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IB Biology B4.1 Pub Quiz: Adaptation to environment

B4.1 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: B4.1 Adaptation to environment.

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. Marram grass on sand dunes rolls its leaves inwards, with the stomata on the inside. Why?
  2. Mangrove trees send up roots that stick out of the mud like snorkels. Why?
  3. Some mangroves have salt crystals on their leaves. Where does the salt come from?
  4. True or false: a crop plant in wet but very salty soil has plenty of water available to it.
  5. Cactus spines, marram grass's rolled leaves, mangrove snorkel roots, saguaro stomata open only at night: which is the odd one out, and why?
  6. Bluebells flower on woodland floors in early spring, before the trees above come into leaf. Which abiotic factor are they making use of?
Answers
  1. It traps humid air around the stomata (cutting water loss in the dry, windy dunes)
  2. The waterlogged mud has almost no oxygen (these roots take in air for the rest of the root system)
  3. Salt glands in the leaves excrete the excess salt taken up from seawater
  4. False (the salty soil water draws water out of the roots by osmosis, so it wilts)
  5. The mangrove roots (they get oxygen in waterlogged mud; the others all save water)
  6. Light (they photosynthesise before the canopy shades the floor)

Riddle me this

Course terms as riddles. Teams write what it is.

  1. I'm the place where an organism lives: its address, not its job. What am I?
  2. I poke up out of the mud like a snorkel, so that a mangrove's buried parts can get air. What am I?
  3. I'm the stretch between too little and too much, where a species can survive. What am I?
  4. I'm a tiny alga living inside a coral and paying my rent in sugar. Let the water get too hot and I'm evicted. What am I?
  5. I'm what happens when a reef turns ghostly white after its animals expel their algae in hot water. What am I?
Answers
  1. Habitat
  2. Pneumatophore
  3. Range of tolerance
  4. Zooxanthellae
  5. Coral bleaching

Quickfire

Short recall from the same topics.

  1. Place where an organism or species lives
  2. Non-living influence such as temperature
  3. Inherited trait suiting life in a habitat
Answers
  1. Habitat
  2. Abiotic factor
  3. Adaptation

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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