Answers and Questions from the Jeopardy Review

Here is the review we did today in class.

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Natural Freakin’ Disasters Jeopardy

Hurricanes:

Tropical storms that exceed 74 mi/hr and circulate counter- clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere
Answer: hurricane

This indicates that a hurricane is possible in the area within the next 36 hours
Answer: hurricane watch

 This indicates that a hurricane is expected to occur in the area within the next 24 hours or less
 Answer: hurricane warning

A high flood of water caused by wind and low pressure
Answer: storm surge

The three stages of a hurricane’s development
Answer: tropical depression, tropical storm, hurricane

 

Floods:

These types of floods cause the most deaths/damage
Answer: flash floods

An area of relatively flat land alongside a river
Answer: floodplain

This is why wetlands are important to flood control
Answer: They can absorb large amounts of water

The three main causes of floods
Answer: flat land, located near a body of water, rain

Some reasons that floodwater may be more dangerous than it looks
Answer: floodwaters can hide broken glass, snakes, and debris. It causes waste disposal systems to break 

down, an contaminates drinking water

 

Meteorites/Solar storms:

This is what protects Earth from being hit by more asteroids and comets
Answer: the earth’s atmosphere

Where the asteroid belt is located in our solar system
Answer: between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

What un-melted meteorites are made of
Answer: glass, metal, and rock

The sub-categories of melted meteorites
Answer: rocky, stony-iron, iron

What would happen to land on Earth if it were hit by a meteorite
Answer: There would be a blast wave (shock wave), particles launched into the atmosphere, and atomspheric dust would block out sunlight

 

Tornadoes:

Where Tornado Alley is located
Answer: the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, eastern South Dakota, and the Colorado Eastern Plains

The scale used to determine the destruction of a tornado
Answer: the Fujita scale

The four main stages of tornadoes
Answer: beginning stage, early stage, mature stage, decay stage

Highly organized storms that have updrafts which can reach 100 mph. Can produce strong tornadoes
Answer: Supercells

Downbursts from thunderstorms consisting of narrow columns of cool air. Damage is similar to weak tornadoes
Answer: microbursts

 

Lightning:

The two most common types of lightning
Answer: cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground

The approximate temperature of lightning
Answer: 54,000° F (about 5 times hotter than the sun)

How often lightning strikes the earth
Answer: 100 times/second

When this series of negative charges meets this climbing surge of positive charges, electricity is transferred as lightning.
Answer: stepped leader, streamer

Why hiding underneath a tree during a lightning storm is unsafe
Answer: lightning's extreme heat vaporizes the water inside a tree, which may blow the tree apart 

 

Final Jeopardy:

Was 5th in college football and now is 18th since they lost to Iowa last weekend
Answer: Michigan State