Taxonomy
Who is known as "the father of taxonomy?"
Carl Linneaus
What are the two types of reproduction?
Sexual and asexual
Difference between minerals and rocks
Minerals make up rocks
What bug makes its own food?
A bee
What planet does Elon Musk want to make inhabitable?
Mars
What classifies something as the kingdom "Animalia?" Or, what makes an animal an animal?
It must eat other things
What are the two types of nutrition? (Bonus +100 if you tell me the difference between the two)
Autotrophic (non-organic material, plants) and heterotrophic (organic material, animals)
How are igneous rocks formed?
When magma and/or lava cools.
True or false...Lobsters can live to be over 100 years old
True!
What do they think killed the dinosaurs?
A big meteor
These are found in the earth's crust and help establish the age of a species.
Fossils
What are changes that occur in one's environment called? (light, sound, or movement for example).
Stimuli
How do metamorphic rocks get to earth's surface (2 main ways, 150 points for each).
Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes
Explain what an amphibian is.
See
What is in the center of the Milky Way?
Black hole
The group of organisms that live in extreme environments (one of the kingdoms)
Archaea
Draw a picture on the board of cellular respiration with correct labels
See board
What are the processes called that turn metamorphic/igneous rock into sediments (two important words)?
Weathering and erosion
How do frogs breathe?
Through their skin
What is the name of the large galaxy moving towards us?
Andromeda
600 point question! Give me the 6 kingdoms of life. 100 points for each kingdom.
Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria
Name the 6 essential nutrients (50 points for each, +200 for all 6).
Hint: nutrients in food
Fat, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, water
Sedimentary: sandstone, limestone, coal, rock salt
Igneous: granite, basalt, obsidian
Metamorphic: marble, slate, schist, quartzite
A snail can sleep for how many years?
3
How many people have stepped foot on the moon (can be within 2 to get points)
12