Competition Rules: Deep Sea, Tall Mountain

DEEP SEA, TALL MOUNTAIN

Description:

Students will answer questions involving content knowledge and process skills in the area

of environmental science in test format.

Number of Participation: 2

The Competition:

1) Topics of biology in 4th/5th grade textbooks will be covered in addition to the following

advanced topics:

 Energy Flow (Pyramid)

 Symbiotic Relationships

 Cycles (Water, Carbon, Nitrogen)

 Population growth (Exponential/Logistic growth, Carrying Capacity, know how to

read a population graph)

 Food chains/ Food webs

 Community interactions in general

Scoring:

1) Questions will be assigned point values dependent on question difficulty. Students will

be ranked from highest to lowest score. Ties will be broken with predetermined tiebreaker

questions.