2. Let's Play "The Atmosphere" Jeopardy
Don’t forget to say your answer in a form of a question!
GOOD LUCK
Here are the categories

4. Composition of Atmosphere

5. Structure of Atmosphere

6. Earth-Sun Relationships

7. Heat Transfer

8. The Sun

9. Temperature Controls

10. Composition of Atmosphere
Structure of Atmosphere
Earth-Sun Relationships
Heat Transfer
The Sun
Temperature Controls
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11. This is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
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12. What is Nitrogen?
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13. This compound in the stratosphere is responsible for protecting us from ultraviolet radiation.
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14. What is ozone?
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15. This is the layer of the atmosphere in which weather occurs.
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16. What is the troposphere?
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17. These are two gases responsible for the absorption of heat in the troposphere.
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18. What are (select 2) carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor?
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19. This is a term that describes the number of atmosphere molecules in a given space.
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20. What is density?
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21. This is what happens to the density, pressure, and temperature as you travel away from the Earth.
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22. What is to decrease?
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23. This is the force of atmosphere on you.
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24. What is air pressure?
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25. This is the layer where you find northern lights.
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26. What is the thermosphere?
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27. This is the characteristic that most obviously divides the atmospheric layers.
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28. What is temperature change?
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29. This is what happens to pressure as you increase temperature at the same latitude.
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30. What is increases?
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31. This motion is responsible for day and night.
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32. What is rotation?
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33. This motion is responsible for the changing seasons.
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34. What is revolution?
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35. This is responsible for the southern and northern hemispheres having opposite seasons.
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36. What is Earth’s tilt on its axis?
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37. Daily Double

38. This is the reason that Earth circles the Sun.
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39. What is gravity?
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40. This is the time of year when Earth is closest to the sun.
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41. What is January?
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42. This is the circular transfer of energy through a fluid.
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43. What is convection?
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44. This is how a metal spoon becomes hot after being left in a pan of boiling water.
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45. What is conduction?
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46. This is the direction that heat always transfers.
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47. What is from a warmer object to a cooler abject?
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48. As temperature increases, this is what happens to the movement of molecules.
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49. What is they move faster?
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50. All objects (even ice cubes) give off this sort of heat.
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51. What is radiation?
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52. This is a term for sunlight that is taken in by the earth before being released as heat.
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53. What is absorption?
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54. This is what happens when light bounces off an object and redirected out to space.
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55. What is reflection?
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56. This is the term for the outermost layer of the sun.
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57. What is the corona?
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58. This is when the gases in the atmosphere absorb energy and re-radiate it back to the Earth’s surface, supplying additional heat.
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59. What is the greenhouse effect?
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60. This solar feature can cause interruptions in Earth’s communications and navigation systems.
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61. What is solar wind?
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62. This relationship predicts this will happen to the temperature when traveling from lower to higher latitude.
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63. What is decrease?
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64. This is how clouds affect the temperature of the earth’s surface at night.
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65. What is it increases the temperature?
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66. This is the term for the lines on this map.
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67. What are isotherms?
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68. This is true about the heating of land compared with water.
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69. What is land heats and cools more rapidly than water?
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70. This is how the climate of the Southern Hemisphere differs from the Northern Hemisphere.
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71. What is that the Southern Hemisphere has milder summers and winters than the Northern?
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72. Final Game Questions
Temperature v. climate

73. This is the difference between weather and climate.

74. What is time? Weather is atmospheric conditions over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time.

75. And the winner is…..