Interspecific Interactins
Biomes
Rock Cycle
Extinction events
earth and solar system
100

On the Isle Royale on lake superior, there is a wolf population that hunts the moose population

What is Predation

100

Name 5 biomes

What is Lake, Antarctic, Tropical Forests, Arctic Tundra, Boreal Forests

(Marine, River/Streams, Wetlands, Deserts, Grasslands, Savanna, Temperate Forests, Temperate Grassland, and Arctic Alpine are all acceptable answers as well)

100

The three rocks in the rock cycle

What is Sedimentary, Igneous, And Metamorphic

100

How many mass extinctions have there been

What is five

100

The third planet from the sun

What is Earth

200

Positive effect on one species, neutral on the other

What is commensalism 

200

Describe the location of the Arctic Tundra

Answer will vary but is correct as long as they describe somewhere in the north pole area

200

Cooling

What is process to make Igneous rock

200

Known as the great dying

What is the Permian Extinction

200

Age of Earth

What is 4.543 billion years

300

A buffalo steps on a grasshopper

What is Amensalism

300

Describe the climate of the Antarctic

Any phrase that means the Antarctic is a climate of extremes and has freezing temperatures year round

300

Processes to create metamorphic rock

What are Heat and Pressure

300

This mass extinction was 360 million years ago

What is the Late Devonian extiction

300

Cover 71% of Earth

What is water

400

Bacterias break down a decaying deer in the forest

What is Saprotrophism

400

Wildebeest, warthog, Elephant

Elephant grass, Scutch grass, Bermuda grass

What is the Savanna

400

Weathering and Erosion of the three rocks create this 

What is Sediments

400

Caused the extinction of the dinosaurs

What is the K-T extinction

400

Age of our solar system

What is 4.572 billion years

500

The 7 interspecific interactions

(Bonus of 100 points for each example given not already used in an earlier question)

What is amensalism, commensalism, competition, mutualism, parasitism, predation, saprotrophism

(order of answers and examples given may vary) 

500

Three plants and animals that live in Tropical forests

Answers may vary but all answers must live in the Tropical Forest 

(What is Jaguar, Gorilla, Macaw, and Orchids, Poinsettias, and Venus flytraps are possible answers)

500

Daily Double

Fossils are generally found in this rock type

Why?

(Give rock type and explanation)

What is Sedimentary as they form at temperatures and pressures that don't destroy fossils

500

All five mass extinctions

What is Ordovician extinction, Late Devonian extinction, Permian Extinction, Triassic-Jurassic Extinction, K-T Extinction

500

Coolest and hottest layers of Earth

What is crust and inner core