Second Grade Science SOL Review
Jeopardy Questions and Answers
100 - These huge reptiles lived millions of years ago.
(dinosaurs)
200 - These animals are warm blooded and take care of
their young.
(mammals)
300 - Mammals all have this body covering.
(hair or fur)
400 - Insects have these three main body parts.
(head, thorax, abdomen)
500 - This is the proper name of the spider family.
(arachnids)
100 - Water is an example of this state of matter.
(liquid)
200 - Ice is an example of this state of matter.
(solid)
300 - When you heat a solid such as plastic, this will
happen.
(melting)
400 - When water freezes, does it expand or contract?
(expand)
500 - When water evaporates, it forms this gas.
(water vapor)
100 - Corn and peas are examples of these plant parts.
(seeds)
200 - Name two products made from plants.
(medicines, clothing,
oil, spices, lumber, rubber, paper, etc.)
300 - Plants provide this gas that all humans need to
survive.
(oxygen)
400 - This is an important job bees have to help
plants.
(pollination)
500 - The color or odor of this part of the plant
attracts bees.
(flower)
100 - Moving air is called this.
(wind)
200 - Rain, snow, hail, and sleet are examples of this.
(precipitation)
300 - When water changes into water vapor, this occurs.
(evaporation)
400 - When hot moist air rises and meets cooler air, it
forms clouds because of this.
(condensation)
500 - When there has not been enough rainfall, this
occurs.
(drought)
100 - Caterpillars become these later in their life
cycles.
(butterflies or moths)
200 - This is the stage of the butterfly after the egg.
(larva)
300 - When butterflies emerge from the chrysalis, they
must first do this to their wings.
(dry them)
400 - These butterflies travel from Canada to Central
America each year.
(monarchs)
500 - This word means a series of events that happen
over and over again, in the same order, like with frogs and butterflies.
(life cycle)
100 - This is the first stage of the frog's life.
(egg)
200 - The stage of frogs between the egg and the adult
frog.
(tadpole)
300 - Tadpoles live in this environment.
(shallow water)
400 - This is the difference between the feet of toads
and frogs.
(Frogs' feet are
webbed.)
500 - Frogs do this in the winter.
(hibernate)
200 - Large soft drink bottles are often measured in
these liquid units.
(liters)
400 - One hundred centimeters make one of these.
(meter)
600 - A paper clip weighs about the same as one of
these.
(gram)
800 - One thousand meters makes one of these.
(kilometer)
1000 - Water freezes at this temperature Celsius.
(zero degrees)
200 - Animals appear to sleep through the winter when
they do this.
(hibernate)
400 - When animals move to warmer areas for the winter,
they do this.
(migrate)
600 - Animals living in the polar regions are often
this color.
(white)
800 - Bears spend the winter in one of these.
(den)
1000 - Animals blend into their surroundings because of
this.
(camouflage)
200 - The area in which an animal lives is called this.
(habitat)
400 - When animal families no longer exist, we say they
have become this.
(extinct)
600 - When an animal's food supply is gone, this might
happen.
(They must move to find
food or starve.)
800 - One of the theories concerning the disappearance
of the dinosaurs.
(meteor, climate
changes, etc.)
1000 - Interdependence of living things means this.
(Living things depend
on other living things to live.)
200 - You use this instrument to measure the air
temperature.
(thermometer)
400 - A meteorologist does this.
(forecasts the weather)
600 - This instrument measure the amount of rainfall in
a specific area.
(rain gauge)
800 - A scientist uses instruments to forecast this
kind of storm which begins over the warm ocean waters and causes a great deal of damage
when it moves inland.
(hurricane)
1000 - An anemometer measures this.
(wind speed)
200 - Magnets attract objects made of this.
(iron, other metals)
400 - These are the names of the two poles of magnets.
(north, south)
600 - When two magnets attract, this means that these
two poles are pointing toward each other.
(opposites, or north
and south)
800 - The needle on a compass always points in this
direction.
(north)
1000 - When you hold the north poles of two magnets
near each other, they will do this to each other.
(repel)
200 - Weathering of the land can be caused by this.
(wind or water)
400 - Planting these might prevent soil from washing
away.
(plants)
600 - This is the source of heat and light for the
earth.
(the sun)
800 - The wearing away of the land surface is known as
this.
(erosion)
1000 - This is the part of the plant that surrounds and
protects the seeds while they are forming.
(fruit)
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