Terrariums
Pollution
Domestic Animals
Agriculture
Report Writing
200

These are the two types of terrarium.

What are open and closed-system terrariums?

200

This is the gas cows produce with their behinds.

What is methane?

200

This is the sound of a chicken laying an egg.

What is bok-bok-bok-bok-bok-bokAAAAWK!

200

This is the main crop grown in South East Asian countries.

What is rice?

200

This is the referencing system used in the IB syllabus.

What is APA?

400

This is the purpose of the bottom layer of your terrarium.

What is filtration?

400

This is the country in which volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted in 2010.

What is Iceland?

400

This is the scientific name for fish farms.

What is pisciculture?

400

These chemicals are transported via runoff, causing algal blooms and depletion of oxygen in the water.

What are fertilisers (N and P)?

400

This is the correct notation for the chemical symbols for Carbon dioxide and oxygen.

What is CO2 and O2?

600

This is the average pH of this class's soil measurements, to the nearest whole number.

What is 6?

600
These are the three types of pollution.

What is land, water, and air pollution?

600

This is the difference between aquaculture and fishing.

What is aquaculture being the process of cultivating aquatic organisms in controlled environments as opposed to fishing, which is the harvesting of wild fish. Aquaculture also doesn't refer to only fish and can mean any aquatic organism, plant or animal.

600

These are the 3 environmental factors that determine the suitability of land for agriculture.

What are climate, geography and geology?

600

This section contains a comprehensive analysis of variables, data, trends and observations.

What is the discussion?

800

This is the difference between qualitative and quantitative data.

What is qualitative data being reliant on observations and quantitative data being reliant on numbers?

800

This is the distinction between a pollutant and a contaminant.

What is substances having to be harmful to the environment to be considered a pollutant?

800

These are 3 reasons why zebras cannot be domesticated.

What are:

Zebras kick and bite and are a general pain in the behind.

They lack a family structure and don't care for each other.

They have a ducking reflex that makes them very difficult to lasso.

800

These are 3 benefits of using pesticides on your farm.

What are improved crop yields, lowered costs, and disease control?

800

These are the three mandatory components of a good hypothesis statement.

What are: If, then, because?

1000

Between 10 and 20, this is the number of times I read the word 'terrarium' spelled incorrectly when I was marking your ESS assignments.

What is 14?

1000

This triatomic gas is incredibly useful in the atmosphere, but a pollutant on the Earth's surface level. Name the gas and explain why this is the case.

What is ozone, because it blocks UV radiation in the atmosphere, but causes lung irritation when inhaled by humans
1000

These are 3 of 4 requirements for an animal to be considered for domestication.

What is feedable, friendly, fecund and families?

1000

This 1 conservational technique and 1 or 2 farming practices reduce agricultural pollution.

What is a riparian buffer and conservation tillage or crop rotation?

1000

These are 3 literary features to avoid when writing academically.

What are: First person, absolutes like 'proof' and 'wrong', subjective language, contractions, swear words, etc.