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Welcome! The Topic For Today Is…. Your Topic. Topic 1: 200. Question: The staple food of Adelie penguins Answer What is krill?. Back. Topic 1: 400. Question: The nesting material of Adelie penguins Answer What are penguins?. Back. Topic 1: 600. Question:
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Welcome! The Topic For Today Is…
Topic 1: 200 • Question: • The staple food of Adelie penguins • Answer • What is krill? Back
Topic 1: 400 • Question: • The nesting material of Adelie penguins • Answer • What are penguins? Back
Topic 1: 600 • Question: • Surrounds Adelie penguins’ eyes • Answer • What are white circles? Back
Topic 1: 800 • Question: • The dominant sense that Adelie penguins use for hunting • Answer • What is eyesight? Back
Topic 1: 1000 • Question: • The number of days it takes for Adelie penguin eggs to hatch • Answer • What is 35-37? Back
Topic 2: 200 • Question: • The most dangerous seal for Adelie penguins • Answer • What is a Leopard seal? Back
Topic 2: 400 • Question: • An Antarctic decomposer • Answer • What is filamentous fungi? Back
Topic 2: 600 • Question: • A secondary consumer that competes with Adelie penguins for food • Answer • What is a Weddell seal? Back
Topic 2: 800 • Question: • The main food of krill in the summer • Answer • What is phytoplankton? Back
Topic 2: 1000 • Question: • The main food of krill during the winter • Answer • What is ice algae? Back
Topic 3: 200 • Question: • Exhaustive studies fail to record an individual of a taxon • Answer • What is a definition of extinct? Back
Topic 3: 400 • Question: • Population, geographic range, and fragamentation • Answer • What are factors used to identify an endangered taxon? Back
Topic 3: 600 • Question: • Critically Endangered. Endangered, Vulnerable and Near Threatened • Answer • What are the main categories of risk status? Back
Topic 3: 800 • Question: • The term used to designate a species that is facing an extremely high risk of extinction • Answer • What is critically endangered? Back
Topic 3: 1000 • Question: • There is inadequate information to make a direct or indirect assessment of a taxon’s risk of extinction • Answer • What is the category of “Data Deficient”? Back
Topic 4: 200 • Question: • Releases carbon dioxide in lakes during warm spells • Answer • What is dead algae? Back
Topic 4: 400 • Question: • Climate change causes melting of these • Answer • What are glaciers and icecaps? Back
Topic 4: 600 • Question: • Two opposing impacts of climate change • Answer • What are drought and flooding? Back
Topic 4: 800 • Question: • An approach to reducing emissions of carbon dioxide in an attempt to lower green house gas emissions and slow global warming • Answer • What is carbon neutrality? Back
Topic 4: 1000 • Question: • Three of the six factors that reduce Adelie poplulations around Palmer Station • Answer • What is increased snowfall, less sea ice in winter, less krill, less protection from predators, and higher egg loss and chick mortality? (any three) Back
Topic 5: 200 • Question: • A form of pollution that travels through the air and warms the atmosphere • Answer • What are greenhouse gases? Back
Topic 5: 400 • Question: • Climate change results in these kinds of unpredictable occurrences that harm humans as well as natural and built environments • Answer • What are severe weather events? Back
Topic 5: 600 • Question: • Travels through the air, land and water bodies disrupting the water cycle • Answer • What is pollution? Back
Topic 5: 800 • Question: • Warmer water holds less of this • Answer • What is oxygen? Back
Topic 5: 1000 • Question: • Low oxygen, warm water promotes this “green” phenomenon • Answer • What is an algae bloom? Back
Bonus Question: 5000 pts. • Question: • Replacing automobile use with active and public transit modes, supporting carbon neutral actions and companies, following the three R’s . . . • Answer • What are ways to reduce global climate change and to protect penguins and their habitat? Back
Daily Double The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question right you win that money If you get it wrong you lose the money!
Daily Double The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question right you win that money. If you get it wrong you Lose the money!