This is a jeopardy game used for Grade 8 curriculum review for the final exam.

1. Grade 8 Final Jeopardy
Geology Heredity Chemistry Ecology Evolution
100 100 100 100 100
200 200 200 200 200
300 300 300 300 300
400 400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500 500

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3. Geology-100
• ANSWER: The theory that states that
the continents have moved apart
horizontally to their current
positions.
• QUESTION: What is the continental
drift?
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4. Geology-200
• ANSWER: The theory that states that
Earth’s crust and upper mantle are
broken into sections.
• QUESTION: What is Plate Tectonics?
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5. Geology-300
• ANSWER: The theory that suggested
that hot, less-dense material in the
mantle is forced upward to the
surface at a mid-ocean ridge then
turns and flows sideways carrying
the seafloor away in both directions.
• QUESTION: What is Seafloor
Spreading?
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6. Geology-400
• ANSWER: This is a process done by
measuring the amounts of parent
and daughter material in a rock.
• QUESTION: What is radiometric
dating?
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7. Geology-500
• ANSWER: Fossil Clues, Climate
Clues, and Rock clues are all types
of evidence that scientists collected
for this theory.
• QUESTION: What is the Continental
Drift Theory?
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8. Heredity-100
• ANSWER: The process in which the
nucleus divides to form two identical
nuclei with the same number and
type of chromosomes as the original.
• QUESTION: What is Mitosis?
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9. Heredity-200
• ANSWER: A process of nuclear
division that produces sex cells of 23
chromosomes.
• QUESTION: What is Meiosis?
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10. Heredity-300
• ANSWER: This stores the blueprints
for making proteins which
determines how traits appear in you.
• QUESTION: What is DNA?
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11. Heredity-400
• ANSWER: This is any permanent
change in a gene or chromosome of
a cell.
• QUESTION: What is a mutation?
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12. Heredity-500
• ANSWER: Protein assembly begins
with this as it moves out of the nucleus
and attaches to ribosomes in the
cytoplasm and the other type of this
acid temporarily matches the code.
• QUESTION: What is mRNA and
tRNA?
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13. Chemistry-100
• ANSWER: This number is used to tell
how many protons are in the nucleus
of an atom.
• QUESTION: What is the atomic
number?
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14. Chemistry-200
• ANSWER: This is an atomic particle
that may either be shared or given
away.
• QUESTION: What is a valent
electron?
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15. Chemistry-300
• ANSWER: This tells chemists what
elements make up a compound.
• QUESTION: What is a chemical
formula?
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16. Chemistry-400
• ANSWER: This is an equation that
shows what materials a chemical
reaction begin with (reactants) and
ends with (products).
• QUESTION: What is a chemical
equation?
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17. Chemistry-500
• ANSWER: A covalent bond in which
electrons are shared unequally.
• QUESTION: What is a polar bond?
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18. Ecology-100
• ANSWER: These are the surrounding
factors in an environment that all
organisms depend on.
• QUESTION: What are abiotic and
biotic factors?
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19. Ecology-200
• ANSWER: Groups of populations
that interact with each other in a
given area for this.
• QUESTION: What is a community?
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20. Ecology-300
• ANSWER: This system is made up of
a biotic community and the abiotic
factors that affect it.
• QUESTION: What is an ecosystem?
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21. Ecology-400
• ANSWER: This method is used by
ecologists to check on an
endangered species population in
Asia.
• QUESTION: What is the mark and
recapture method?
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22. Ecology-500
• ANSWER: Organism, population,
community, ecosystem, biosphere
contain the biotic and abiotic factors
that determine this.
• QUESTION: What are the Levels of
Biological Organization?
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23. Evolution-100
• ANSWER: This is any remain of life
from an earlier time.
• QUESTION: What is a fossil?
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24. Evolution-200
• ANSWER: Organisms with traits that
are best suited to their environments
are more likely to survive is due to
this theory.
• QUESTION: What is the theory of
evolution by Natural Selection?
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25. Evolution-300
• ANSWER: This is the appearance of
an inherited trait that makes an
individual different from other
members of the same species.
• QUESTION: What is a variation?
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26. Evolution-400
• ANSWER: This is a rock type formed
by mud, sand, or other fine particles
that settle out of a liquid.
• QUESTION: What is sedimentary
rock?
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27. Evolution-500
• ANSWER: Body parts that are
similar in origin and structure that
give evidence that two or more
species share common ancestors.
• QUESTION: What are homologous
structures?
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