Geography
Brain Chemicals
Oceanography
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Zoology
100

This is the longest mountain range in the world above sea level (in South America).

What are the Andes Mountains?

100

What is norepinephrine?

Neurotransmitter that influences alertness, stress response, and our flight-or-flight response.

100

This is the top layer of the ocean, where sunlight penetrates and photosynthesis can occur.

What is the epipelagic zone?

100

What is tangible support?

Answer-dependent

100

Animals with backbones are called this.

What are vertebrates?

200

This desert is the largest hot desert in the world.

What is the Sahara Desert?

200

Which of these remarks is false (more than one):

1-Mental illness only affects your thoughts, not your body. 

2-Brain scans can show physical differences in people with depression. 

3-People with depression just need to think more positively

1 and 3

200

This phenomenon, involving a periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean, disrupts weather worldwide.

What is El Niño?

200

What are 2 examples of informational support?

Answer dependent

200

Animals that are active at night are known as nocturnal; animals that are active during the day are known as

What is diurnal?

300

This tectonic plate is the largest on Earth.

What is the Pacific Plate?

300

Pleasure, reward, and motivation is governed by which neurotransmitter

Dopamine

300

These microscopic plant-like organisms form the base of the oceanic food chain.

What are phytoplankton?

300

What is urge surfing?

a technique for managing your unwanted behaviors. Rather than giving in to an urge, you will ride it out, like a surfer riding a wave. After a short time, the urge will pass on its own.

300

This protein makes up the hair, feathers, and hooves of many animals.

What is keratin?

400

This country has the most volcanoes in the world.

What is Indonesia?

400

This neurotransmitter is associated with calming and reduces neural activity.

GABA (Gamma-aminobutyric acid) 

400

These large, circular ocean current systems are found in each major ocean basin.

What are gyres?

400

For urge surfing, what are 3 examples of delay and distraction which will help weaken the urge over time?

Answer-dependent

400

This is the largest land animal on Earth.

What is African Elephant?

500

This African nation completely surrounds the country of Lesotho.

What is South Africa?

500

What is Glutamate?

a neurotransmitter which influences learning and memory.

500

Also called the “midnight zone,” this ocean layer receives no sunlight.

What is the bathypelagic zone?

500

At the peak of the urge (in urge surfing), what happens?

PEAK: The urge reaches its most intense point. It may feel as if the urge will never go away.

500

This type of learning occurs when an animal forms an attachment during a critical early period.

What is imprinting?