Science Jeopardy WATERENERGYATMOSPHERECYCLESPESTICIDES Final Jeopardy

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Question Answer A-100 THE NUMBER ONE USE FOR FRESH WATER WHAT IS AGRICULTURE?

Question Answer A-200 A MIXTURE OF FRESH AND SALT WATER WHAT IS BRAKISH WATER?

Question Answer A-300 THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH AIR BECOMES SATURATED AND CONDENSATION BEGINS WHAT IS THE DEW POINT?

Question Answer A-400 AQUIFER UNDER 8 STATES WHICH USED TO HOLD MORE WATER THAN ALL THE FRESHWATER LAKES, STREAMS AND RIVERS ON EARTH WHAT IS THE OGALLA AQUIFER?

Question Answer A-500 THE LOW RAINFALL REGION THAT EXISTS ON THE LEEWARD SIDE OF A MOUNTAIN RANGE WHAT IS A RAIN SHADOW?

Question Answer THE FASTEST GROWING RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE TODAY WHAT IS WIND POWER? B-100

Question Answer B-200 COUNTRY THAT CURRENTLY HAS HIGH COAL RESERVES AND USES THE MOST COAL AS AN ENERGY SOURCE WHAT IS CHINA?

Question Answer B-300 EXPLOSION THAT CONTAMINATED 62,000 SQ MI IN EUROPE AND EXPOSED 500,000 PEOPLE TO DANGEROUS RADIATION WHAT IS THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT?

Question Answer B-400 THE PROCESS USED TO BURN COAL THAT INVOLVES ADDING LIMESTONE TO THE CRUSHED COAL. WHAT IS FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION?

Question Answer B-500 FINE SEDIMENTARY ROCK CONTAINING A MIXTURE OF SOLID, WAXLIKE HYDROCARBONS CALLED KEROGEN WHAT IS OIL SHALE?

Question Answer C-100 CIRCULATION PATTERN THAT DOMINATES OCEAN CURRENTS DUE TO DENSITY, TEMPERATURE, AND SALINITY DIFFERENCES WHAT IS THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION? (CONVEYOR SYSTEM)

Question Answer C-200 FIVE MAJOR GREENHOUSE GASES WHAT ARE WATER VAPOR, CARBON DIOXIDE, METHANE, NITROUS OXIDE, OZONE, AND CFC’S (HALOCARBONS)?

Question Answer C-300 SUNLIGHT REFLECTED BACK INTO SPACE BY CLOUDS, SNOW, ICE, VOLCANIC PARTICULATES, AND AEROSOLS BEFORE REACHING EARTH’S SURFACE WHAT IS PLANETARY ALBEDO?

Question Answer C-400 ATMOSPHERIC LAYER WHERE THE FOLLOWING REACTIONS TAKE PLACE: Cl + O 3 ->ClO + O 2 ClO + ClO-> 2Cl+O 2 WHAT IS THE STRATOSPHERE?

Question Answer C-500 PANEL ESTABLISHED BY THE UN TO PROVIDE ACCURATE AND RELEVANT INFO TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE WHAT IS THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE?

Question Answer D-100 ORGANISMS THAT PRODUCE THEIR OWN ORGANIC MATERIAL FROM INORGANIC CONSTITUENTS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT WHAT ARE AUTOTROPHS?

Question Answer D-200 ORGANISMS THAT FEED ON DEAD ORGANIC MATTER WHAT ARE DETRITUS FEEDERS?

Question Answer D-300 MATTER CYCLE THAT DOES NOT HAVE A GAS PHASE WHAT IS THE PHOSPHORUS CYCLE?

Question Answer D-400 CONVERTING NITROGEN GAS INTO AMMONIUM WHAT IS NITROGEN FIXATION?

Question Answer D-500 THE MOST IMPORTANT ORGANISMS THAT CONVERT NITROGEN GAS INTO AMMONIUM, AND WHERE THEY LIVE WHAT ARE RHIZOBIUM LIVING ON LEGUME ROOTS?

Question Answer E-100 COMBINING CHEMICAL AND ECOLOGICAL PEST MANAGEMENT TO CONTROL PESTS WITH MINIMAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT WHAT IS INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT?

Question Answer E-200 AFTER PESTICIDE USE, THE TARGET PEST POPULATION RECOVERS AND EXPLODES TO HIGHER, MORE SEVERE LEVELS WHAT IS PESTICIDE TREADMILL?

Question Answer E-300 A ZONE THAT OCCURS IN BODIES OF WATER DUE TO NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS WHAT IS A DEAD ZONE?

Question Answer E-400 SUBSTANCE PRODUCED BY INSECTS THAT IS ATTRACTIVE TO TO THE OPPOSITE SEX AND IS USED IN TRAPS. WHAT IS A PHEROMONE?

Question Answer E-500 LAW ADMINISTERED BY THE EPA THAT HAS TOTAL JURISDICTION OVER THE MANUFACTURE, SALE, USE, AND TESTING OF PESTICIDES WHAT IS THE FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND RODENTICIDE ACT?

Question Answer FINAL JEOPARDY THE CONCEPT THAT WHEN TWO SPECIES IN THE SAME HABITAT MUST USE THE SAME RESOURCE, ONE SPECIES WILL EVENTUALLY DIE OUT OR MIGRATE WHAT IS THE COMPETITIVE EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE?