QUIZ

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Remember, if you get the answer wrong, the computer will insult you. But hidden in the insult is a clue to the correct answer! The question of the hour is "Can you find the hidden clue?????"

1. What other scale uses the same size degree as Celsius?

2. What kind of heat is involved when water changes its phase?

3. A person who has climbed to the top of a ladder and is preparing to dive into the pool has used what kind of energy to climb to the top?

4. In the SI system of measurement, what is the unit used in measuring heat?

5. Although not an SI approved measure, what is the common measurement for pressure in the US on weather maps?

6. How many inches of mercury are there at average sea level pressure?

7. What kinds of waves in the electromagnetic spectrum have the most energy?

8.What term is used for the shortest and longest days of the year?

9.What kind of heat transfer occurs when there is physical contact between substances?

10. What is the SI term to be used instead of millibars?

Answers to the Last Game

2. What term used to use describe a rising temperature as one goes higher in altitude?
ANSWER: inversion

3. At what level of the atmosphere is the temperature the hottest, but it would feel cold?
ANSWER: thermosphere

4. What isotope of oxygen is a problem in low levels of the atmosphere, but protective at higher levels?
ANSWER: ozone

5. What "sphere" contains the waters of the Earth?
ANSWER: hydrosphere

6. Which gas is found in the greatest amount in the atmosphere?
ANSWER: nitrogen

7. Below what height in the atmosphere does most weather take place?
ANSWER: 7 miles or 11 kilometers

8.What term is used for the change of liquid water to vapor
ANSWER: evaporation

9. If it wern't for greenhouse gases, what would the average temperature of the earth be in Fahrenheit?
ANSWER: 0 degrees Fahrenheit

10. What chemicals that were in spray cans have been implicated in the destruction of the ozone layer?
ANSWER: Chlorofluorocarbon