Earth and Space Jeopardy

Science Jeopardy
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Lithosphe
re

B
Hydrosph
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C
Atmosphe
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and
Beyond

Contaminati
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Final Jeopardy

A-100
ANSWER: These two layers make up
the lithosphere.
QUESTION: What are the crust
and the top of the upper mantle?

A-200
ANSWER: This dark component of
the soil is necessary to provide the
nutrients for plant life.
QUESTION: What is humus?

A-300
ANSWER: This characteristic of
the soil determines its buffering
capacity.
QUESTION: What is texture of
the soil?

A-400
ANSWER: This is the reason that
to explore northern Qubec, Mr.
Marchant takes a plane between
the months of September and May
but takes a helicopter during the
rest of the year.
QUESTION: What is the
permafrost in Northern
Quebec?

A-500
ANSWER: Fluorite is a type of
mineral that can be colourless,
white, yellow, blue, green, purple,
red or brown. Its streak is
colourless or very slightly tinted.
Some varieties are used to make
optical instruments.
QUESTION: What is an
allochromatic mineral?

B-100
ANSWER: The frozen portion of
Earths waters.
QUESTION: What is the
cryosphere?

B-200
ANSWER: Five forms of water in
the hydrosphere
QUESTION: What are oceans,
seas, rivers, lakes, ground
water, pack ice and glaciers

B-300
ANSWER: Created by their natural
boundaries, formed by the crests
of nearby mountains, hills or other
high ground
QUESTION: What are
watersheds or catchment
areas?

B-400
ANSWER: 4oC
QUESTION: What is the
average temperature at the
bottom of the ocean?

B-500
ANSWER: Cold water sinks while
warm water rises creating a
circular pattern that moves water
all over the world. This same
phenomenon can be seen in air
patterns.
QUESTION: What is
convection?

C-100
ANSWER: Composed of 78% N2
and 21% O2
QUESTION: What is the air?

C-200
ANSWER: The deviation of the
winds to the right in the Northern
Hemisphere.
QUESTION: What is the Coriolis
Effect?

C-300
ANSWER: A large expanse of air
that is moving in from Jamaica.
The weather network says to get
your umbrella out.
QUESTION: What is a warm
front?

C-400
ANSWER: This gas is a result of
many different agricultural
processes. Its effect is 21 times
greater than that of CO2
QUESTION: What is methane?

C-500
ANSWER: The name of the three
circulation cells in the Northern
Hemisphere
QUESTION: What are the
Hadley, Ferrel and Polar cells?

D-100
ANSWER: On October 23, 2007,
the space shuttle Discovery
blasted off from the Kennedy
Space Center, in Florida, to deliver
equipment to the International
Space Station. The had to fly
through these 5 layers.
QUESTION: What are the
Troposphere, stratosphere,
mesosphere, thermosphere

D-200
ANSWER: Results from the
nuclear fusion of hydrogen into
helium.
QUESTION: What is solar
radiation?

D-300
ANSWER: This is the difference in
water levels at high and low tides.
QUESTION: What is the tidal
range?

D-400
ANSWER: Caused by the
combined gravitational force of the
sun and moon
QUESTION: What are spring
tides?

D-500
ANSWER: solar radiation contains
all the waves in the EM spectrum
but only these waves reach the
Earth.
QUESTION: What are infrared
rays, ultraviolet rays and
visible light.

E-100
ANSWER: Acid rain is a serious
environmental problem brought on
by the reaction of these gases and
water.
QUESTION: What are sulphur
dioxide and nitrogen oxides?

E-200
ANSWER: The reason why oil
floats on water and is dangerous to
the wild life
QUESTION: What is a
hydrocarbon

E-300
ANSWER: These chemical are
responsible for the thinning of the
ozone layer.
QUESTION: What are CFCs
(chloroflurocarbons)?

E-400
ANSWER: These form when the
suns rays hit nitrogen oxides and
combine with other pollutants to
form smog.
QUESTION: What is
tropospheric ozone?

E-500
ANSWER: Thermal pollution can
have this effect.
QUESTION: What is decreases
oxygen solubility?

FINAL JEOPARDY
You are taking your younger
cousin to
the lake, however when you
arrive you see that there is a
sign saying no
swimming because of green
algae.
Can you explain to your cousin
why you cant go swimming
and the consequences to the
wild life in the lake?