Matter
Earth's Spheres
Ecosystems
Scientific Method and Variables
Grab Bag
Colonies
Before the Colonies
100
This is the number used to establish the order of elements in the Periodic Table.
What is ATOMIC NUMBER, or number of protons?
100
This is the layer of the atomsphere where you'd most likely find lightning.
What is the TROPOSPHERE?
100
This is the name given to ORGANISMS that DO NOT belong to ANY level inside an Energy Pyramid.
What are DECOMPOSERS?
100
This is the DEPENDENT VARIABLE in this scenario:
Edith wondered if using hair spray two times more per week, would make her hair grow faster.
What is how fast her hair grows?
(Also ok: length of her hair, speed of hair growth)
100
This is the TYPE of energy that plants convert light energy to -- which is then eaten by primary consumers.
What is CHEMICAL?
100
This is the name of the cash crop that enabled Jamestown to survive.
What is TOBACCO?
100
These are the two countries that were considered SUPERPOWERS during the Age of Exploration.
What are SPAIN and PORTUGAL?
200
This is the product of the ATOMIC NUMBERS of Nickel, Helium, and Beryllium.
What is 224?
(28x2x4)
200
These are the layers of the GEOSPHERE in order of LEAST to GREATEST THICKNESS.
What is CRUST, INNER CORE, OUTER CORE, MANTLE?
200
This is the NUMBER of TROPHIC levels you must move up, to go from PRODUCERS to SECONDARY CONSUMERS.
What is TWO? (from 1st Trophic Level to 3rd Trophic Level.)
200
Jason heard his teacher say "You catch more flies with honey than vinegar, you know." He figured he'd test it out.
This is the type of variable that the type of fly is, in his investigation.
What is a CONTROLLED variable?
200
This is the term used to refer to ALL the POPULATIONS/ ORGANISMS that live together in an ECOSYSTEM.
What is a COMMUNITY?
(also acceptable: BIOTIC FACTORS)
200
This is the name of the TWO early English settlements with years of founding that are divisible by 3.
What are Roanoke (1584) and Plymouth (1620)?
200
This is the LAST NAME of the explorer that North and South America are named after.
What is VESPUCCI?
300
This is the number of PROTONS there are in a MOLECULE of WATER.
What is 10?
(H2O = two hydrogen, one oxygen = 2x1 + 1x8 = 10 protons)
300
This is the NUMBER of N's in the names of the THREE types of plate boundaries.
What is 4?
COnVERGEnT, DIVERGEnT, TRAnSFORM
300
In the following ENERGY PYRAMID, the PRODUCERS start with 20,000 calories. This is how much energy is available to the EAGLE.
What is 20 calories?
(20,000/ 103 = 20)
300
The letter(s) of the item(s) in this list that is/are a QUANTITATIVE OBSERVATION:
A. There are thirty-two butterflies.
B. Dog #6 is six inches longer than dog #7.
C. Three fleas were found on Dog #14A.
What are A, B, and C (all of them)?
300
This is the name of the Italian explorer sent by ENGLAND to find a shortcut to Asia.
Who is John Cabot (or Giovanni Caboto)?
300
This is the SUM of:
- The number of colonies in the NEW ENGLAND region;
- The year that the colony POCAHONTAS was based on was founded; and
- The number of years that passed between Jamestown and Plymouth being founded.
What is 1624?
(4+1607+13)
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island (4)
1620-1607 (13)
300
This is the name of the Empire that blocked/ taxed access to the Silk Road, which drove the Age of Exploration.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
400
This is the number of protons in the following molecule:
What is 22?
(Carbon dioxide: 6 + 8x2 = 22)
400
This is the name of the layer of the atmosphere that contains the O3 layer.
What is the STRATOSPHERE?
400
This is the PRODUCT of the ATOMIC NUMBERS of the THREE TYPES of ELEMENTS that make up a GLUCOSE molecule.
What is 48?
(C-6, H-1, O-8)
400
These are the THREE steps in the Scientific Method where you are most likely to:
A. write down the question of what you want to know
B. disagree with Mr Chen on what you believe will happen
C. wear gloves
What are:
A.PURPOSE
B.HYPOTHESIS
C.EXPERIMENT
400
This/these is/are the point(s) out of those BELOW, which are located WEST of the PRIME MERIDIAN:
A: 15 degrees N, 75 degrees E
B: 85 degrees S, 10 degrees W
C: 0 degrees, 22.5 degrees W
D: 45 degrees S, 11 degrees E
What are B and C?
400
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 colonies in the Southern colonial region.
What is 40 (CROATOAN-8x5)?
400
This is the SUM of the ATOMIC NUMBERS of the elements that make up the spice that people used to use to preserve food before there was refrigeration.
What is 28?
SALT - NaCl - 11+17
500
This is the PRODUCT of:
- The NUMBER of LETTERS in the type of particle whose flow is responsible for electricity.
- The NUMBER of VOWELS in the type of particle that exists in the nucleus, but does not affect the ATOMIC NUMBER; and
- The NUMBER of ATOMS in this molecule:
What is 120? (8x3x5)
(ELECTRON - 8)
(NEUTRON - 3)
(Methane molecule - 5)
500
This is the NUMBER of O's in the profession of the person who first came up with the theory of Continental Drift.
What is 3?
(Wegener - METEoRoLoGY or METEoRoLoGIST)
500
(READ CAREFULLY!)
This is the VOLUME in LITERS of a rectangular prism with:
LENGTH (in METERS) = The number of organisms that eat BIRDS in the below food web;
HEIGHT (in CM) = The number of PRIMARY CONSUMERS in the below food web; and
WIDTH (in CM) = The number of the trophic level that TERTIARY CONSUMERS exist at.
What is 2.4?
(200x3x4= 2400cm3 = 2400mL = 2.4L)
500
This is the PRODUCT of:
- The number of letters in the type of variable that is generally NOT talked about when you write a HYPOTHESIS;
- The number of DEPENDENT variables in a proper scientific experiment; and
- The number of letters in the STAGE of the Scientific Method where you FIND OUT MORE about the topic.
What is 80 (CONTROLLED, 1, RESEARCH)?
(10x1x8)
500
This is the SUM of:
- The number of A's in the name of the stuff you START WITH in a chemical reaction;
- The number of protons in an atom of Fluorine; and
- The number of items in this list that are NOT matter:
Air, Water, Ideas, Light, Heat, Fungus
What is 54?
(reActAnts-2 x atomic #9 x Ideas-light-heat-3)
500
These are the names of the two colonies whose current capitals are Hartford and Atlanta.
What are CONNECTICUT and GEORGIA?
500
This is the LAST NAME of the navigator who actually completed Magellan's expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
What is ELCANO?