Science Jeopardy Chapter 6 – PHOTOSYNTHESIS CHAPTER 14 (I) CHAPTER 14 (II) CHAPTER 15 (I) CHAPTER 15 (II) 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 Final Jeopardy

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A-100 QUESTION: During his voyage on the Beagle, Darwin made many observations on which continent? ANSWER: South America

A-200 QUESTION: Darwin, using the ideas of Lyell, emphasized that gradual geological events (erosion, earthquakes, etc.) in the past could explain…. ANSWER: the physical features of today’s Earth

A-300 QUESTION: Explain how fossil records can provide evidence for evolution ANSWER: positions within the rock layers (strata)give approximate age of organisms; shows the change in species over time

A-400 QUESTION: Which economist said that populations can grow faster than the rate at which food and resources can be produced. ANSWER: Thomas Malthus

A-500 QUESTION: When farmers select animals or plants for breeding desired traits this is called ANSWER: Artificial selection

B-100 QUESTION: What are vestigial structures? Give an example. ANSWER: Remnant structures that used to be useful to an ancestor but have no clear function today (ex. Whale hip bones, coccyx, appendix…)

B-200 QUESTION: A change in the gene pool (allele frequency) of a population due to chance is called? ANSWER: genetic drift

B-300 QUESTION: Darwin’s theory of evolution is based on the idea(s) of ANSWER: Variation and Natural Selection

B-400 QUESTION: Explain how our ‘Birds on and Island’ Lab helped explained the findings of Rosemary and Peter Grant’s study of the Galapagos finches. ANSWER: Food availability affected beak size

B-500 QUESTION: Charles Darwin’s observations that finches of different species on the Galapagos Islands have many similar physical characteristics supports the hypothesis that these finch species… ANSWER: originated from a common ancestor

C-100 QUESTION: The separation of populations by barriers such as rivers, mountains, or bodies of water is called ANSWER: geographic isolation

C-200 QUESTION: Look at the phylogenetic tree, what two pieces of information does it tell you? ANSWER: Wolves, leopards and house cats all have a common ancestor; leopards and house cats are more closely related to each other than they are to wolves.

C-300 QUESTION: Name 3 factors that keeps species separate? ANSWER: reproduction at different times incompatible reproductive structures different mating behaviors

C-400 QUESTION: What is Earth’s most recent era? ANSWER: Cenozoic

C-500 QUESTION: Sometimes, organisms that are not closely related look similar because of which type of evolution? ANSWER: convergent evolution

D-100 QUESTION: ANSWER: What is taxonomy? A method of identifying, naming and classifying species

D-200 QUESTION: A genus is composed of a number of related ANSWER: species

D-300 QUESTION: In the scientific name Panthera pardus, the word Panthera represents the ANSWER: Genus

D-400 QUESTION: An analysis of derived characters is used to generate a ANSWER: Cladogram

D-500 QUESTION: List the hierarchy of the Linnean classification in order from most broad to most specific ANSWER: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION: How has an increasing knowledge about organisms affected the number of kingdoms now recognized by biologists? Explain. ANSWER: As biologists learned more about the natural world, they realized that Linnaeus’s two kingdoms, Animalia and Plantae, did not adequately represent the full diversity of life. As a result, the original two kingdoms have today become four eukaryote kingdoms in one domain and two prokaryote domains.