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2. Your Topic Science of Biology The BiosphereBiomesPopulationsHumans in the Biosphere 200 400 600 800 1000 Bonus Question: 5000 pts

3. Topic 1: 200 Question: Science differs from other disciplines, such as history and the arts, because science relies on Answer Theories

4. Topic 1: 400 Answer: Data Questions Measurements made while observing a plant grow 3 cm over a two-week period are called

5. Topic 1: 600 Question: Based on your observations, you suggest that the presence of water could accelerate the growth of aloe vera plants. This is Answer A hypothesis

6. Topic 1: 800 Question: How many meters are in 3.4 km? Answer 3400 meters

7. Topic 1: 1000 Question: An experiment in which only one variable is changed is a(an) experiment. Answer Controlled Experiment

8. Topic 2: 200 Answer: Web Questions All the interconnected feeding relationships in an ecosystem make up a food ______

9. Topic 2: 400 Question: The total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level is called the _______ Answer Biomass

10. Topic 2: 600 Question: What animals eat both producers and consumers? Answer Omnivores

11. Topic 2: 800 Question: Animals that get energy by eating the carcasses of other animals that have been killed by predators or have died of natural causes are called _______ Answer Scavangers

12. Topic 2: 1000 Question: Give an example of how the biotic factors in an ecosystem can affect the abiotic factors. Answer

13. Topic 3: 200 Question:. In which location would you find plants that grow year round? Mexico City or Kansas City? Answer Mexico City

14. Topic 3: 400 Question: natural situation in which atmospheric gases trap heat inside Earth’s atmosphere Answer Greenhouse Effect

15. Topic 3: 600 Question: the average yearly condition of temperature and precipitation in a region Answer Climate

16. Topic 3: 800 Question: interaction in which an organism feeds on a primary producer Answer Herbivore

17. Topic 3: 1000 Question: What biome makes up Metro-Chicago area? Answer Temperate Grassland

18. Topic 4: 200 Question: Give an example of a limiting factor. Answer Food, water, weather, etc.

19. Topic 4: 400 Question: A graph showing logistic growth uses what kind of curve? Answer S-curve

20. Topic 4: 600 Question: If one population of pine trees consists of 25 trees in 5 square kilometers and another population consists of 25 trees in 2 square kilometers, which population has the higher density? Answer 25 trees in 2 square kilometers

21. Topic 4: 800 Question: In 1990 40 zebras were born and 15 died at the Lincoln Park Zoo. In 1995 55 zebras were born and 22 died. Which year had the largest growth rate and what was the growth rate? Answer 1995 the growth rate was 33 zebras

22. Topic 4: 1000 Question: Explain how predator and prey populations limit each other’s growth rates. Answer When the prey population increases so does the predator population (more food), when the prey population decreases (predators are eating the prey) so does the predator population (starvation)

23. Topic 5: 200 Question: What caused the 1930s Dust Bowl in the Great Plains? Answer Soil Erosion

24. Topic 5: 400 Question: What is the gray-brown haze often found over large cities? Answer Smog

25. Topic 5: 600 Question: What happens to the concentration of DDT as it moves up the tropic levels in food chains or food webs? Answer The concentration of DDT increases

26. Topic 5: 800 Question: What is it called when farming, overgrazing, climate change, and/or seasonal drought change farmland into land that cannot support plant life? Answer desertification

27. Topic 5: 1000 Question: How can farmers reduce soil erosion? Answer Plowing and tilling their land

28. Bonus Question: 5000 pts. Question: How would you determine whether something is living or nonliving? List 3 factors Answer … 1. Able to grow and develop, 2. response to environment, 3. able to reproduce

29. The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question write you win that money If you get it wrong you Loss the money!

30. The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question write you win that money If you get it wrong you Loss the money!