Middle School Science Jeopardy!
Chapters 12-16
Ch.12
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Ch.12-13
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Ch.14
Biomes
Ch.15
Ecosyst
Ch.15
Interact
Ch.16
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Invertebrates 100
These invertebrates are found only
in water and have stinging tentacles
to help capture prey.
Q: What are Cnidarians?
Invertebrates 200
These animals have a tube-shaped body.
Food enters at one end & exits at the other.
They take in oxygen through their skin and
must live in moist environments.
Q: What are worms?
Invertebrates 300
This class of invertebrates may live on land,
freshwater, or saltwater. They have a
muscular foot and a mantle or layer of
folded skin that protects their internal
organs.
Q: What are mollusks?
Invertebrates 400
This class of invertebrates live in the ocean.
Their bodies have radial symmetry and
they have a water vascular system. Their
tube feet allow them to move on the
ocean floor.
Q: What are echinoderms?
Invertebrates 500
An exoskeleton completely covers the body
of an arthropod. For land arthropods, this
structure keeps cells and tissues from
drying out. However, arthropods must
shed this exoskeleton as they grow and are
vulnerable to predators when they molt.
Q: What are advantages and
disadvantages of an exoskeleton?
Invertebrates 100
These invertebrates
have 3
.
body sections (head,
thorax, abdomen) and six
legs.
Q: What are insects?
Invertebrates 200
This class of invertebrates
includes both spiders and
insects. They have many
pairs of legs and other parts
that extend from their bodies.
Q: What are arthropods?
Vertebrates 300
This class of animals is
warm blooded, has hair, and
feeds its young milk.
Q: What are mammals?
Vertebrates 400
This external animal structure
allows for more flexibility and ways
of moving.
Q: What is the advantage of an
endoskeleton?
Vertebrates 500
Newts and salamanders are examples
of this class of vertebrates.
Q: What is an amphibian?
Ecosystems/Biomes 100
Living parts of an ecosystem
(plants or animals) are called
this.
Q: What are biotic factors?
Ecosystems/Biomes 200
Non living parts of an ecosystem are called
this. (Water, Sunlight, Soil, Temperature,
Air, etc.)
Q: What are abiotic factors?
Ecosystems/Biomes 300
The number of living organisms that a
given area can support.
Q: What is carrying capacity?
Ecosystems/Biomes 400
Cattail
^
caterpillar
^
frog
^
Heron
This is an example of what type of energy flow?
Q: What is a food chain?
Ecosystems/Biomes 500
A type of model that illustrates the
feeding relationships between many
different producers and consumers in
a complex feeding pattern that
overlaps and is interconnected.
Q: What is a food web?
Ecosystem Interactions 100
Biome, ecosystem, community,
population, organism
Q: What are the 5 levels of organization
in an environment?
Ecosystem Interactions 200
An interaction between two
species that benefits both
species.
Q: What is mutualism?
Ecosystem Interactions 300
McDougal-Littel or Holt
Q: What are the two science books for
grades 6?
Ecosystem Interactions 400
A relationship between two
species in which one species
benefits while the other is not
affected (neither harmed or
helped).
Q: What is commensalism?
Ecosystem Interactions 500
The establishment of a new
biological community in an
environment that is barren (little
or no topsoil present at first).
Q: What
is primary succession?
Ecosystem Interactions 100
A relationship between two species
where one species benefits and the
other is harmed.
Q: What is parasitism?
Ecosystem Interactions 200
This generally describes the climate
and types of plants found in similar
places around the world..
Q: What is a biome?
Ecosystem Interactions 300
The living and non-living factors
that interact with each other to
form a stable environment
including only organisms and their
local environment. Smaller than a
biome.
Q: What is a community?
Ecosystem Interactions 400
The establishment of another
ecological community after a major
disturbance (like fire, flood) within a
stable environment where topsoil still
remains after the disturbance.
Q:What is secondary succession?
Ecosystem Interactions 500
Mutualism, Commensalism,
Parasitism.
Q: What are the 3 types of symbosis?
Human Impact 100
Resources that cannot be replaced
quickly enough by natural
means.
Q: What are non-renewable resources?
Human Impact 200
Resources that can be managed and used
over and over again.
Q: What are renewable resources?
Human Impact 300
Coal, Petroleum, natural gas, silver,
gold, etc. are examples of these
Q: What are non-renewable resources?
Human Impact 400
The number and variety of life forms in an
ecosystem as a measure of this.
Q: What is biodiversity?
Human Impact 500
Polluting the air, water, or soil.
Destroying or changing animal
habitats. Using up natural resources
at too fast a rate.
Q: How have humans negatively
impacted the environment?