Challenges
How many words can you make using the words
SURVIVER SCIENCE
Pass board to another team
Count the number of words
1--> 100
2--> 50
30--> 25
What are the three main types of rocks in the rock cycle?
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
What river carved the Grand Canyon over millions of years?
What is the Colorado River?
What term describes animals that eat only plants?
What are herbivores?
What is the smallest unit of an element that keeps its properties?
What is an atom?
Fast Facts
- You have 3 minutes to finish the game board provided.
Write scores on a white board
Hold up white board
This process turns sediment into sedimentary rock by pressing it together and cementing it.
What is compaction and cementation?
The Grand Canyon's rock layers show a record of Earth's history. What do we call these visible layers of rock?
What is a
Stratigraphic Column?
In a food web, what do arrows represent?
What is the flow of energy or “who eats whom”?
What is the chemical symbol for oxygen?
What is O for oxygen?
Blooket Challenge
Type in Code on Board
Person from winning Team Wins points.
Grand Canyon
Winner is....
An igneous rock can become a metamorphic rock. What process causes this change?
What are heat and pressure?
The oldest exposed rock at the bottom of the Grand Canyon is over 1.7 billion years old. What is it called?
What is the Vishnu Schist?
In an energy pyramid, which level has the most energy: producers or tertiary consumers?
What are producers?
Balance this equation:
H₂ + O₂ → H₂O
How many water molecules are formed?
What is 2 H₂ + 1 O₂ → 2 H₂O? (Two water molecules)
An oil spill is threatening your survival base on the coast. You have a 5×5 map grid of the bay, and satellite images show signs of oil spreading. You are the environmental science team tasked with finding the leak source, predicting the spread direction, and developing a containment strategy — all before it reaches critical wildlife zones.
The wind blew steadily from the northwest overnight.
Currents flow southeast toward grid E5, where the bay opens to the ocean.
Oily sheen was first spotted at B4.
Dead fish found at C4, D4, and E3.
Wildlife refuge is at E2 and E4 — must be protected.
Dock with a rusty fuel tank is at B2.
An old pipeline runs underground from B2 → C3 → D3.
1 2 3 4 5
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
A | | | | | |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
B | | | | | |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
C | | | | | |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
D | | | | | |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
E | | | | | |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
C3
Magma cools slowly underground to form this type of igneous rock with large crystals.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
Name two forces of erosion that helped shape the Grand Canyon.
What are water and wind?
Name the three main trophic levels in a simple food chain, starting with plants.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
(Or: producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers — accept either with explanation)
Why do chemical equations need to be balanced?
Because matter cannot be created or destroyed; atoms must be equal on both sides (Law of Conservation of Mass).
You five minutes to create and test a paper airplane. The team who has a plane that can travel the farest wins 500 points, 300 points, and 100 points.
Winner is...
Describe a complete path through the rock cycle starting with sedimentary rock and ending with igneous rock. Name the processes that cause the changes.
What is:
Sedimentary rock → heat and pressure → metamorphic rock
Metamorphic rock → melts → magma
Magma → cools and solidifies → igneous rock?
You’re traveling up the rock layers of the Grand Canyon. Describe how the age of the rocks changes as you go from the bottom to the top, and explain what this tells us about Earth’s history.
What is:
The rocks get younger as you go up.
This shows how newer layers form on top of older ones, giving us a timeline of Earth's history (Law of Superposition).
Explain what would happen to a food web if all the top predators were removed from an ecosystem.
What is:
Populations of prey species would increase,
which could cause overgrazing or depletion of producers,
leading to imbalance in the ecosystem?
Balance this equation:
C + O₂ → CO₂
How many oxygen molecules are needed?
What is:
1 C + 1 O₂ → 1 CO₂? (Oxygen molecules = 1)