Ecosystem / Energy
Natural / Artificial Selection
Space
Genetics / Earth's History
Plate Tectonics / Natural Disasters
Mystery Category
100

The three ecosystems that organisms can exist on Earth.

What is terrestrial, aquatic marine and aquatic freshwater?

100

"Survival of the fittest" but more accurately organisms which are more well-adapted to their environment will continue to survive.

What is natural selection? 

100

The eighth planet in the solar system. As the third most massive planet in the solar system, it is ravaged by supersonic winds.

What is the planet Neptune?

100

The names of the four nucleotides.

What is adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine

100

The largest tectonic plate in the world.

What is the Pacific Plate?

100

The species from which domesticated dogs originate from.

What is the gray wolf?

200

Organisms which can produce their own food.

Autotrophs / Producers

200

A permanent change in genetic code.

What is a mutation?

200

The type of electromagnetic radiation that is visible to human eyes. Another name for visible light.

What is white light?

200

A permanent change in the genetic code.

What is a mutation?

200

The continent of Africa is being split in two by its tectonic plates; these plates are called ________ .

What is a divergent plate/ boundary.

200

Darwin formulated his theory of evolution after visiting this island off the coast of Ecuador.

What is the Galapagos Islands?

300

This specific marine ecosystem on Earth has the most biodiversity and the highest carrying capacity on the entire planet (specific name of place). 

What is the Great Barrier Reef?

300

These are gradual changes in a species' genes (through each generation) that give them a better chance to survive in an ecosystem. 

What is an adaptation?

300

An imaginary line from which an object rotates upon, Earth's tilts at 23.5 degrees give us these conditions on Earth.

What are the seasons?

300

This era in Earth's history was the time period in which terrestrial plants, fish, amphibians, insects and the first reptiles came into existence.

What is the Paleozoic Era?

300

The name of the supercontinent that existed approximately 250 million years ago.

What is Pangea?

300

The scientific name of cats.

What is felis domesticus / felis catus?

400

Energy is used in organism's for these three functions.

What is reproduction, cellular respiration, and recovery?

400

The four requirements for an animal to domesticated.

What is 1) feedable 2) friendly 3) able to reproduce (fecund) 4) and families?

400

The name of a small rocky celestial object after it has struck the surface of the Earth.

What is a meteorite?

400

An intentional change in an organism's DNA completed by scientists before that organism is born.

What is genetic engineering?

400

The crust and the upper part of the mantle which is broken up into tectonic plates.

What is the lithosphere?

400

The three species which are the closest living relatives to humans.

What are gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans?

(bonobos work as well)


500

A quartenary consumer receives this much energy when compared the total energy available.

What is 0.01% of the original energy?

500

An organ that no longer is useful for an organism yet still exists due to its ancestors.

What is a vestigial appendage?

500

The most cratered object in the solar system.

What is the Galilean Satellite, Calisto?

500

The scientific name of a domesticated dog.

What is canis lupus familiaris?

500

The action of pushing the seafloor apart via magma vents in mid-ocean ridges.

What is rifting or seafloor spreading?

500

Tightly wound DNA, located within the nucleus of the cell.

What is a chromosome?

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