CLIMATE JEOPARDY

Objectives:
 Show your understanding that Earth’s atmosphere and oceans distribute energy
from the sun, which results in different climates.
 To understand the importance of working as a team and exemplify mutual respect
 Enhance participation skills while practicing teamwork
 Apply concepts learned about Climatology and apply it into a fun and expressive
game setting

Rules:
 There will be 9 groups of 3
 Textbooks and notebooks are not allowed during Jeopardy. Your desks must be
cleared in order to start the game
 If your team has control of the game board you must pick a category and point
value
 When you and your team “buzz” in to answer, you must answer in the form of a
question such as:
“What is…”
Example: Q: This part of the water cycle forms clouds A: What is
condensation
 The dollar amount is the point value added to your game score. If you respond
correctly, or subtract from your game score if you respond incorrectly
o If your team answers correctly, you retain control of the board
o If your team answers incorrectly, another team may steal
 If the back-up team answers correctly, they receive the points and
gains control of the board
 Final Jeopardy:
o Your team must have a score greater than 0 to play
o Your team must make a minimum wager ($1) or the maximum wager
(current game score)
o Teams have 1 minute 30 seconds to respond
o Teams must write the answer on their white board

The categories include:

 Vocabulary
 Key Ideas
 What is Climate?
 The Tropics
 Temperate and Polar Zones
 Changes in Climate
 Final Jeopardy
 ANSWER KEY
Vocabulary
 $100 The average weather condition in an area over a long period of
time
 What is climate
 $200 A large region characterized by a specific type of climate and
certain type of plan and animal communities
 What is a biome
 $300 The zone that surrounds the equator and that extends from about
23.5 degrees North latitude to 23.5 degrees South latitude
 What is the tropical zone
 $400 A small area that has unique climate characteristics
 What is microclimate
 $500 A horizontal movement of ocean water that is used by wind and
that occurs at or near the ocean’s surface
 What is surface currents

Key Ideas
 $100 There are three climate zones of the world
 What is the tropical zone, temperate zone, and polar zone
 $200 Latitude, prevailing winds, mountains, large bodies of water, and
ocean currents determine…
 What is climate
 $300 This anomaly occurs when gases in the atmosphere trap thermal
energy and warm the earth
 What is the greenhouse effect
 $400 the period of climate could be caused by changes in Earth’s
orbit, in the tilt of the Earth’s axis, by plate tectonics, volcanic
eruptions or asteroid impacts
 What is an ice age
 $500 This tropical biome has less than 50 cm of precipitation a year
 What is the desert

What is climate?
 $100 These thin, horizontal lines circle the globe and effect climate
 What is latitude
 $200 Latitude and the tilt of the Earth determine
  What is seasons
 $300 I block prevailing winds and affect the climate on the other side
 What is mountains
 $400 Precipitation is more likely when the prevailing winds are
warmed from
 What is warm air
 $500 This zone is between 23.5 degrees N/S and 66.5 degrees N/S
 What is the tropical zone

The Tropics
 $100 The tropical zone is located between 0 degrees N/S and
 What is 23.5 degrees N/S
 $200 this biome has grasslands that have a dry season
 What is tropical savannas
 $300 This biome has the greatest number of plants and animal species
 What is the tropical rain forest
 $400 This biome contains tall grasses, trees, and thorny shrubs
 What is tropical savannas
 $500 This biome has an area with a temperature of 30-40 degrees
celcius and received 10 cm of rain this year
 What is the tropical desert

Temperate and Polar Zones

 $100 This zone has the coldest average temperature
 What is the polar zone
 $200 _________ have higher temperatures than the surrounding rural
areas because buildings and pavement absorb solar radiation instead
of reflecting it
 What is cities
 $300 This region has cool, wet winters and hot, dry summers
 What is chaparral regions
 $400 Birds migrate to this biome during the summer to feed on the
insects
 What is the tundra
 $500 The majority of the trees are evergreen needle-leaved trees
 What is conifers
Climate Change
 $100 A gradual increase in the average global temperature
  What is global warming
 $200 Sea level falls during this period
 What is glacial periods
 $300 Ice sheets are melting instead of advancing in this period
 What is the interglacial period
 $400 This catastrophic even causes dust, ash and smoke that blocks
the sun’s rays, which causes Earth to cool
 What is volcanic eruptions
 $500 This theory explains why ice age isn’t just one long cold spell
 What is the Milankovitch Theory

Final Jeopardy
 What are the two things Milankovitch says causes Ice Ages?
 What is the 1. Tilt of the Earth’s axis 2. Changes in the Earth’s
orbit