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NOAA Jeopardy Grades 9-12
| Jeopardy Point Value | Answer | Question |
|---|---|---|
100 |
Amount of salt in water |
What is Salinity? |
200 |
Pacific Northwest anadromous fish |
What is a Salmon? |
300 |
Organisms living together, both benefiting from the association |
What is Symbiosis? |
400 |
Used by instruments to measure depth |
What are sound waves? |
500 |
Book that began environmental movement |
What is ‘Silent Spring’? |
| Jeopardy Point Value | Answer | Question |
|---|---|---|
100 |
Main character in ‘Jaws’ |
What is a Great White Shark? |
200 |
Small oceanic drifting plants |
What are phytoplankton? |
300 |
Largest animal that has ever lived |
What is the Blue Whale? |
400 |
Bivalve mollusk with many ‘eyes’ |
What is a scallop? |
500 |
‘Recently’ discovered fish previously thought to be extinct |
What is a Coelacanth? |
| Jeopardy Point Value | Answer | Question |
|---|---|---|
100 |
Aquatic name for where the rivers meet the sea |
What is an Estuary? |
200 |
Living place of organism, characterized by its physical and biological properties |
What is a habitat? |
300 |
Rock outcroppings where seawater collects |
What is a tide pool? |
400 |
Calcium carbonate skeleton & zooanthallae |
What is a coral reef? |
500 |
Deepest ocean zone |
What is the hadal or hadalpelagic zone? |
| Jeopardy Point Value | Answer | Question |
|---|---|---|
100 |
Holds water in the sky |
What are clouds? |
200 |
Resulting in melting of polar ice caps |
What is global warming? |
300 |
Maximum sustained wind speed 74 mph or higher |
What is a hurricane? |
400 |
Year that had the greatest number of hurricanes |
What is 2004? |
500 |
Results of decrease in tropical pacific wind strength |
What is El Niño? |
| Jeopardy Point Value | Answer | Question |
|---|---|---|
100 |
NOAA |
What is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration? |
200 |
NWS |
What is the National Weather Service? |
300 |
NMFS |
What is the National Marine Fisheries Service? |
400 |
NOS |
What is the National Ocean Service? |
500 |
OAR |
What is the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research? |
| Double Jeopardy Point Value
|
||
200 |
NESDIS |
What is the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service? |
400 |
GLIMO |
What is Global Leadership of Integrated Management of the Ocean? |
600 |
PPBES |
What is Program, Planning, Budget, and Execution System? |
800 |
PART |
What is Performance Assessment Rating Tool? |
1000 |
CCEHBR |
What is the Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research? |
| Jeopardy Point Value | Answer | Question |
|---|---|---|
200 |
Warm current off the eastern US coast |
What is the Gulf Stream? |
400 |
Apparent force that causes freely moving objects to deflect to the right in the Northern hemisphere |
What is the Coriolis Force? |
600 |
Narrow surface current moving from shore at an abnormally rapid speed |
What is a rip current? |
800 |
Tide type that always has 2 equal highs and 2 equal lows per day |
What is a semi-diurnal tide? |
1000 |
Tide seen when the moon is on the opposite side of the earth from the sun |
What is Spring Tide? |
| Jeopardy Point Value | Answer | Question |
|---|---|---|
200 |
Observation technology found above 160 miles |
What are satellites? |
400 |
Finds you when you are lost |
What is SARSAT? |
600 |
The first satellites were used for this |
What is communication? |
800 |
Two main types of environmental satellites |
What are polar orbiting and geostationary? |
1000 |
Measurement of ocean bottom topography |
What is bathymetry? |
| Jeopardy Point Value | Answer | Question |
|---|---|---|
200 |
NOAA Associate Administrator |
Who is VAMR Conrad Lautenbacher? |
400 |
Non-native species that cause harm |
What is an invasive species? |
600 |
Plastic 6 pack rings; monofilament line; plastic grocery bags |
What is marine debris? |
800 |
Swallowed Captain Ahab |
Who is Moby Dick? |
1000 |
Deepest spot in the world’s oceans |
What is the Marianas Trench? |
| Jeopardy Point Value | Answer | Question |
|---|---|---|
100 |
Congress passed this law in 1973 to protect threatened and endangered species |
What is the Endangered Species Act? |
200 |
Seals, sea lions, and walruses are part of this order of marine mammals? |
What are pinnipeds? |
300 |
Whales, dolphins, and porpoises are part of this order of marine mammals? |
What are Cetaceans? |
400 |
This fish turns red at spawning time |
What is a sockeye salmon? |
500 |
Most endangered marine species |
What is the Right Whale? |
| Double Jeopardy Point Value
|
||
200 |
Congress passed this law in 1973 for the protection of marine mammals |
What is the Marine Mammal Protection Act? |
400 |
Only marine invertebrate listed under the Endangered Species Act |
What is the white abalone? |
600 |
Two characteristics of whales used by scientists for identification |
What are (pick 2) fins, flukes, callosities, or head shape? |
800 |
Term used to describe being born in fresh water, migrating to the ocean to grow as adults, and then returning to fresh water to spawn |
What is anadromous? |
1000 |
Only type of seal that lives in the tropics |
What is the Hawaiian Monk Seal? |
| Jeopardy Point Value | Answer | Question |
|---|---|---|
100 |
The largest species of marine turtle |
What is the leatherback turtle? |
200 |
Device designed to keep turtles out of fishing nets |
What is a Turtle Excluder Device? |
300 |
Sea turtle shell used to make ‘tortoise shell’ items |
What is the Hawksbill turtle? |
400 |
Hawksbill, Green, Leatherback, Olive Ridley, Kemp’s Ridley, and Loggerhead |
What are the sea turtles listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act? |
500 |
Regulates sea turtles when they are on land |
What is the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service? |
| Jeopardy Point Value | Answer | Question |
|---|---|---|
100 |
Father tries to find his son |
What is ‘Finding Nemo’? |
200 |
Fish lies and vegetarian diets |
What is ‘Shark Tale’? |
300 |
New England community terrorized by shark |
What is ‘Jaws’? |
400 |
Boy spray paints tank, Killer whale escapes |
What is ‘Free Willy’? |
500 |
Boy and dolphin become friends |
What is ‘Flipper’? |
| Jeopardy Point Value | Answer | Question |
|---|---|---|
100 |
Ocean near Antarctica |
What is the Southern Ocean? |
200 |
Lies south of Louisiana and north of Central America |
What is the Gulf of Mexico? |
300 |
Rock of Gibraltar stands at the mouth |
What is the Mediterranean Sea? |
400 |
Found between Alaska and Russia |
What is the Bering Sea? |
500 |
Colorful sea found between Saudi Arabia and Sudan |
What is the Red Sea? |