Human activity and water
Continental drift
Plate Tectonics
Trophic levels and food chains
Space
Wild Card
100
When you leave harmful chemicals like fertilizers and pesticides where do they ultimately end up.
in the watershed/aquifer down stream of the pollution source
100
What was the the super continent that Alfred Wegener hypothesized existed?
Pangea
100
What land forms are formed at divergent plate boundaries?
Rift Valleys, and Mid ocean Ridges
100
Where does all energy for life come from?
The sun. Also acceptable lower trophic level
100
name 1 of the 2 things that affect the pull due to gravity.
distance and mass
100
What arm of the galaxy is our solar system in?
Orion
200
A rocklayer under ground that hold water is a(n)...
aquifer
200
What is the oldest fossil here?
Trilobites
200
What are formed at subduction zones?
Oceanic Trenches, and Volcanos
200
What are three of the four trophic levels
Producer, Primary Consumer, Secondary consumer, Tertiary Consumer
200
what are the four inner planets?
mercury, venus, earth, and mars
200
What kind of pressure usually causes mild weather?
Low
300
Which of the following are beneficial to watersheds?
1 Planting plants near water systems
2 reducing household waste
3 increased factory activity on the watershed
1 and 2
300
What evidence did Alfred Wegener use to make his claims about continental drift?
Fossil Evidence, rock layers, the shapes of the continents and/or the sea floor spreading rock ages(that last one was Henry Hess rather than Alfred Wagner but it is acceptable in this case)
300
What land forms are formed at tranform boundaries?
Fault lines, causing Earthquakes.
300
What do the arrows on a food web indicate?
The direction of energy flow
300
list the four outer planets
jupiter, saturn, uranus, and neptune
300
What is needed to form a hurricane?
Warm weather/water, high pressure, coriolis effect
400
which of the following will reduce the local fish populations
1.increasing the number of fishing in the area
2.introducing non native species
3.limiting the number of fish that can be caught per year
1 and 2
400
Daily Double (worth twice as many points)
When a single lone island chain forms in the middle of a plate this could be because of a...
Hot Spot
400
What are formed when two continental plates converge?
Mountains
400
How much energy makes it from one trophic level to the next?
10%
400
which planet has the greatest gravity
jupiter
400
What is Mrs. Shirley's favorite thing that is a part of Primary Succession? (it's beautiful and it makes dirt!)
LICHENS
500
list 2 ways that humans can benefit the aquifer levels
answers will vary teacher discretion.
use less water
plant more plants to get more water to seep into the ground
control erosion
use fewer harmful chemicals on soils
reduce construction in water shed areas
500
True or False: The continents are no longer moving and will stay in their position forever.
False
500
What powers plate tectonics?
Convection Currents in the mantle
500
What recycles nutrients in a food web?
decomposers
500
which planet has the least gravity
mercury. no pluto doesn't count it's not a planet
500
What does every star start as? (it is a collection of dust held together by gravity)
Nebula