2. 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 Next round 100 200 300 400 500 Life? Scientific Method Microscopes EcologyEvolution Classification

3. Life?100 3 abiotic factors Ans: What is sun, wind, rain, rock, temperature, fire, etc.? Return.

4. Life?200 7 characteristics of life Ans: What is reproduction, growth & development, homeostasis, change through time, organization & cells, response to stimuli, metabolism? Return.

5. Life?300 3 essential requirements of living organisms Ans: What are nutrients, water, energy? Return.

6. Life? 400 Main types of nutrients needed by living organisms Ans: What are carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids? Return.

7. Life? 500 Main elements found in living organisms Ans: What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen? Return.

8. Scientific Method100 An educated guess, a statement that is testable Ans: What is a hypothesis? Return.

9. Scientific Method 200 The variable that is changed by the experimentor Ans: What is the independent variable? Return.

10. Scientific Method 300 Purpose of a control Ans: What is to provide a comparison to the experimental situation? Return.

11. Scientific Method 400 A set of hypotheses that have been confirmed many times by a great amount of data Ans: What is a theory? Return.

12. Scientific Method 500 Miracle Grow makes plants grow taller than plain water. Identify the variables and constants. Ans: What is independent—miracle grow, dependent—height of plants, constants—same type of plants, same water, same sunlight, soil, etc, control=plant with plain water? Return.

13. Microscopes100 Adjusts the amount of light Ans: What is the diaphragm? Return.

14. Microscopes 200 Total magnification of the high power on our microscopes Ans: What is 400X (40X x 10X)? Return.

15. Microscopes 300 The ability to see more detail Ans: What is resolution? Return.

16. Microscopes 400 Moves when the coarse or fine adjustment knob is turned Ans: What is the stage? Return.

17. Microscopes 500 Steps of making a wet mount slide and observing it Ans: What is put a drop of liquid on slide, gently drop the coverslip (don’t touch edges), place on stage with lowest power objective in place, focus with coarse adjustment, center your object and move to next power, refocus with fine adjustment? Return.

18. Ecology100 Levels of organization of the environment Ans: What is biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organism? Return.

19. Ecology 200 Definition of ecosystem Ans: What is living and non- living factors interacting in a specific area? Return.

20. Ecology 300 Transfer of energy Ans: What is a food chain? Return.

21. Ecology 400 A plant and an animal adaptation for a desert ecosystem Ans: What is needles instead of leaves to reduce transpiration, large ears to dissipate heat? Return.

22. Ecology 500 Path of nitrogen from atmosphere to animal Ans: What is nitrogen fixation by bacteria, ammonification, formation of nitrates used by plants, animal eats plants? Return.

23. Evolution100 Trait that aids in survival Ans: What is an adaptation? Return.

24. Evolution 200 What a bell shaped curve shows Ans: What is an even distribution of traits in a population? Return.

25. Evolution 300 Steps in creating a new species Ans: What is selection pressure, altering fitness based on environmental changes or competition? Return.

26. Evolution400 Two types of isolation that lead to speciation Ans: What are geographical and behaviorial? Return.

27. Evolution 500 a branching point in a tree of life shows Ans: What is a common ancestor for each line from the branching point? Return.

28. Classification 100 Parts of a scientific name Ans: What are Genus species? Return.

29. Classification 200 Three domains Ans: What are Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya? Return.

30. Classification 300 Kingdoms found in Eukarya Ans: What are Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Animalia? Return.

31. Classification 400 Characteristics of fungi kingdom Ans: What are multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotrophic, but absorbs food rather than ingests it? Return.

32. Classification 500 Unicellular, eukaryotic organisms Ans: What are protists? Return.

33. DAILY DOUBLE

34. Double Jeopardy

35. 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 Cycles Species Interactions Classification Biochemistry GraphingEnergy

36. Cycles200 Processes involved in the water cycle Ans: What are precipitation, runoff, infiltration, transpiration, evaporation? Return.

37. Cycles 400 Return. Importance of the nitrogen cycle Ans: What is component of proteins?

38. Cycles 600 Main processes of the carbon cycle Ans: What is photosynthesis, decompostion, combustion and respiration? Return.

39. Cycles 800 Only organism that can use Nitrogen directly from the atmosphere Ans: What are nitrogen fixing bacteria? Return.

40. Cycles 1000 Energy ______and matter _______ Ans: What is flows, cycles? Return.

41. Species interactions 200 Two organisms struggle to share the same resources Ans: What is competition? Return.

42. Species interactions 400 One organism eats another Ans: What is predation? Return.

43. Species interactions 600 Ans: What is commensalism? Return. One organism is benefited and the other is unaffected

44. Species interactions 800 A close living together of two different species Ans: What is symbiosis? Return..

45. Species interactions 1000 Relationship where one species is harmed and the other is benefited Ans: What is parasitism? Return.

46. Classification200 The kingdom(s) of Bacteria Ans: What is Eubacteria? Return.

47. Classification 400 Ans: What is a cladogram? Return. A branching diagram that shows evolutionary relationships

48. Classification 600 Ans: What is a species? Return. A group of organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring

49. Classification 800 Ans: What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, species? Return.. The classificaiton levels of the Linnaean system

50. Classification 1000 Moving _____the Linnaean system results in less characteristics in common, but more types of organisms includ ed Ans: What is up? Return.

51. Biochemistry200 Force that allows water to travel up a plant Ans: What is cohesion? Return.

52. Biochemistry400 Nutrients that provide the most energy Ans: What are carbohydrates and fats? Return.

53. Biochemistry600 The breakdown products of carbohydrates Ans: What are simple sugars (monosaccharides)? Return.

54. Biochemistry800 Breakdown products of proteins Ans: What are amino acids? Return.

55. Biochemistry1000 Energy sources for extremophiles Ans: What are chemical elements such as sulfur? Return.

56. Graphing 200 Organizes data that compares different subsets to each other Ans: What is a bar graph? Return.

57. Graphing400 Ans: What is a line graph? Return. Shows the relationship between two variables in a linear fashion

58. Graphing 600 Ans: What is y axis? Return. Location of the dependent variable

59. Graphing 800 Location of the independent variable Ans: What is x-axis? Return.

60. Graphing 1000 Ans: What is title, labeled axes, key, data points? Return. Things all graphs should contain

61. Energy 200 Interconnected food chains Ans: What is a food web? Return.

62. Energy 400 What happens to energy as you move through a food chain or food web Ans: What is decreases? Return.

63. Energy 600 When one organism is removed from a web it has an affect on the carrying capacity of_______ Ans: What is all organisms that are connected to the affected species ? Return.

64. Energy 800 Autotrophs _____their food Heterotrophs _______their food Ans: What produce, eat? Return.

65. Energy 1000 More than one species can occupy the same habitat but not the same _______ Ans: What is niche? Return.

66. DAILY DOUBLE

67. DAILY DOUBLE

68. Final Jeopardy

69. Ecology A forest returns after a fire through the process known as ________ ANS: What is secondary succession?