Transcript 2016-2017 EE MID TERM JEOPARDY 4x

EARTH/ENV Jeopardy
I AM THE
MARTIAN
CHOKING HAZARD:
ROLL TIDE
PANTHERS OFFENSE
( without a trophy)
S’UP
Hail to the president
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Final Jeopardy
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Which of the following is not a vector?
a. soil b. ticks
c. rock d. mosquitoes
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In order to predict and prevent the spread
of disease, scientists use all of the
following except
a. human trials
b. computer models
c. bioremediation d. cell cultures
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Animal research has led to all of the
following medical advancements except
a. brain transplants from owls
b. insulin from dogs
c. rabies vaccine from rats
d. eye transplants from rabbits
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Public health officials keep our food safe by doing
all of the following except
a. conducting food taste tests
b. provide sanitation grades for restaurants
c. promoting good hygiene
d. promoting use of antimicrobial chemicals
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Industrial microbiologists
a. provide quality control in preventing the
growth of bacteria and the spoilage of food
b. produce pharmaceuticals to treat and
prevent the spread of disease
c. are not concerned with public health
d. both a and b
$100 ROLL TIDE (ha ha)
A tick bites a deer that is carrying Lyme Disease. While
you are walking through the garden picking pansies and
daisies, that same tick attaches to your scalp and you
discover it attached TO YOU three days later. The
following week, you are feeling awful, you go to a
doctor, and he tells you that you have Lyme Disease.
Because the tick passed the disease from one species to
another, the tick is called a
a. carrier
b. pathogen
c. vector
d. host
$200 ROLL TIDE
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Exposure to the chemical benzene had been
proven to cause cancer in humans. Cancer is a
disease that causes one’s cells to mutate and
grow uncontrollably. Therefore, benzene is
a(n) _______________
a.
b.
disease.
pathogen.
c.
d.
enzyme.
mutagen.
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Mistletoe grows on trees and sucks the food
and water out of the upper branches of a tree.
The tree gets no benefit from the presence of
mistletoe and is actually harmed because it
robs the tree of food and water. Mistletoe is a
_____________
a.
disease.
c.
parasite.
b.
pathogen. d.
mutagen.
$400 ROLL TIDE
Bacteria was used in 1989 to clean up the
disastrous oil spill in Prince William Sound,
Alaska. The bacteria consumed the oil on the
beaches and made the toxic oil products completely
harmless. This was the first big use of bacteria for
a. genetic engineering
b. bacterial cloning
c. bioremediation
d. antibiotics
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H1N1 influenza, also known as the swine flu, was labeled a pandemic. It infected
humans beginning in the spring of 2009 and was declared over by the end of August
2010.How is this disease different than the normal seasonal flu we hear about every
year?
A. Pandemics affect people worldwide on more than one continent while seasonal
flu is a normal small-scale illness each year.
B. Pandemics affect small groups of individuals in one town, whereas seasonal flu
affects thousands of people nationwide each year.
C. Pandemics rarely kill any people, whereas seasonal flu has a high death rate,
killing up to 15% of those who catch it each year.
D. Pandemics are not highly contagious while the seasonal flu spreads easily and
needs to be contained carefully.
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Which of the following is NOT alive?
a. fungi
b. protists
c. bacteria
d. virus
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The bubonic plague was caused by a
a. fungi
b. protists
c. bacteria
d. virus
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Which of the following is not a type of
kinetic energy?
a. mechanical
b. chemical
c. electrical
d. magnetic
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Which of the following is not true of
electromagnetic energy?
a. it is part of the electromagnetic spectrum
b. it is energy stored in chemical bonds
c. it includes visible light
d. it is released into space from stars
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Which of these is not a form of chemical
energy?
a. food
b. fuel
c. heat
d. batteries
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Which of these is not a method of
obtaining energy from the Earth?
a. trapping
b. mining
c. harvesting
d. drilling
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Harvesting is part of generating electricity
using
a. geothermal
b. solar farms
c. biomass
d. wind farms
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Which of the following do we not harvest
for generating energy?
a. sugarcane
b. fish
c. wood
d. corn
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Which of the following is NOT an environmental
impact of harvesting and deforestation?
a. a decrease in carbon dioxide in our atmosphere
b. loss of habitat and loss of species
c. increased sediment in streams
d. erosion of topsoil layer making ground
unsuitable for farming
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Mining has huge environmental impacts
that include which of the following
a. increased oxygen levels
b. pollution of soil, groundwater, and
surface water
c. increase in animal populations
d. decrease in jobs in that area
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Which of these is not an environmental concern of
fracking?
a. Depletion of water supplies due to the large amounts
(millions of gallons) used in injecting the wells
b. Ground water contamination due to chemicals that are
injected
c. increased supply of oxygen to plants and animals
d. Concerns over causing seismic activity (miniearthquakes)
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Energy resources that form from the buried
remains of plants and animals
a. renewable resource
b. nonrenewable resource
c. geothermal energy
d. fossil fuels
e. electric generator
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Machine that converts chemical energy in fossil
fuels into electric energy
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
renewable resource
nonrenewable resource
geothermal energy
fossil fuels
electric generator
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Reprocessing a resource so that the materials
can be used to make new products
a. conservation
b. reducing
c. reusing
d. recycling
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WASHING A GLASS INSTEAD OF USING
PLASTIC THROW AWAY CUPS IS AN
EXAMPLE OF WHAT TYPE OF
CONSERVATION?
a.REUSE
b.RECYCLE
c.
d.
REBEL
REDUCE
I AM THE MARTIAN
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Answer
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PRESIDENT
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Final Jeopardy
RIDING A BIKE TO WORK INSTEAD OF
DRIVING A CAR IS AN EXAMPLE OF
a.
b.
RECYCLING
REDUCING
c.
d.
REUSING
ALL OF THE
ABOVE
Final Jeopardy Answer