Science Jeopardy Weathering/Erosion/ Deposition Forces of Motion/ Photosynthesis Ecological Succession Dichotomous Keys and Watersheds Final JeopardyJeopardy Hosted by the HMS 7 th Grade Science Teachers Calculating Work

Question Answer A-100 ANSWER: Breaking down of rock by wind, water, ice, or plants. QUESTION: What is weathering

Question Answer A-200 ANSWER: Carrying or washing away of sediments by wind, water, or ice. QUESTION: What is erosion

Question Answer A-300 ANSWER: material (as stones and sand) deposited by water, wind, or glaciers QUESTION: What is “sediment”

Question Answer A-400 ANSWER Galveston is in the Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes “ecoregion” of Texas. What catastrophic event caused the increase in beach erosion and loss of habitats for animals such as turtles, seagulls, and pelicans in QUESTION: What is a “ hurricane” or “Hurricane Ike”

Question Answer A-500 ANSWER: An example of this is, The Mississippi River Delta. Formed by water carrying sediments and dropping them at the mouth of the river. QUESTION: What is deposition

Question Answer ANSWER: Plants recognize this force even when turned and will grow their stems upward and their roots downward. QUESTION: What is “gravity”? B-100

Question Answer B-200 ANSWER: Carbon Dioxide + Water + Energy from the Sunglucose + oxygen QUESTION: What is photosynthesis

Question Answer B-300 ANSWER: Is when plants grow toward the sunlight or a light source. QUESTION: What is the “phototropism”?

Question Answer B-400 ANSWER: This is the force or pressure that water within the vacuole exerts on the cell wall, pushing it outwards. QUESTION: What is “turgor pressure”?

Question Answer ANSWER: This image represents the process of QUESTION: What is respiration B-500

Question Answer C-100 ANSWER: Process of change that occurs in an ecosystem as new plants and animals enter. QUESTION: What is ecological succession

Question Answer C-200 ANSWER: Term used to describe a stable (balanced) ecosystem that has completed succession. QUESTION: What is a climax community

Question Answer C-300 ANSWER: Term used to describe an ecosystem that is starting in a new area (ex. land/rock formed by a lava flow) where life does not exist. QUESTION: What is primary succession

Question Answer C-400 ANSWER: Term used to describe an environment that begins recover quickly after an event like a fire. There is soil & it once had living things. QUESTION: What is secondary succession

Question Answer C-500 ANSWER: Term for the a variety of plants and animals in an ecosystem. The greater the _______, the greater the sustainability of an ecosystem. QUESTION: What is biodiversity

Question Answer D-100 ANSWER: These are created and used to organize and classify large amounts of information, like plant and animal species. QUESTION: What is a “dichotomous key”

Question Answer ANSWER: Water that enters or seeps into the soil QUESTION: What is Groundwater? D-200

Question Answer D-300 ANSWER: Use the Dichotomous Key to identify the Plant species QUESTION: What is Alibizia julibrissin?

Question Answer D-400 ANSWER: It can contaminate the soil, ground and surface water, and harm plants and animals. It is difficult to clean up. QUESTION: What effect could the oil have on the ecosystem? Oil and water flows down Ceresco Dam as oil spill clean up continues along the Kalamazoo River in Ceresco, Mich. on Thursday, July 29, 2010.

Question Answer D-500 ANSWER: Identify the species QUESTION: What is Problematica cantrellis

Question Answer E-100 ANSWER: This simple machine would help move a box 10m by reducing the amount of force needed to move the box QUESTION: What is an inclined plane (ramp)

Question Answer E-200 ANSWER: No, because the box didn’t move. QUESTION: What is “Did this man do any work?”

Question Answer E-300 ANSWER: It decreases the amount of force needed to move the rock or pull the fish in. QUESTION: What is “how does a lever and fulcrum make work easier”.

Question Answer E-400 ANSWER: If work = force x distance then how much work is done if you push a 52N box 12.5 meters? QUESTION: What is 650J

Question Answer E-500 ANSWER: The amount of work done QUESTION: 50 N X 30 m = 150 J (joules)

Question Answer ANSWER: This experiment is set up to show QUESTION: How gravity/geotropism effects the growth of a plant FINAL JEOPARDY