Enjoy _______ Jeopardy! Choose players or groups - Individuals or Teams can play! Plan a way for contestants to indicate they want to answer (tap desk, ring bell, clicker, etc.) Player #1 or Team #1 chooses a category and question dollar amount first. Teacher reads the “answer” completely, then contestants can respond. After a response is given by a player, click anywhere on the slide to see the correct response. Record the contestant’s score – You gain the dollar amount if correct; lose the dollar amount if incorrect. Then, click “To Game Board” and continue the game until all categories are finished.
Water Cycle Carbon Dioxide & Oxygen Cycle Fossil fuels, Carbon, & Air Ecosystems regulating themselves Making a difference Game Board $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Final Jeopardy $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500
These are the four processes in the Water Cycle. $100
What is Evaporation, Transpiration, Condensation, and Precipitation? $100 To Game Board
The process of changing a liquid into a vapour. $200
What is evaporation? $200 To Game Board
These are the four forms of precipitation depending on the temperature. $300
What is rain, sleet, snow, and hail? $300 To Game Board
The process of changing a vapour to a liquid. $400
What is condensation? $400 To Game Board
Solid water (ice) can change directly into water vapour without going through the liquid stage. $500
What is sublimation? $500 To Game Board
Is the oxygen-using process that takes place in the cells of living things to get the energy out of food. $100
What is respiration? $100 To Game Board
This is when plants make their own food. $200
What is photosynthesis? $200 To Game Board
A gas made up of carbon and oxygen. $300
What is carbon dioxide? $300 To Game Board
The process by which carbon dioxide and oxygen are cycled and recycled in the biosphere. $400
What is the carbon dioxide and oxygen cycle? $400 To Game Board
In some ways this is the opposite of photosynthesis. $500
What is respiration? $500 To Game Board
Over the past 100 years, this cycle has been greatly unbalanced due to excess gas released into the atmosphere. $100
What is the carbon cycle? $100 To Game Board
Gases, such as carbon dioxide, that result from the burning of fossil fuels. $200
What are greenhouse gases? $200 To Game Board
Fuels that originated from plants, such as plankton and phytoplankton, that died and decomposed millions of year ago. They were preserved deep into the ground. $300
What are fossil fuels? $300 To Game Board
A gradual warming of the Earth’s atmosphere. $400
What is global warming? $400 To Game Board
Three types of fossil fuels that we use everyday to make electricity, drive cars, and heat our homes. $500
What are coal, oil (petroleum), and natural gas? $500 To Game Board
An abiotic or biotic factor that restricts the number of individuals in a population. $100
What is a limiting factor? $100 To Game Board
A result of natural events, such as volcanic eruptions and changing ocean temperatures. $200
What are climate changes? $200 To Game Board
This is an example of the regeneration of a burned forest area. $300
What is secondary succession? $300 To Game Board
A measure of the number of different species living in an ecosystem. $400
What is diversity? $400 To Game Board
These are five examples of natural limiting factors in an ecosystem. $500
What are predator/prey populations, competition for resources, diseases/parasites, climate changes/weather patterns, and forest fires? $500 To Game Board
This is a site where garbage is disposed of by being buried under a shallow layer of soil. $100
What is a landfill? $100 To Game Board
The three R’s. $200
What are reduce, re-use, recycle? $200 To Game Board
This is produced when garbage decomposes in a landfill. $300
What is methane? $300 To Game Board
Garbage in landfills can also contribute to these two types of pollution. $400
What is soil and water pollution? $400 To Game Board
The disappearance of the ant population from the Earth would be a disaster because they complete these four important jobs in their ecosystem. $500
What is turn the soil, eat other insects, are scavengers of dead animals, and pollinate plants? $500 To Game Board
Final Jeopardy Category: Technology and Nature’s Regulators Click for “Answer”
In the 1930’s, scientists introduced this virus to control the rabbit population. Click to see the correct response!
What is myxomatosis? Exit Game
Thank You for Playing Acknowledgements: Graphics: Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media Jeopardy Template: B. Burkett October 2003
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