Jeopardy VocabularyDefinitionListingClimate Zones DBQ $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500

$100 Question from C1 Hot air is heavier than cold air. TRUE or FALSE?

$100 Answer from C1 False. Warm air rises and cold air sinks. Back to Jeopardy

$200 Question from C1 Temperatures decrease as elevation increases. TRUE or FALSE?

$200 Answer from C1 TRUE Back to Jeopardy

$300 Question from C1 Our most diverse habitats are located in the highlands. TRUE or FALSE.

$300 Answer from C1 FALSE Tropical rain forests are our most diverse habitats. Back to Jeopardy

$400 Question from C1 The natural disasters most likely to occur in our area are: tornadoes, blizzards, and thunderstorms. TRUE or FALSE

$400 Answer from C1 TRUE Back to Jeopardy

$500 Question from C1 Reforestation in the term for cutting down forestland. TRUE or FALSE

$500 Answer from C1 FALSE. Deforestation is the term for cutting down forests. Reforestation is the term for planting new trees in the areas that were harvested. Back to Jeopardy

$100 Question from C2 The spread of desert like conditions

$100 Answer from C2 What is desertification? Back to Jeopardy

$200 Question from C2 A region’s average weather conditions over a long period.

$200 Answer from C2 What is climate? Back to Jeopardy

$300 Question from C2 The place where two air masses of different temperatures or moisture content meet.

$300 Answer from C2 What is a front? Back to Jeopardy

$400 Question from C2 Any material in nature that people use and value.

$400 Answer from C2 What are natural resources? Back to Jeopardy

$500 Question from C2 Non-renewable resources that formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals.

$500 Answer from C2 What are fossil fuels? Back to Jeopardy

$100 Question from C3 The definition of a rain shadow

$100 Answer from C3 What is a dry area on the mountainside facing away from the direction of the wind?. Back to Jeopardy

$200 Question from C3 Petroleum, coal, and natural gas

$200 Answer from C3 What are three types of fossil fuels? Back to Jeopardy

$300 Question from C3 The four factors that affect climate.

$300 Answer from C3 What are sun and location, wind, water, and mountains? Back to Jeopardy

$400 Question from C3 The latitudes located near the equator.

$400 Answer from C3 What are the lower latitudes? Back to Jeopardy

$500 Question from C3 They are renewable resources.

$500 Answer from C3 What are wind energy, solar energy, geothermal energy, and hydroelectric energy? Back to Jeopardy

$100 Question from C4 These three things are what geographers use to determine climate zones.

$100 Answer from C4 What are temperature, precipitation, and native plants? Back to Jeopardy

$200 Question from C4 These are the five major climate zones.

$200 Answer from C4 What are tropical, dry, temperate, polar, and highlands? Back to Jeopardy

$300 Question from C4 This sub-climate zone is located on east coasts and the interiors of the middle latitudes; there are four distinct seasons with mixed forests.

$300 Answer from C4 What is the humid continental sub-climate zone? Back to Jeopardy

$400 Question from C4 This sub-climate zone is in the polar regions with freezing cold temperatures; snow and ice, little precipitation and no vegetation.

$400 Answer from C4 What is the ice cap sub-climate zone? Back to Jeopardy

$500 Question from C4 This climate zone is located on and near the equator. It includes two sub-climate zones that are warm all year long.

$500 Answer from C4 What is the tropical climate zone? Back to Jeopardy

$100 Question from C5 Describe the location.

$100 Answer from C5 Back to Jeopardy

$200 Question from C5 Where is this place located and how do you know this?

$200 Answer from C5 Back to Jeopardy

$300 Question from C5 In regards to precipitation and temperature, what characteristics of climate can you observe?

$300 Answer from C5 Back to Jeopardy

$400 Question from C5 Based on your observations, which climate zone is this place located within? How do you know this?

$400 Answer from C5 Back to Jeopardy

$500 Question from C5 Name the sub-climate zone.

$500 Answer from C5 What is humid subtropical? Back to Jeopardy