Unit 2 Review Game (Earth's Weather and Climate)

What is the amount of water vapor in the air?

• dew point
• humidity
• saturated
• relative humidity
• precipitation

What is the amount of water vapor present in air expressed as a percentage of the amount needed for saturation at the same temperature?

• humidity
• relative humidity
• saturated
• dew point
• precipitation

What is an inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival?

• fitness
• strength
• biomechanics
• adaptation
• skill

What is the condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place?

• biosphere
• weather
• climate
• status
• location

What is the overall weather in an area over a long period of time (typically 30 years)?

• weather
• climate
• biosphere
• status
• calendar

What is the warming of a planet by gases in the atmosphere that absorb heat?

• Global Warming
• Climate Change
• The Greenhouse Effect
• Carbon Warming
• Carbon Dating

What is the naturally occurring molecule of three oxygen atoms that absorbs UV rays in the atmosphere?

• ozone
• oxygen (breathable)
• methane
• carbon dioxide
• nitrous oxide

What is light with shorter wavelengths than visible light and harmful to living things?

• infrared radiation
• Ultraviolet Radiation (UV Rays)
• X-rays
• visible light
• gamma rays

What are the chemicals that have the potential to destroy the ozone?

• methane
• chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
• nitrous oxide
• carbon dioxide
• water vapor

What is the distance north or south of the equator (that changes the amount of sunlight an area receives)?

• longitude
• arctic
• hemisphere
• latitude
• angle