Nutrients
Energy
Water
Genetic Information
Cosmic Timeline
100

This is where mushrooms get their organic nutrients.

What is the soil (or any plant material)?

100

Even while asleep humans are always losing this type of energy.

What is heat?

100

This is the process by which water goes from liquid to a gas.

What is evaporation?

100

This was the first year that a human baby was ever born after having gene editing.

When is 2018?

100

This event created space itself, and is considered the beginning of our universe.

What is the Big Bang?

200

This is how farms can add new organic nutrients to the soil.

What is fertilizer?

200

This is the most common energy source for almost all organisms on Earth.

What is sunlight?

200

For thousands of years, this is how farmers have moved river water into their fields.

What is irrigation?

200

The genetic coding for human beings is recorded in this 3-letter acronym.

What is DNA?

200
This is how old our universe is (+/- 1 billion years)

13.8 billion years

(so anything from 12.8-14.8 billion years old is acceptable).

300

These are two examples of organisms that are decomposers.

What are fungi/mushrooms, snails, worms, termites, bacteria?

300

This is eventually produced when organic matter is not decomposed for millions of years and instead compacted into solid rock form.

What is coal (or fossil fuels)?

300

These are the elements in a water molecule.

What are hydrogen and oxygen?

300

This gender is colorblind more often because their 23rd chromosome has an X and a Y, and the Y can't override a colorblind X chromosome.

Who are genetic males?

300

This was a rapid evolution of many complex animals that occurred about 540 million years ago.

What is the Cambrian Explosion?

400

These are two inorganic nutrients found in the air.

What are O2 and CO2?

400

These can be an energy source even without any sunlight.

What are organic nutrients (organic matter)?

400

This is different way that an ecosystem can get water other than rain.

What is surface water?

(rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, wetlands)

400

This kingdom of organisms is closer related to fungi than plants.

What are animals?

400

This process is where atoms combine and release energy, and is how every star releases energy.

What is nuclear fusion?

(we'd also accept nucleosynthesis)

500

In a hot and sunny rainforest, this is where most of the nutrients will be stored.

What are the trees?

500

This is the where humans get all their energy from.

What is food?

500

Second only to drinking liquids, this is the next most important way for a human to take in water.

What is eating food?

500

Other than DNA, this is another way for organisms to encode genetic information.

What is RNA?

500
This is a vital material that we think is necessary for life, and was delivered to Earth by comets that formed back when our solar system formed.

What is water?

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