1. Science Jeopardy Chapter 6 – PHOTOSYNTHESIS
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3. A-100
QUESTION:
During his voyage on the Beagle, Darwin made many observations on which continent?
ANSWER: South America

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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…)

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

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

11. 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

12. 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

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

14. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

22. 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

23. 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.