Water Matters! Jeopardy Game

1. Water Matters!Jeopardy Game Review of the Water Matters! Curricula Grades 6-8

2. Directions to Play Form two teams, and select a spokesperson for each team.Or call on students within each team to take turns answering questions. Start each team with $3,000 (points). Keep tally of points. For all slides to correctly advance, click the lower left corner of the slide. Click through the categories to get to the game board. When it’s their turn, teams should select a question to answer. For example, “Hydrologic cycle for $200.” Click on the question. After the team answers, click the lower left corner of the slide for the answer to appear. On each answer slide, there is a blue box in the lower left corner. Click this box to return to the game board.

3. Directions Continued • If a team answers correctly, they score that number of points. Teams continue to answer until they get a question wrong. If a team answers incorrectly, that number of points should be deducted.  • When finished with the first Jeopardy game, click the "STAR" at bottom right corner to begin Double Jeopardy. • After all Double Jeopardy questions are answered, click the "STAR" at bottom right hand corner to begin the "Final Jeopardy Question."  • Before you show the question, ask each team to write down their wager. Click only once and the final question will appear. Be careful not to click twice or the answer will appear. After students answer the question, a second click will take you to the answer. • The team with the most points remaining after “Final Jeopardy” wins.

5. Hydrologic Cycle

6. Weather and Climate

7. Watersheds

8. Florida Aquifer

9. Pollution and Water Quality

10. Sustainability

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12. Natures way of recycling water

13. What is the hydrologic cycle?

14. The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor

15. What is evaporation?

16. Amount of water vapor in the air

17. What is humidity?

18. The process of water vapor turning into water droplets

19. What is condensation?

20. The process of water absorbing into the ground

21. What is percolation?

22. The state of the air at a certain time and place

23. What is weather?

24. Scientists who study weather

25. Who are Meteorologists?

26. Large, powerful storm that begins over large bodies of water

27. What is a hurricane?

28. Instrument that shows wind direction

29. What is a wind vane?

30. The weather of a place over a long period of time

31. What is climate?

32. An area of land that sheds water into a larger body of water

33. What is a watershed?

34. The study of surface features of an area such as a mountain or valley

35. What is topography?

36. Name three functions of a wetland

37. What is control flooding, provide habitats for plants and animals, filter pollution?

38. A small creek that contributes to a larger river is one of these

39. What is a tributary?

40. Whatever is on the ground can be swept up in this and flow into creeks and rivers

41. What is runoff?

42. A type of landscape made of limestone, mud and sand

43. What is karst terrain?

44. Sponge like layers of underground rocks and limestone that hold and release water

45. What is an aquifer?

46. Groundwater that flows out of a natural opening in the earth’s surface

47. What is a spring?

48. Excessive water use can result in this, which renders aquifers unsuitable for drinking or for irrigation

49. What is salt-water intrusion?

50. The largest of Florida’s aquifers and is the primary source of drinking water for most of the state