Ecology
Forestry
Fossils
Dynamic Planet
Astronomy
100
A diagram showing the interconnection between all species and their food sources in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
100
Can tell us how old the tree is, and what the weather was like during each year of the tree's life.
What are tree rings?
100
Rocks created by compact grains of sediments.
What are sedimentary rocks?
100
A natural disaster caused by underwater earthquakes.
What is a tsunami?
100
The name of the galaxy we are in right now.
What is the Milky Way?
200
Transferred from each organism in a food chain to the other.
What is energy?
200
The most vital process leaves partake in (and all other plants).
What is photosynthesis?
200
What dinosaur is this?
What is a Brontosaurus?
200
Divided structures under the earth’s crust (which lie under the surface) and move due to convection currents from the mantle.
What are tectonic plates?
200
One of the zodiac signs (name any one of them).
What is Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, or Pisces?
300
Organisms that break down (or feed on) dead organic material.
What are decomposers?
300
Name this tree:
What is Willow?
300
“The era of the dinosaurs” that is divided into three periods: Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous.
What is the Mesozoic Era?
300
The process by which surfaces are worn down by wind and water over long periods of time.
What is erosion?
300
The most widely-accepted theory regarding how the Universe began.
What is the Big Bang?
400
Part of the atmosphere that holds life.
What is the troposphere?
400
What tree produces these nuisances?
What is Sweetgum?
400
What dinosaur is shown by this fossil?:
What is a velociraptor?
400
The outermost section of the Earth’s atmosphere.
What is the exosphere?
400
Name ANY of the circumpolar constellations.
What is the Big Dipper (Ursa Major), Little Dipper (Ursa Minor), Draco, Cassiopea, OR Cepheus?
500
Scientific label for organisms that make their own food; another name for producers.
What are autotrophs?
500
All or nothing: The two types of leaf arrangements.
What is alternate and opposite?
500
Process that occurs when the tissue of an organism is replaced with minerals, leaving a cast of the organism. Usually occurs with bone and shells.
What is petrification?
500
The 3 natural processes that release Co2.
What is combustion, decomposition, and respiration?
500
The official name of the North Star.
What is Polaris?