Chemistry of Life Jeopardy Atoms Atom Interactions Water Life Substances Miscellaneous 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 Final Jeopardy

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Atoms - 100 ANSWER: The smallest particle of an element that has characteristics of that element. QUESTION: Atom

Atoms - 200 ANSWER: Substance that can’t be broken down into a simpler chemical substance. QUESTION: Element

Atoms - 300 ANSWER: This is the number of elements that occur naturally in the universe. QUESTION: 92

Atoms - 400 ANSWER: The two particles that make up the nucleus of an atom. QUESTION: Protons and Neutrons

Atoms - 500 ANSWER: The general location of electrons in an atom. QUESTION: Electron Cloud

Atom Interactions - 100 ANSWER: Substance that is composed of atoms of two or more different elements that are chemically combined. QUESTION: Compound

Atom Interactions - 200 ANSWER: Chemical reactions that occur within an organism. QUESTION: Metabolism

Atom Interactions - 300 ANSWER: pH of 8 QUESTION: Base

Atom Interactions - 400 ANSWER: Carbon-14 vs. Carbon-12 QUESTION: Isotope

Atom Interactions - 500 ANSWER: Most common bond in compounds found in organisms. QUESTION: Covalent Bond

Water - 100 ANSWER: Percent of water found in most organisms QUESTION: 70-95%

Water - 200 ANSWER: Continuous movement but no overall concentration change. QUESTION: Dynamic Equillibrium

Water - 300 ANSWER: Molecule with unequal distribution of charge. QUESTION: Polar Molecule

Water - 400 ANSWER: Net movement of particles from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. QUESTION: Diffusion

Water - 500 ANSWER: List the 4 main types of organic compounds that make up living things. QUESTION: Carbs, Proteins, Lipids & Nucleic Acids.

Life Substances - 100 ANSWER: Substances that contain carbon. QUESTION: Organic Compounds

Life Substances - 200 ANSWER: The number of covalent bonds that must be formed for Carbon to be stable. QUESTION: 4

Life Substances - 300 ANSWER: The building blocks for proteins. QUESTION: Amino acids

Life Substances - 400 ANSWER: Protein that changes the rate of chemical reactions. QUESTION: Enzyme

Life Substances - 500 ANSWER: An element that proteins contain that lipids and carbohydrates do not. QUESTION: Nitrogen or Sulfur

Miscellaneous - 100 ANSWER: Another term for saccharide. QUESTION: Sugar

Miscellaneous - 200 ANSWER: KoolAid is an example of this type of mixture. QUESTION: Solution

Miscellaneous - 300 ANSWER: An organic compound that contains approximately twice as much hydrogen as oxygen. QUESTION: Carbohydrate.

Miscellaneous - 400 ANSWER: The smaller subunits that make up nucleic acids. QUESTION: Nucleotides.

Miscellaneous - 500 ANSWER: Number of amino acids. QUESTION: 20

FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: Nucleotides make up this very important nucleic acid. It holds the genetic instructions for each of us. QUESTION: DNA