JEOPARDY

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Jeopardy 8th Grade
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Bonus Jeopardy Part 1
Scientific Investigation
Electricity Plus!
Matter or Not
Life Systems
Earth Space
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In order to turn on the light, a piece of wire
needs to be connected between which two letters?
What is A to D?
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The area that shows the amplitude of the wave is -
What is area 3?
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Daily Double
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• Electric bills are calculated based on the amount
  of energy consumed. The consumption is measured
  in units of
• newton meters
• millijoule seconds
• megavolt minutes
• kilowatt hours

What is D?
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Both light bulbs are lit in the circuit below, a
switch must be installed in the place marked by
what number?
What is 1?
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• Which of these is best classified as a mixture?
• Carbon dioxide
• Water
• Soil
• Iron

What is C?
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• Which of these belongs in the outermost shell
  (energy level) of an atom?
• Electrons
• Protons
• Neutrons
• Photons

What is A?
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• A substance made up of two or more elements that
  have been chemically combined is called
• an atom
• a compound
• an element
• a mixture

What is B?
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What is D?
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Daily Double
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A plants green color is due to the presence of
which organelle?
What is chloroplast?
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• Which of these has the greatest influence over
  how big a baby elephant will grow?
• The amount of oxygen in the air
• The amount of food available
• The size of the trees in the jungle
• The type of grass on the plains

What is B?
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• Which biome contains large populations of grazing
  herbivores, few species of birds, and deep, rich
  soil?
• A taiga
• A tundra
• A deciduous forest
• A grassland

What is D?
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What is the next in this series?

• Habitats
• Organisms
• Systems
• Organelles

What is C?
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• Which body in the solar system usually contains
  an atmosphere?
• An asteroid
• A planet
• A meteor
• A comet

What is B?
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• Which of these planets in the solar system was
  the most recently discovered?
• Mars
• Venus
• Jupiter
• Pluto

What is D?
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• The force that holds the planets in orbit around
  the sun is called-
• motion
• friction
• pressure
• gravity

What is D?
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• Which of these has the most influence on ocean
  tides?
• The magnetic field of the Earth
• Gravity between the Earth and the moon
• Radiation from the sun
• Electrical forces in the atmosphere

What is B?
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The diagram shows a graduated cylinder containing
water. From which position will the most accurate
measure of the volume of the water be made?
What is position 3?
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• Which of the following is used to measure the
  mass of an object?
• Balance
• Metric ruler
• Graduated cylinder
• Barometer

What is A?
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This experiment was set up to test the hypothesis
that plants grow faster in green light. The same
amount of water and fertilizer were added to each
pot. Which of these will improve the experiment?

• Use green lights for all these plants
• Add more types of plants
• Use the same kind of plant in all trials
• Use different pots for each plant

What is C?
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This chart represents the type and number of
items collected in a beach cleanup. Based on the
above chart, what percentage of the total items
collected from the beaches was plastic?

• 46
• 49
• 56
• 70

What is C or 56?
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FINAL JEOPARDY
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The location on the track where the train has the
greatest potential energy is -
What is 1 ?
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Double Jeopardy
Charts Graphs
Who Knows
MatterMore
Chains Webs
Last Hope
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Which of these minerals is a carbonate?
A) Calcite (CaCO3) B) Galena (PbS) C) Gypsum
(CaSO4) D) Magnetite (Fe3O4)
What is A?
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• Convection is the result of-
• currents caused by the motion of heated
  molecules
• increases in the density of solids
• colder portions of liquids rising
• the lack of heat transfer

What is A?
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Daily Double
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You break a piece of glass, the shape of the
glass changes, but the properties in the
fragments remain the same. Which of the following
has occurred?

• A chemical change
• A temperature change
• A phase change
• A physical change

What is D?
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Which of the following lists the elements in
order, from those having the least protons to
those having the most protons in the atom?

• O, N, B, Li
• Na, S, Al, Cl
• O, S, Se, Te
• Rb, K, Na, Li

What is C?
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• In the food web shown, which of the following
  consumers eats only producers?
• Hawk
• Owl
• Fox
• Mouse

What is D or Mouse?
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• How are humans classified within a food chain?
• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Manufacturers

What is B?
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In this picture of a pond ecosystem, what would
most likely happen if all the lily plants were
removed from this community?

• The pond water currents would be slower.
• There would be more animals.
• There would be more oxygen in the air.
• The animals would have have fewer places to hide.

What is D?
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• In this food web, which organism has the greatest
  number of food sources?
• Snake
• Hawk
• Shrew
• Mouse

What is B or the Hawk?
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Daily Double
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• At what speed would a car have to move in order
  to travel 20 kilometers in two hours?
• 5 km/hr
• 10 km/hr
• 20 km/hr
• 40 km/hr

What is B or 10 km/hr?
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• Which of these is due entirely to inheritance in
  humans?
• Reading skill
• Eye color
• Endurance
• Broken bones

What is B ?
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• Which of the following is produced as a result of
  photosynthesis?
• Heat
• water
• Oxygen
• Carbon Dioxide

What is C ?
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• Lions usually live in prides made up of a few
  adult females, an adult male, and some younger
  lions. The females hunt together and the kill is
  shared with the pride. The lions method of
  hunting best illustrates-
• cooperation
• competition
• territoriality
• parasitism

What is A?
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Which of these species would be most in danger of
becoming extinct if one of their food sources
became unavailable?
What is Panda?
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• According to this graph, which of these is the
  most important in developing the biomass of these
  plants?
• Nitrates
• Sulfates
• Magnesium
• Iron

What is B?
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• According to the graph, which angle of the
  release would cause the javelin to go the
  farthest?
• 75
• 60
• 45
• 30

What is C or 45?
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According to this chart, which of these animals
is a sea lion? A) B) C) D)
What is C?
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• Which of these resources would give the most
  current, complete and accurate information on
  planets?
• Planet website by Round Rock Middle School
• The NASA website
• A set of general encyclopedias
• A science book about the planets

What is B?
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Bean seeds were placed in a dish lined with a
moist paper towel. Which of these is the
independent (manipulated) variable in this
experiment?

• The type of seed
• The amount of water used
• The number of sprouts
• The temperature of each dish

What is D?
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• A proton has which of the following charges?
• Negative
• Neutral
• Positive
• Magnetic

What is C or positive?
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• The density of an object is dependent upon the
  objects mass and-
• height
• area
• volume
• weight

What is C or volume?
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FINAL JEOPARDY
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• Which of the following environments would you
  expect to find the greatest number of different
  species of plants and animals per square mile?
• An island near the South Pole
• A wheat field in North Dakota
• A pasture on a Virginia farm
• A tropical rain forest in Panama

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