Science%20Jeopardy

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Science Process
Life Science
Processes Cycles
Energy
Earth/Sky
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Created by Mrs. Craft, Mrs. Martin, Mr. Moore
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A-100

• Question Name at least 2 ways you can
  communicate the results of your experiment?
• Answer Table/Chart/Graph

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A-200

• QUESTION Ahkeem wants to test at what
  temperature 100 mL of water freezes. What tools
  would he need?
• ANSWER What are a thermometer, beaker,
  freezer?

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A-300

• QUESTION Name a variable in the experiment
  involving a pendulum. Daily Double Describe the
  effect of the variable
• Answer length of string/ weight/ height of
  drop, etc. Length of string affected the number
  of cycles- longer strings meant fewer cycles. No
  effect for any other variable.

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A-400

• QUESTION April wants to see how many hours of
  light her plant will need to thrive. How could
  she set up an experiment to test her question?
• ANSWER Must involve a variable around time of
  light and controls of soil plant.

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A-500

• QUESTION Heart disease can be caused by a high
  cholesterol diet. Based on the two labels, which
  product would a heart doctor recommend for a
  patient? Explain your reasoning. (see picture
  A-5)
• ANSWER Vegetable oil b/c of lower cholesterol
  amounts (despite higher calories and fat)

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B-100

• QUESTION Name one adaptation that allows this
  animal to survive in its habitat.
• ANSWER What is large ears, large
  feet, fur for camouflage?

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B-200

• QUESTION Which living organism is a producer?
  (View picture B-2)
• ANSWER Any plant in picture

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B-300

• QUESTION If an insecticide was sprayed to kill
  the bugs in this pond, what else might happen?
• (view picture B-3)
• ANSWER Fish might become sick

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B-400

• QUESTIONName two adaptations that allow this
  animal to survive in its habitat AND perform its
  niche, or role, in it. Name both the adaptation
  and describe how it helps the animal perform its
  role.
• ANSWER stripes (camouflage) sharp teeth or
  fangs (killing eating tearing prey) claws
  (catching prey) strong/powerful legs or muscles
  (catching prey). More possible

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B-500

• QUESTION Contrast a learned animal behavior to
  an inherited animal trait. Explain why one is
  learned and one inherited.
• ANSWER answers will vary inherited is born
  with (e.g. hibernating, migrating, color of fur,
  etc.) and learned requires training (e.g.
  hunting, making a dog sit, parrot talking)

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C-100

• QUESTION If Adrianna removes the switch from a
  circuit what will happen?
• ANSWER The circuit will not be complete/closed
  (it will be an open circuit)

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C-200

• QUESTION Two part question
• 1) What keeps planets in orbit around the sun?
• 2) If evaporation never occurred in the water
  cycle, what might happen? (diagram C-2)
• ANSWER
• 1) gravity
• 2) many possible plants die (drown from water
  that never evaporates). No clouds form, no
  additional rain.

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C-300

• QUESTION DAILY DOUBLE (300 per question
  answered- 2 parts)
• 1) What is the niche of bacteria in a food web?
• 2) Name three sources of carbon dioxide and one
  MUST be abiotic
• ANSWER
• 1) Decompose dead material and return nutrients
  to soil for plants to use
• 2) people/animals, air, volcanoes

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C-400

• QUESTION The earth tilts on its axis at about 23
  degrees. What effects would occur if the earth
  did NOT tilt on its axis as it revolved around
  the sun?
• ANSWER There would not be seasons. The sun would
  strike the earth at the same angle during its
  revolution.

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C-500

• QUESTION Draw a leaf on the board and identify
  the necessary elements for photosynthesis and any
  products created during photosynthesis.
• ANSWER Elements required water, carbon
  dioxide, sunlight. Produces oxygen

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D-100

• QUESTION What is the source of nearly all energy
  on earth?
• ANSWER The sun

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D-200

• QUESTION Which of the following uses a
  renewable resource? Explain your answer.
• A B C D
• ANSWER C water is a renewable resource. A oil
  (nonrenewable) B coal (nonrenewable) D oil
  (nonrenewable)

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D-300

• QUESTION Draw a diagram that shows how energy
  flows through an ecosystem.
• ANSWER Can draw a food chain (X?Y ? Z) or a
  food web.

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D-400

• QUESTION Identify three types of energy in this
  picture (view D-4).
• ANSWER light, heat (thermal), electrical

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D-500

• QUESTION Cars in the US run on gasoline refined
  from oil. Cars in Brazil run on ethanol made from
  corn. Why might the United States need to power
  their cars like Brazil?
• ANSWER Oil is a nonrenewable resource.
  Eventually it will be used up and we will no
  longer be able to make gas. The power source
  needs to come from a renewable resource such as
  solar energy or biofuel (plants like corn.)

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E-100

• QUESTION Name all the inner planets in order
  from the sun.
• ANSWER Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

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E-200

• QUESTION How long does it take the Earth to
  complete one rotation?
• ANSWER One day (or 24 hours).

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E-300

• QUESTION Selena visits the moon and steps on a
  scale. She finds that she is 30 pounds lighter.
  How is that possible?
• Bonus 200 points What did NOT change when Selena
  stepped on the moon?
• ANSWER Weight depends on the amount of gravity
  pulling on the object, so weight changes. Bonus
  Mass is the amount of matter the object contains
  and does NOT change.

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E-400

• QUESTION During construction at a new city park
  Marcus notices a huge mound of dirt near the
  sidewalk he walks on to get to school. The day
  after a rainstorm Marcus sees the mound of dirt
  has shrunk, but the sidewalk he walked on before
  is now buried under dirt. Explain the processes
  at work.
• ANSWER Erosion- runoff from the rain carried
  dirt off the mound, eroding it to a smaller size.
  Deposition- the sand that was carried off the
  mound of dirt was deposited, or dropped, in a new
  location- on top of the sidewalk.

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E-500

• QUESTION Explain why we always see the same
  side of the moon.
• ANSWER It takes the moon about 28 days to
  complete one rotation, and that is the same
  amount of time it takes the moon to revolve
  around the Earth. (synchronous rotation)