Atmospheric Alphabet
Ocean Pop
Enviro Pop
Steep Helping of Pi
Sea Breezes
100

This "R" Term is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets.

What is a Rainbow?

100

In this famous Greek legend, the eponymous hero traverses most of the Mediterranean Sea on his way home.

What is the Odyssey?

100

This PBS Kids show from 1999 featured a protagonist lemur and taught children about animals.

What is Zoboomafoo?

100

This peninsular range of mountains in Washington hosts 15 named glaciers.

What are the Olym(pi)c Mountains?

100

Sea breezes are an example of this scale of meteorology.

What is mesoscale meteorology?

200

An "A" term describing the optical phenomenon that results from disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by solar wind.

What is an Aurora Borealis?

200

First recorded by Plato, the legend of this civilization that sank into the Atlantic Ocean later inspired an animated Disney film.

What is Atlantis?

200

This region of Wisconsin (and surrounding states) is famous for never having been glaciated during the most recent Ice Age.

What is the Driftless Area/Region?

200

This National Park is famous for its California Condors.

What is (Pi)nnacles National Park?

200

This company is responsible for the inclusion of cranberry juice, rather than grenadine, in the "sea breeze" cocktail.

What is Ocean Spray?

300

This "C" term, sometimes colloquially called "god rays", are sunbeams that originate when the Sun appears just above or below a layer of clouds at twilight and are noticeable when the contrast between light and dark are the most obvious.

What are Crepuscular Rays?

300

This popular children's movie protagonist who lives in the ocean was named for a character from Moby Dick.

Who is Nemo?

300

This well-known, modern scientist and author has written three books about the ways that Potawatomi knowledge and environmental science interact.

Who is Robin Wall Kimmerer?

300

This glacier subtype is known for its fan-like appearance on valley floors.

What are (Pie)dmont Glaciers?

300

In the early 20th century, doctors attributed the strengthening effects of "sea air" to improvements in the conditions of patients with this illness, even naming one sanitarium "Sea Breeze".

What is tuberculosis?

400

This "S" term (or "P" term in atmospheric sciences) consists of a bright spot to one or both sides of the sun. They can be seen anywhere in the world during any season and are most conspicuous when the Sun is near the horizon.

What is a Sun Dog or Parhelion (will also accept "mock sun")?

400

At the end of The Return of the King, Frodo and others set off to cross this ocean.

What is Belegaer/the Great Sea/the Western Sea/the Sundering Sea?

400

This Wisconsin senator is famous for having founded Earth Day.

Who is Gaylord Nelson?

400

This country hosts the famous "Roof of Africa" -- an area of incredible highlands.

What is Ethio(pi)a?

400

This mid-Atlantic U.S. state contains a community named "Sea Breeze", made up entirely of seasonal homes after permanent homes were devastated by hurricanes and fire.

What is New Jersey?

500

This "L" term comes from tiny crystals of ice hanging in the atmosphere.

What is a Light Pillar?

500

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld Series, this ocean pours over the edges of the flat world.

What is the Rim Ocean?

500

This animated 1992 film about rainforests features a fairy named Crysta and is set near "Mount Warning".

What is Fern Gully?

500

This Glacier National Park pass had the distinction of being one of three mountain passes in the park to host a locomotive bell in 1926.

What is (Pie)gan Pass?

500

Francis Beaufort, creator of the Beaufort Wind Scale, used this phrase to describe a wind speed between a "moderate breeze" and a "strong breeze".

What is a fresh breeze?

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