1. Start the game by creating 3-4 teams or 3-4 individual competitors. Give each team/competitor a bell or buzzer.

2. Ask the competitor with the birth date closest to the day’s date to start the game by picking a category. Game host should then click and read what is listed on the $10 square of the category chosen. Participants must proceed from the lowest to the highest dollar amounts under each category.

3. The team that rings their bell first, answers the question. 4. To advance to the answer, click on the question slide.5. If they answer correctly, they receive the appropriate money award and choose the next

category. (If a team answers incorrectly, you can subtract the award money as a variation on the game.)

6. Have teams take turns choosing the category after each wrong answer. 7. When you wish to proceed to the board game after each answer slide, click on the

“home” icon in the lower left corner. Clicking elsewhere will lead you to a wrong slide.8. When all category levels have been exhausted, click in any of the category cells at the

top of the game board to advance to the final bonus round.9. Participants can wager all or part of their winnings during the final round, and thus loose

it if their answer is wrong or win the amount if their answer is correct.10. If desired, have a simple reward for the winning team and consolation prizes for the non-

winners.

INSTRUCTIONS

Materials: PPT game; bells for each team/competitor; play money in $10, $20, $30, $40, $50, and $100 denominations (optional, see slide #58)

Choose a category. You will be asked a question.

You must give the correct answer.

Click to begin.

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SUN & SEASONS

WILD WEATHER

WEATHER INSTRUMENTS

EARTH’SATMOSPHERE

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Another name for a hurricane

Cyclone or Typhoon$10

Name given to someone who studies the weather

Meteorologists$20

This wild weather phenomenon results in the

most deaths from year to yearin the U.S.

Floods and Flash Floods$30

The temperature at which water turns to ice, or ice turns

to water

32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius

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Lightning is this far away if you can count to ten between

the “flash” of lightning and the “bang” of its thunder.

2 Miles$50

This instrument measures the temperature

Thermometer$10

This instrument measuresair pressure

Barometer $20

This instrument measuresthe wind speed

Anemometer $30

This instrument measures humidity

Hygrometer $40

This large, expensive, and valuable tool simulates and predicts tomorrow’s weather

Supercomputers with weather models

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The scientific name for big thunder clouds

Cumulonimbus clouds $10

True or False: Clouds are a gas

Why?

False. Clouds are made of ice and/or very small droplets of water.

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Most of our atmosphere is composed of this gas

Nitrogen (78% of our atmosphere)

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These beautiful lights in the night sky are caused by large

storms on the Sun.

Aurora, Aurora Borialis,Aurora Australis,

Northern or Southern Lights $40

A narrow “river” of strong wind

high in the atmosphere between 20,000 and 40,000

feet up (about 4-7.5 miles up)

Jet Stream $50

Hurricane season in the U.S.

is NOT during one of these months:

April, July, or October

April(the Atlantic hurricane

season runs from June 1 to November 30)

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In the U.S., tornados are most plentiful

during this season

Spring (then summer then fall;

months that have the most are May, June, April,

then July) $20

Reason we have seasons

Earth’s tilt on its axis –In the Northern Hemisphere we tilt toward the Sun in the summer and away from the

Sun in the winter. $30

The Sun is closest to the Earth during this month/season

January/Winter $40

The approximate distance the Sun is from Earth

93 million miles $50

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In our atmosphere, is Ozone: Good, Bad, or Both?

Please explain!

It is both! Bad in the troposphere

near people;Good and VERY important in

the stratosphere.

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Weather You’reIn-the-Know Game Show