Colonies
This is the colonial region whose economy relied on the ocean.
This is the name given to organisms that RECYCLE nutrients back into the environment.
What are DECOMPOSERS?
This is the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE in this scenario:
Ryan wondered whether cucumber plants would grow faster if they were kept at a higher temperature.
What is the TEMPERATURE of the plant?
This is the name of the Disney movie that is based on the story of the settlement of Jamestown.
What is POCAHONTAS?
This is the INDEPENDENT variable in this scenario:
Frank believes he can get better test grades if he studies for a shorter time.
What is the TIME HE STUDIES?
(also acceptable, HOW MUCH HE STUDIES)
This is the name of the colony closest to the equator.
What is GEORGIA?
This is the term used to refer to the members of a SINGLE species in an ecosystem.
What is POPULATION?
This is the type of variable that the amount of water is, in this scenario:
Damien wanted to know if using a different type of shampoo would make his hair smell better.
What is CONTROLLED variable?
This is the name of the early English settlement with a year of founding that is NOT divisible by 3.
What is Jamestown (1607)?
This is the TYPE of energy that plants convert light energy to -- which is then eaten by primary consumers.
What is CHEMICAL?
This is the name of the colony that the state of Maine was originally part of.
What is MASSACHUSETTS (or Massachusetts Bay)?
This is the NUMBER of TROPHIC levels you must move up, to go from PRODUCERS to TERTIARY CONSUMERS.
What is THREE? (from 1st Trophic Level to 4th Trophic Level.)
These are the THREE steps in the Scientific Method where you are most likely to:
A. search on Google
B. wear safety goggles
C. make a claim
What are:
A.RESEARCH
B.EXPERIMENT
C.HYPOTHESIS
This is the PRODUCT of:
- The number of letters in the WORD that was carved into a wooden post which was the only trace left of the Roanoke colony; and
- The number of times James White traveled from England to Roanoke.
What is 24 (CROATOAN-8x3)?
The letter(s) of the item(s) in this list that is/are a QUALITATIVE OBSERVATION:
A. There are eight chicks.
B. Chick #6 is larger than chick #7.
C. Chick #5 is half an inch taller than chick #8.
What is B? (not C)
This is the name of the colonial REGION where ALL the colonies have MORE CONSONANTS than VOWELS in their names.
What is New England (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut)?
(Middle colonies have Delaware)
This is the SUM of:
- The number of CONSUMERS in the list: Chicken, dog, mushroom, tomato plant;
- The number of the trophic level that PRIMARY CONSUMERS exist at; and
- The number of LETTERS in the name of the DECOMPOSER in the list: Egg, Turtle, Weed, Fungi
What is 9 (2+2+5)?
For this scenario: John believes that the hotter it is outside, the more his knee hurts while walking.
These are the items in the below list that should be CONTROLLED VARIABLES.
- The temperature outside
- The place he walks
- How much his knee hurts
- How fast he walks
What are the place he walks, and how fast he walks?
This is the name of the cash crop grown by Jamestown, that helped enable them to survive.
What is TOBACCO?
This is the PRODUCT of:
- The number of colonies that have two words in their names (Massachusetts Bay does not count);
- The year when the colony known for the first Thanksgiving was founded; and
- The number of the trophic level where herbivores are found.
What is 17,820 (6 x 1620 x 2)
This was the name of the first baby born to English parents in the New World.
Who is Virginia Dare?
This is the VOLUME in LITERS of a rectangular prism with:
LENGTH (in cm) = The number of items in the following list that are ABIOTIC factors: Mushrooms, Bacteria, Humidity, Soil, Trees;
WIDTH (in cm) = The trophic level that TERTIARY CONSUMERS exist at; and
HEIGHT (in cm) = The number of legs the name 'centipede' means (though they don't actually have that many)
What is 0.8 (2x4x100 = 800 cm3 = 800mL = 0.8 Liters)?
This is the SUM of:
- The number of INDEPENDENT variables in a proper scientific experiment;
- The number of DEPENDENT variables in a proper scientific experiment;
- The number of letters in the name of the remaining type of variable; and
- The number of letters in the stage of the Scientific Method where you ask/state the question.
What is 19 (1+1+10+7, CONTROLLED, PURPOSE)?
This is the PRODUCT of the ATOMIC NUMBERS of the two elements that make up the substance being measured, in SALINITY.
What is 187 (Na-11 x Cl-17)?
These are the names of the two colonies whose current capitals are Harrisburg and Columbia.
What are PENNSYLVANIA and SOUTH CAROLINA?