Welcome! The Topic For Today Is… LET’S SEE WHAT YOU LEARNED!!!

1. Welcome! The Topic For Today Is… LET’S SEE WHAT YOU LEARNED!!!

2. WHAT DID YOU LEARN

3. Wet n’ Wild: 200 • Question: • The portion of the Earth’s surface that is covered with water.. • Answer • What is 75-80%? Back

4. Wet n’ Wild:400 • Question: • All watersheds that drain to the same river are know as this. • Answer • What is a river basin? Back

5. Wet n’ Wild:600 • Question: • The attraction between liquid water molecules. • Answer • What is a hydrogen bond? Back

6. Wet n’ Wild:800 • Question: • This group of animals swim freely in water. • Answer • What are nekton? Back

7. Wet n’ Wild: 1000 • Question: • Mayflies, water pennies, and gilled snails are found in this aquatic pollution tolerance group. • Answer • What is pollution intolerant (sensitive)? Back

8. What’s Happening?:200 • Question: • The Buck Steam Station uses this material to generate electricity. • Answer • What is coal? Back

9. What’s Happening?: 400 • Question: • The newest part of the Greensboro Science Center. • Answer • What is the Sciquarium? Back

10. What’s Happening?: 600 • Question: • Rain gardens, terraces, strip cropping, and animal waste management systems are know as this. • Answer • What are Best Management Practices (BMPs)? Back

11. What’s Happening?: 800 • Question: • This kind of erosion is considered to be the leading cause of sediment in the water bodies in Davidson County. • Answer • What is stream bank erosion? Back

12. What’s Happening?: 1000 • Question: • Excess amounts of these nutrients lead to algal blooms in freshwater systems. • Answer • What are nitrogen and phosphorous? Back

13. Wood U?: 200 • Question: • Cellophane, rayon, and plastics are produced from this natural material. • Answer • What is wood? Back

14. Wood U?: 400 • Question: • These fungi help trees to obtain water and nutrients from the soil. • Answer • What are mycorrhizae? Back

15. Wood U?: 600 • Question: • Gymnosperms have this kind of seed. • Answer • What are naked seed? Back

16. Wood U?: 800 • Question: • The living wood in a tree is known as sapwood or this. • Answer • What is xylem? Back

17. Wood U?: 1000 • Question: • 144 cubic inches of wood. • Answer • What is one Board Foot? Back

18. That’s a four letter word: 200 • Question: • The smallest soil particle. • Answer • What is clay? Back

19. That’s a four letter word: 400 • Question: • Well decomposed organic matter forms this dark brown, porous, spongy material that has a pleasant earthy smell. • Answer • What is humus? Back

20. That’s a four letter word: 600 • Question: • This element gives soil a yellowish, brownish, or reddish color. • Answer • What is iron? Back

21. That’s a four letter word: 800 • Question: • This horizon is the transitional layer between the soil and the parent material. • Answer • What is the C horizon? Back

22. That’s a four letter word: 1000 • Question: • Land that has the best combination of physical and chemical characteristics for producing food, feed, fiber, and oil seed crops and is available for these uses. • Answer • What is Prime Farmland? Back

23. Uncivilized Entity: 200 • Question: • Food, water, shelter/cover, space, and proper arrangement. • Answer • What is habitat? Back

24. Uncivilized Entity: 400 • Question: • The main tool to manage wildlife populations. • Answer • What is a hunting? Back

25. Uncivilized Entity: 600 • Question: • Hawks, osprey, falcons, owls, and other large birds of prey fall in this group. • Answer • What are raptors? Back

26. Uncivilized Entity: 800 • Question: • The upper shell of a turtle. • Answer • What is the carapace? Back

27. I can do that: 1000 • Question: • The only marsupial in North America. • Answer • What is the opossum? Back

28. Final Jeopardy • Question: • The Endangered Species Act defines this group as “any species that is likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range.” • Answer • What is a Threatened Species? Back

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