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IB Biology A4.2 Pub Quiz: Conservation of biodiversity

A4.2 as a pub quiz for your class: review rounds on this subtopic, mixed with pure-fun rounds so it feels like a night out and not another test. Opens at SL; switch to HL in the builder to add the higher level cards.

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Teacher pages are the quizmaster script and tally sheet. Student pages are the team answer sheet, handout and picture sheet. Both open ready to print, on A4 or US Letter.

What it covers

IB Biology at SL, with HL cards when you switch the level: A4.2 Conservation of biodiversity.

The running order

nine rounds and a handout of riddles. Review rounds are drawn from this topic each time you open the quiz, so two classes never get the same paper, and every review round can be redrawn in a click.

  1. Riddle me this review
    Course terms as riddles: "I have a head that loves water and two tails that hate it…" Teams write what it is.
  2. Close-up fun
    A tiny zoomed-in patch. What's the full picture?
  3. Fact or fiction fun
    Myths and true-but-weird facts. Teams write Fact or Fiction.
  4. Think it through review
    Scenarios, odd ones out, true or false and why, puzzles: questions to reason through. Give teams a little longer.
  5. Films in science-speak fun
    A film plot, described like a research abstract. Name the film.
  6. Who am I? Scientists fun
    Three clues, hardest first. 3 points after clue 1, 2 after clue 2, 1 after clue 3.
  7. Missing vowels: course terms review
    Your key terms with the vowels taken out.
  8. Funny animal noises fun
    YouTube clips of animals making ridiculous noises. Screen off, listen, guess, then watch the reveal.
  9. Closest wins fun
    Estimation questions. Nearest team wins the point. Doubles as the tiebreaker.

A taste of the questions

Think it through

Scenarios, odd ones out and true or false and why, from IB Biology.

  1. Cheetahs are so alike genetically that skin grafted between unrelated cheetahs is not rejected. Which level of biodiversity is low, and why does it matter?
  2. About 2 million species have been named, yet estimates of the total run to around 8 million or more. Why the gap?
  3. True or false: there are more species alive on Earth today than at any time in the past.
  4. Two experts study the same beetles: one says there are 12 species, the other 30. How can both be using the same evidence?
  5. I stood taller than a person, couldn't fly, and vanished within about 200 years of people reaching New Zealand. What am I, and what finished me off?
  6. The Caribbean monk seal was last seen in 1952. What drove it to extinction?
Answers
  1. Genetic diversity (with little variation the species is less able to survive disease or change)
  2. Many species are still undiscovered (especially small ones and those in the deep sea or rainforest canopy)
  3. True (fossil evidence suggests biodiversity is higher now than ever before)
  4. Lumpers and splitters (the same observations can be classified in different ways)
  5. The North Island giant moa (hunted to extinction by humans)
  6. Hunting by humans (killed for its oil, while its fish prey was overfished)

Riddle me this

Course terms as riddles. Teams write what it is.

  1. I'm the variety of life at every level: genes, species and ecosystems. What am I?
  2. I protect species away from home, in zoos, botanic gardens and seed banks. What am I?
  3. I protect species where they belong, in their natural habitats and nature reserves. What am I?
  4. I bring back missing big animals, wolves or bison, then step back and let nature run itself. What am I?
  5. I rank animals that are both one of a kind on the tree of life and close to the brink, like the aye-aye. What am I?
Answers
  1. Biodiversity
  2. Ex situ conservation
  3. In situ conservation
  4. Rewilding
  5. EDGE of Existence programme

Quickfire

Short recall from the same topics.

  1. Variety of life at all its levels
  2. Range of alleles within one species
  3. Variety of habitats in a region
Answers
  1. Biodiversity
  2. Genetic diversity
  3. Ecosystem diversity

How it runs

  1. Open it in the builder. The running order loads ready to go. Swap, add or drop rounds, or draw a round's questions again.
  2. Present it or print it. Present puts each round on the projector in 16:9 with quizmaster notes. Print gives the script, team answer sheets, a picture sheet and a tally sheet on A4 or US Letter, with no projector needed.
  3. Score it. Teams swap sheets, mark, and each plays one joker to double a round. The scores page reveals the leaderboard from last place up.

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