Scientific Method & Density
The Spheres
Ecology
Pop Eco
Energy & Pollution
Climate Change
Mixed Bag
WILD CARD
200
a systematic approach to problem solving that involved observation and experimentation
What is the scientific method?
200
the layer of the Earth that contains all life
biosphere
200
Trophic level of organisms that go through photosynthesis
Producers
200
the maximum number of a population a particular ecosystem can support
What is carrying capacity
200
An energy source that cannot be replenished in our life time
Nonrenewable Energy Source
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Short term daily atmospheric patterns over a small region
What is weather?
200
What is parasitism?
A close relationship which one organism is harmed and the other benefits
200
There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
There aren’t any— it's a one story house.
400
the variable being changed
Independent variable
400
What part of Earth that encompasses all water they need?
Hydrosphere
400
What gas is X ?
Carbon Dioxide
400
Which type of population dispersion is shown in the image?
Clumped
400
A geothermal power plant is what type of energy?
Renewable Energy
400
During winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere is in which season?
Summer
400
Double Jeopardy Sharks and remora fish are what type of symbiotic relationship?
Commensal
400
Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? What is it?
A shirt
600
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Someone must have forgotten to take out the trash. Inference or observation
Inference
600
Name a way the atmosphere and hydrosphere interact
Precipitation, Clouds
600
Organisms that eat dead carcasses
Scavengers
600
The type of curve the population growth of this pyramid will be
What is a J-shaped or exponential growth curve?
600
What is one way to conserve energy?
Answers can vary
600
What do greenhouse gases do (in the Earth’s atmosphere)?
Trap heat
600
What causes 75% of extinctions?
Habitat Destruction & Fragmentation
600
A is the brother of B. B is the brother of C. C is the father of D. So how is D related to A?
A is D’s uncle.
800
What is the proper sentence structure for writing a hypothesis?
If, then, because
800
Layer of the atmosphere that has the ozone layer
Stratosphere
800
Trophic level of an herbivore
Primary Consumer
800
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Name 2 characteristics of a developing country
rapid pop growth, weak social support, agricultural society, low income per capita
800
What are 2 cons of nuclear energy?
Accidents, nuclear waste, expensive to build, etc.
800
atmospheric heating of Earth’s climate observed since the pre-industrial era (1850-1900) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning.
Global warming
800
Organism that has a type 1 survivorship
humans and large mammals
800
What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they’re added or multiplied?
One, Two, and Three
1+2+3=6
1x2x3=6
1000
The growth of plants placed in three different colored lights are measured. How would you label the y-axis of this graph?
Growth of the plants (Height of plants)
1000
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Atmospheric Pressure system that is cloudy and stormy
Low pressure system
1000
Name a tertiary consumer
Coyote, Roadrunner, or Hawk
1000
What is the growth rate of this country?
growing rapidly
1000
Discharge from a factory spilling into a body of water is what form of pollution?
Point source pollution
1000
Name 1 piece of evidence of climate change
Global land and ocean temperature increases
Sea level rise
Sea ice loss
Ocean acidification
More severe and frequent weather
1000
What type of survivorship curve is this?
Type I
1000
Steve was murdered on Saturday afternoon. His wife said she was reading. The doorman said he was in the shower. The chef said he was making breakfast. The gardener was pruning hedges. From the information given, who committed the murder?
The chef because Steve was murdered in the afternoon yet the chef’s alibi was that he was making breakfast.
1200
Double Jeopardy The acceleration of different cars are measured for 5 trials in a row. The types of tires are kept the same. What is the dependent variable?
The acceleration of the cars
1200
A trench in the ocean is what type of plate boundary?
divergent
1200
If a rabbit eats a blade of grass and a snake eats a rabbit about what percentage of the energy from the grass is the snake receiving?
1%
1200
A solution to overpopulation
What is providing economic and educational opportunities for women?
1200
Fertilizer leaking into a body of water can causes this green phenomenon
Artificial eutrophication
1200
Name 1 negative effect of glacial melting
Sea levels rise
shoreline erosion
Coastal flooding
1200
What are 2 benefits of biodiversity?
Species are Interconnected
Species & Population Survival- Larger populations have greater genetic diversity = better survival of changes
Medical Uses
Industrial Uses
Agricultural Uses
Ethics, Aesthetics, & Recreation
1200
What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?
Chicago
1400
What is the acronym for knowing where the variables go on a graph?
D.R.Y. M.I.X.
1400
Double Jeopardy What is a subduction zone?
Convergent boundary: oceanic crust sinking beneath continental crust
1400
1 Difference between primary & secondary succession
Secondary needs pre-existing soil, Secondary is faster, Primary starts with barren or exposed rock, Secondary starts after a natural or human caused disaster
1400
This country's stage of demographic transition (Stage # and Name)
What is stage 4 and post industrial?
1400
What is an environmental issue with landfills?
Methane production, leachate leaking, running out of space
1400
What is the albedo effect?
the ability of surfaces (like ice) to reflect light
1400
an organism with a constant mortality rates across all age groups
Type II survivorship organism
1400
What are the next three letters in this combination? OTTFFSS
E, N, T (Eight, Nine, Ten)