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IB Biology D4.3 Pub Quiz: Climate change

D4.3 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: D4.3 Climate change.

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. Why does melting Arctic sea ice speed up global warming?
  2. I've been frozen for thousands of years, packed with dead plants. Thaw me and I breathe out CO₂ and methane. What am I, and what loop do I start?
  3. True or false: ice cores showing CO₂ and temperature rising and falling together prove on their own that CO₂ causes warming.
  4. Why do corals struggle to build their skeletons as the ocean absorbs more CO₂?
  5. Why do corals turn white during a marine heatwave?
  6. Why does early break-up of Antarctic landfast ice threaten emperor penguins?
Answers
  1. Positive feedback (dark sea absorbs more sunlight than reflective ice, so more ice melts)
  2. Permafrost (a positive feedback: more warming, more thaw)
  3. False (correlation is not causation; other evidence confirms the causal link)
  4. Ocean acidification (it suppresses calcification of calcium carbonate)
  5. Bleaching (heat stress makes them expel their algae, and they may starve without them)
  6. Chicks drown (they lose their breeding platform before growing waterproof feathers)

Riddle me this

Course terms as riddles. Teams write what it is.

  1. Fresh snow has lots of me and dark ocean hardly any: I'm how much sunlight a surface bounces back. What am I?
  2. The sea soaks up CO₂, my pH drops, and corals struggle to build. What am I?
  3. Heat makes a reef-builder spit out its algae, and I leave it white as bone. What am I?
  4. I'm ground that has stayed below 0 °C for thousands of years; thaw me and I breathe out methane. What am I?
  5. I'm what growing forests and waterlogged bogs do with CO₂: lock it away for the long term. What am I?
Answers
  1. Albedo
  2. Ocean acidification
  3. Coral bleaching
  4. Permafrost
  5. Carbon sequestration

Quickfire

Short recall from the same topics.

  1. Extra warming from human emissions
  2. Gas from cattle and flooded rice fields
  3. Coal, oil or gas burned for energy
Answers
  1. Enhanced greenhouse effect
  2. Methane
  3. Fossil fuel

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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