Grade 10 Academic Science – Climate Jeopardy-Bingo

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The usual pattern of weather in a region over a long period

of time

Climate

Where “weather happens,” The atmospheric level that is

composed of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen (O2), 0.9% argon and 0.1%

other gases

Troposphere

Process where atmospheric gases absorb infrared

radiation emitted by Earth and re-radiated back toward

Earth…without it, Earth would be significantly colder and

life, as we know it, would not exist on Earth

What is Greenhouse Effect?

An example…Warm Earth temperature increase evaporation. This puts more water vapour in the air. Water vapour is a

Greenhouse Gas. Water vapour absorbs infrared radiation coming from Earth and re-radiates back to

Earth. This increases the temperature on Earth (i.e., result

impacts the cause)

What is Feedback Loop?

The vertical movement of warm and cold air establishes

this circular current. For example, the North Pole is

heated by warm air that rises at the 60O latitude and moves

northward.

What is Convection Current?

CO2, CH4, water vapour and N2O

What are Greenhouse Gases?

The largest reservoir of carbon near

the surface of the Earth.

What are the oceans?

During photosynthesis, this gas is produced.

What is oxygen?

These substances always contain atoms of carbon AND hydrogen, and often, oxygen

and nitrogen.

What are Organic Substances?

During this process, green plants absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and

use it to manufacture plant fibres, starches and sugars

What is photosynthesis?

It is the source of all energy in Earth’s ecosystems.

What is the Sun?

Working in the Antarctica, scientists drill vertically into the

ice and extract ice cores. To examine the concentrations of

Greenhouse Gases in the Eath’s atmosphere over 500,000 years

ago, the scientists do this procedure…

What is “take a very thin, vertical slice of

the ice?”

Scientists know how fast ice forms (i.e., deposition rate...or depth of new ice added every year). By measuring the concentration of

gases trapped in air bubbles in the ice, scientists can determine the

atmospheric conditions at times in Earth’s history

Ice and snow, sand and open fields reflect a lot of heat

radiation. Forest absorb lots of heat radiation. This example describes….

What is Albedo Effect?

Biogeochemical cycle in which carbon is cycled through the lithosphere,

atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere

What is the Carbon Cycle?

Water expands as it warms up. Thus, the oceans will rise due to melting polar ice caps AND the water will cover even

more area as it warms. The term for water expansion is…

What is Thermal Expansion?

The ocean’s water circulate constantly around the globe…

the major ocean currents of the world. This water circulation…

called Thermohaline Circulation… impacts coastal climates. What two factors

influence thermohaline ocean currents

What is (1) different salt

concentrations and (2) different water

temperatures…at both depth and at the surface?

Resulting from a human source

What is Anthropogenic?

Primary source ofNitrous oxide (N2O)

emissions.

What is management of

livestock feed and waste?

The percentage of the Sun’s radiation reaching the Earth that is absorbed by all the

green plants on Earth.

What is less than 1% of the total

energy(actually 0.26%)?

Ozone occurs in the stratosphere and absorbs this form of radiation of the sun

What is high-energy ultraviolet radiation (UV)?

Altitude, latitude, ocean currents, and proximity to large bodies of water plus wind direction

What are the four factors that impact

climate?

As polar ice caps melts due to Global Warming, the

volume of fresh water entering the oceans

increasing. How does this change potentially impact

the flow of ocean currents?

What is altering the salt concentration

differences in the oceans?

If the zones of higher salt concentration ocean water are

diluted, the difference between low and high salt concentration zones

will be reduced. Water will not flow naturally to dilute the high

concentration, and as such, thermohaline circulation will cease

Total amount of Greenhouse Gas

emissions produced by an organization, event, product or

person.

What is Carbon Footprint?

The type of radiation from the Sun that the ozone in the stratosphere absorbs

What is Ultraviolet (UV)?

UV is high-energy radiation.In strong or large doses, it is

very harmful to our cells.

In the carbon cycle, carbon moves from

terrestrial (ground) to atmosphere. These two events are the primary

cause the carbon movement in this

direction.

What are(1) volcanic eruptions and

(2) forest fires?