Climate Jeopardy
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- 1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Al Gore &His Beard Im aLumberjack Connor & GreenhouseGas Water World? How Big Is Your Footprint?
2. One cause of ______ may be deforestation. 3. Global Warming 4.
- A major influence on climate is
- Large bodies of water
- Large cities
- Ocean currents
- All of the above
5. D 6. When gas, oil, and coal are burned, __________ is added to the atmosphere. 7. Carbon Dioxide 8. Moderate temperatures are characteristics of _________________? 9. Temperate Zones 10. Seasons are caused by differences in daylight, temperatures, and weather patterns due to this. 11. The Tilt of the Earth as it revolves around the sun 12. Earth can be cooled greatly by ___________. 13. Volcanic Eruptions 14. If there are 24 consecutive hours of darkness, then it is ___________________? 15. Winter near a polar region 16. El Nino is a climate event that starts in the ______ and sets off changes in the atmosphere. 17. Tropical Pacific Ocean 18. Climate classification system divides regions according to _____,_______ & ______ 19. Temperature Amount of Precipitation Types of Plants found there 20. Geological records indicate ____________. 21. At times in the past 2 million years, glaciers covered large parts of the Earth. 22. During El Nino, trade winds that blow east to west weaken and sometimes ___________. 23. Reverse 24. Changes in the shape of Earths orbit around the sun ________________. 25. May happen over 100,000 year cycle. 26. Climate is different from weather in that it ______________. 27. Changes less frequently 28. A gas that increases the greenhouse effect is _______________. 29. Carbon Dioxide 30. If there were no greenhouse effect, Earths surface would _________________? 31. Be too cool for life to exist 32. Earths atmosphere is warmed by the greenhouse effect because heat radiated from Earths surface is ________ by gasses in the atmosphere. 33. Absorbed 34. What region is in the center of the Earth? 35. Tropics 36. What region extends from 66.5 degrees north latitude to the North Pole? 37. Polar Zones 38. What region is sandwiched between the tropical zone and the polar zone? 39. Temperate Zone 40. Climate is the weather_________? 41. Of a region, averaged over a long period of time 42. The rays of the Sun strike Earth more directly ________? 43. At the Equator 44. Behavior in which animals greatly reduce activity in winter 45. Hibernation 46. Which zone receives the most solar radiation? 47. Tropics 48. Climatologists use a classification system developed in 1918 by __________. 49. Koppen 50. Which zone has the greatest change in the amount of daylight and darkness? 51. Polar Zones