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Weathering/Erosion/Deposition

Forces of Motion/ Photosynthesis

Ecological Succession

Dichotomous Keys and Watersheds

Final Jeopardy

Hosted by the HMS 7th Grade Science Teachers

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Calculating Work

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A-100ANSWER: Breaking down of rock by wind, water, ice, or plants.

QUESTION: What is weathering

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A-200ANSWER: Carrying or washing away of sediments by wind, water, or ice.

QUESTION: What is erosion

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A-300ANSWER: material (as stones and sand) deposited by water, wind, or glaciers

QUESTION: What is “sediment”

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A-400ANSWERGalveston 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 2008.

QUESTION: What is a“ hurricane” or “Hurricane Ike”

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

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ANSWER: Plants recognize this force even when turned and will grow their stems upward and their roots downward.

QUESTION: What is “gravity”?

B-100

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ANSWER: Carbon Dioxide + Water + Energy from the Sun glucose + oxygen

QUESTION: What is photosynthesis

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ANSWER: Is when plants grow toward the sunlight or a light source.

QUESTION: What is the “phototropism”?

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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”?

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ANSWER: This image represents the process of

QUESTION: What is respiration

B-500

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C-100ANSWER: Process of change that occurs in an ecosystem as new plants and animals enter.

QUESTION: What is ecological succession

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ANSWER: Term used to describe a stable (balanced) ecosystem that has completed succession.

QUESTION: What is a climax community

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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

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C-400ANSWER: 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

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C-500ANSWER: Term for the variety of plants and animals in an ecosystem. The greater the _______, the greater the sustainability of an ecosystem.

QUESTION: What is biodiversity

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D-100ANSWER:These are created and used to organize and classify large amounts of information, like plant and animal species.

QUESTION:What is a “dichotomous key”

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ANSWER: Water that enters or seeps into the soil

QUESTION: What is Groundwater?

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ANSWER:Use the Dichotomous Key to identify the Plant species

QUESTION:What isAlibizia julibrissin?

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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.

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D-500ANSWER: Identify the species

QUESTION:What is Problematica cantrellis

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E-100ANSWER: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)

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ANSWER: No, because thebox didn’t move.

QUESTION: What is “Did this man do any work?”

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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”.

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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

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E-500ANSWER: The amount of work done

QUESTION: 50 N X 30 m = 1500 J (joules)

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ANSWER: This experiment is set up to show

QUESTION: How gravity/geotropism effects the growth of a plant

FINAL JEOPARDY