grid

27. What are three types of precipitation? Answer

28. 300 points rain snow hail Back to Grid

29. What is the name of the instrument used to measure rainfall? Answer

30. 400 points rain gauge Back to Grid

31. Precipitation may be a liquid or a ________ Answer

32. 500 points solid Back to Grid

33. A large area of air that has the same temperature and amount of moisture… Answer

34. 100 points air mass Back to Grid

35. Where do tropical and polar air masses form? Answer

36. 200 points tropical form near the equator (warm regions) polar form near Canada (cold regions) Back to Grid

37. Molecules in a liquid are always… Answer

38. 300 points moving Back to Grid

39. What changes when a front moves in? Answer

40. 400 points the weather Back to Grid

41. Air masses that form over land are always… Answer

42. 500 points dry Back to Grid

43. Name three characteristics of a tornado. Answer

44. 100 points small violent funnel-shaped Back to Grid

45. Compare an air mass and a front. Answer

46. 200 points An air mass stays over an area for a while or moves slowly; it is very large. A front is the forward edge of an air mass. Back to Grid

47. What causes lightning? Answer

48. 300 points Giant storm clouds give off electricity. Back to Grid

49. High pressure regions usually have what two characteristics? Answer

50. 400 points clear skies and cool temperatures Back to Grid

51. What is a line on a weather map that connects points of equal pressure? Answer

52. 500 points isobar Back to Grid