1. This is Jeopardy Evolution To make this game…
First think of five review categories and five questions for each category.
Add the categories to the top of the table in slide 2.
Place your questions according to the categories into the slides. For example…C1-200 is the question for Category 1 worth 200 points. C5-400 is the question for Category 5 worth 400 points.
Place a final jeopardy question in the Final Jeopardy box.
Test your slide show.
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2. Category No. 1 Category No. 2 Category No. 3 Category No. 4 No. 5 100
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To play the game.
Divide you class into teams. If you have bells or some other way of emulating ringing in your answers, knock yourself out!
The contestant chooses a category and a point value. Click on their choice and you will advance to the associated slide. Click on the slide to reveal the answer. Once the contestant has stated the question click on the slide again to reveal the question. Click BACK to return to the Categories Slide.
The first contestant from team 1 goes first then I alternate to the next team.
Final Jeopardy

3. C1-100-The answer is…
During his travels Darwin noticed this structural adaptation of finches.
Different beaks
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4. C1-200-The answer is… Acquired trait
A giraffe stretching his neck or a person building big muscles is an example of this.
Acquired trait
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5. C1-300-The answer is…
Darwin gathered much of his evidence of evolution on these islands.
Galapagos
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6. C1-400-The answer is…
Hutton and Lyell influenced Darwin because they suggested that …
Earth was old enough for evolution to have occurred.
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7. C1-500-The answer is…
Darwin’s revolutionary scientific ideas were published in a work titled
On the Origin of the Species
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8. C2-100-The answer is… The definition of “fitness” is
Most able to survive and reproduce
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9. C2-200-The answer is… Artificial selection
When a farmer breeds only his best livestock, the process involved is called
Artificial selection
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10. C2-300-The answer is…
The appendix in humans and pelvis in whales are examples of
Vestigial organs.
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11. C2-400-The answer is… This was the missing link in Darwin’s Theory
Genetics - DNA
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12. C2-500-The answer is…
Structures that look somewhat alike and serve the same function but have different embryological origins.
Analagous
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13. C3-100-The answer is…
Most fossils form here.
Sedimentary rock
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14. C3-200-The answer is…
Miller and Urey’s experiments attempted to demonstrate this.
How organic molecules formed
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15. C3-300-The answer is… Index fossil
To compare the relative age of fossils, scientists often use an easily recognized species called a/an
Index fossil
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16. C3-400-The answer is…
The endosymbiotic theory proposes that eukaryotic cells arose from …
A symbiotic relationship between 2 prokaryotes
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17. C3-500-The answer is… Why did oceans not exist 4 billion years ago?
Water was a gas because so hot
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18. C4-100-The answer is… The first organisms on Earth were most likely?
Bacteria
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19. C4-200-The answer is…
In the past, mass extinctions encouraged the rapid evolution of surviving species by….
Making new habitats available to them
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20. C4-300-The answer is…
Spontaneous generation is the hypothesis that life comes from?
Non-living matter
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21. C4-400-The answer is…
The process by which 2 species evolve in response to each other is called..
Coevolution
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22. C4-500-The answer is…
The type of evolution represented by Darwin’s Finches.
Divergent evolution or adaptive radiation.
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23. C5-100-The answer is…
This theory states that life comes from other life.
biogenesis
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24. C5-200-The answer is…
Which gas is the most predominant in our atmosphere?
Nitrogen
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25. C5-300-The answer is…
Organisms that have similar genetic make-ups have a
Recent common ancestor
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26. C5-400-The answer is…
Fossilized evidence of Earth’s first life forms would consist of:
Prokaryotes from the Precambrian
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27. C6-500-The answer is…
What was the significance of the formation of the ozone layer?
Protected land animals from UV radiation
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28. Final Jeopardy
List and explain four possible causes of the mass extinctions that have occurred in Earth’s history.
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End Game

29. Final Jeopardy Answer Volcanic Activity Climate change
Meteors or Asteroids
Disease
Mountain building
Sea level change
Competing organisms
Over-specialization