"Combining Radiant Energy" - Greek
Ahh Sugar Sugar
Study of Dwelling Places
What's for Dinner?
RSMSMU
100

Photosynthesis uses light energy, carbon dioxide, and ______ to produce oxygen and sugar.

What is water?

100

The chemical formula for glucose.

What is C6H12O6?

100

This is the study of habitats or dwelling places - in Greek - or the distribution and abundance of life on earth and other factors responsible for patterning.

Ecology

100

Plants - in greek.

Herbi....or actually φυτοφάγο (fytofágo)

100

What book won Harper Lee a Pulitzer Prize in 1961? Ironically I've read it and can find no advice on bird hunting anywhere in it!

To Kill a Mockingbird

200

The green pigment that absorbs and stores the energy of sunlight.

What is chlorophyll?

200

This is formed when carbon dioxide bonds with water, leaving leftover oxygen.

Carbohydrate

200

An organism—often a predator, ecosystem engineer, or mutualist—that holds an ecosystem together, playing a critical, outsized role in maintaining biodiversity relative to its low population size.

Keystone Species

200

Name a detritovore.

Answers will vary: Earthworms / Millipedes / Termites / Woodlice (Roly-polies) / Dung Beetles / Slugs and Snails / Maggots  / Sea Cucumbers / Fiddler Crabs / Starfish / Vultures / Hyenas  

200

A Bridge Too Far (1977) is famous for its massive ensemble cast of1970s Hollywood and British icons, featuring Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, and John Ratzenberger.  What famous failed Allied WWII operation in France, Belgium, and Holland, does this movie depict?

Operation Market Garden

300

The tiny pores in the bottom of leaves that take in carbon dioxide from the air.

What are stomata?

300

Substances formed when plants have been buried for millions of years and then used for a wide variety of products including fuel, plastic, and roadway tar.

Fossil Fuels

300

Referring to land

Terrestrial

300

What do we call the materials on the RIGHT side (after the arrow) in a chemical equation. They are what is created in a chemical reaction.

Products

300

When a fighter pilot says: Angels, Bandit, Bingo, Fox, Check Your Six.....what do they mean?  Get three right for the win!

Thousands of Feet - Enemy - Empty - Missile - Behind You

400

With a wavelength of about 495 to 570 nanometers, this range of visible light is generally unpalatable and rejected by plants.

Green

400

Water, carbon dioxide, and ATP are ___________

of CELLULAR RESPIRATION

Products

400

Aquatic vs. Marine

Water vs. Ocean

400

Species can be grouped according to their feeding strategies in levels called......

Trophic Levels

400

Who is the most famous Eridian?

Rocky

500

Name three ways (organelles) that plant cells are different from animal cells.

What is cell wall, large central vacuole, and chloroplasts?

500

Their 5th studio album released in 2014 included the hit 'Sugar'.  Ironically there are 6 people in the band now.

Maroon 5

500

The dwelling place - habitat - biome - ecoregion for the Seven Hills campus and surrounding hills of Mt. Diablo and Briones.

Oak Chaparral

500

A graphical representation of the energy, biomass, or number of organisms found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem, with producers at the base and apex predators at the top.

Trophic Pyramid

500

In emergency medicine, one of the first things an EMT or paramedic will check are the A, B, C's.  What are the A, B, C's?

Airway - mouth, nose, throat

Breathing - air going in and out effectively

Circulation - heart, blood, and vessels

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