Coming to you from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, its the Dino Ridge Science Quiz Bowl!

The smartest high school minds from across the state competing against each other, in all things science!

Now, heres your host, Dave Aguilera.

(APPLAUSE) Hello!

It's the Dino Ridge Science Quiz Bowl.

I'm your host, Dave Aguilera.

Welcome.

The energy is buzzing here at the Colorado School of Mines.

Some of the brightest high school minds are right here, all in one place.

They are here to compete against each other in the Dino Ridge Science Quiz Bowl.

Now, today, we have 18 teams from schools all around the state.

Our returning champions from Grand Junction High School are here to defend their title.

But they are facing some stiff competition from teams all across Colorado who have traveled here to Golden today to match wits on all things science.

The teams have all registered and are receiving instructions on how the day will go today.

You can really feel the energy and the buzz in the room today.

And with me I have Amy Atwater from Dino Ridge.

Welcome, Amy.

Hi.

How are you doing today?

I'm doing great.

I'm so excited.

beautiful.

So let's give everybody kind of just a rundown of how the day will go today.

Yes.

So we have 18 teams from across the state who will be competing in classrooms across campus to get to our final round to be crowned the champions of the quiz ball.

And there are a lot of “ologies ” that the kids have to know about.

Give us a list of those.

So a lot of it is paleontology as associated with Dinosaur Ridge.

We've got geology, physics.

We've even got meteorology as well.

All sorts of science questions.

Let me ask you, why is it so important that we spotlight the kids we have here today?

What they're doing is incredible.

These are bright minds who are going to be our scientists in our future to bring all sorts of new advances to humankind.

So I'm very excited to be in their presence.

What's the biggest thing you're looking forward to seeing today?

Well, I'm excited for that final round and see who's going to be the winner.

Good deal.

(Upbeat Music) I have with me one of the “quizzers, ” or the “quizzies ” I guess you could call it.

This is Zach, everybody.

Zach, tell me what school you go to.

I go to Broomfield High School.

Broomfield High School.

And what grade?

I'm in 10th grade.

Right in the 10th grade right now.

So tell me what you're looking forward to today with the big Dino Ridge Quiz Bowl.

Well, I'm looking forward to answering questions and hopefully winning.

Tell me about your whole team.

How do you guys get along, what you guys did to prep for this team?

Well, I think we get along very well and we just practice by doing rounds during lunch and trying to get ready for this event.

Okay.

Zach from Broomfield.

Good luck, man.

I hope you pull it out.

All right.

All righty.

Luke, good to meet you.

What school are you from?

Luke?

I'm from Colorado.

Early colleges, Inverness.

Okay.

And these are your buddies over here, too, Yeah.

Come on in here.

All right, So tell me, how are you getting along with your teammates here today?

I just.

I hate their guts.

great.

They're all friends of mine.

Yeah, I'm really glad to be here with them.

Good.

Good.

So we had our coach sent us a whole bunch of practice sets, and we've all been rigorously studying them.

A lot of midnight study sessions Discord is our friend.

What are you looking forward to today?

I'm really looking forward to friendly competition.

I think it'll be a lot of fun and hopefully we'll make it to the finals.

Beautiful.

And how about you?

I'm looking forward to winning the competition.

- Looking forward to winning.

- All right.

Give me all for your names.

I'm Jackson.

I'm Josh.

- I'm Nick.

I'm Kevin.

- And you go to what school?

Fairview High School.

What did you guys have to do to prepare yourselves and get ready and that type of thing?

So we're not.

Our expertise isn't science.

So we had to really go and study a lot about paleontology and geology because some of us are history nerds like language arts nerds.

So to get ready for this, we just had to do a lot of studying, go to stuff, museums, just look online for a lot of questions, stuff like that.

Beautiful, beautiful.

And how are you getting along with your classmates today?

Not well at all.

I dont really enjoy their presence.

But honestly, I really enjoy them.

I really enjoy all of them.

I think they're all pretty fun.

All right, Beautiful.

Well, good luck, guys.

I really appreciate it.

(Upbeat Music) Okay, as these kids are getting ready.

Let's go over the rules of the competition today.

There are several rounds of competition.

Each round is a timed event.

There is a question caller, a judge, a timer in each classroom, and each team has a buzzer.

When they buzz in.

Anyone on that team can answer.

If their answer is correct, they get a point.

If it's not correct, the other teams have the option to buzz in and answer or pass.

At the end of all the general rounds of competition.

Quarterfinalists will be named.

Out of that, Tte winners will move on to the semifinals.

And finally, the top three teams will compete in the finals for the championship.

Right now, the teams are all heading over to their respective classrooms and getting ready for the beginning of the 2023 Dino Ridge Science Quiz Bowl.

Ready, set, go!

All right.

Good luck to all of you.

The category is fossil evidence, DNA, universal gravitation, physics terms, math, molecules.

Those who specialize in studying large sheets of ice moving across the Earth's surface are in which Glaciology Yes, that is correct.

Glaciology.

What is the name of the region between Mars and Jupiter?

5 seconds.

Asteroid belt.

Deformation is caused by rocks being squeezed and folded by what type of forces that share their name with the physical plates that are moving?

- Tectonic.

- Tectonic is correct.

In ecology, what term refers to the role an organism plays in its community?

- Niche.

- Niche is correct.

Calculating, The formula: G times Mass One times mass Two... Gravitational force?

That is correct.

Which molecule carries the genetic code from DNA to ribosomes... RNA?

More information... M RNA?

Yes, that is correct.

In 2022, a 2 million year old sample of which rare fossilized genetic material was found in Greenland?

Blood.

Blood is not correct.

- RNA?

- So close, but no.

DNA.

Simplify the expression: quantity 4 A squared, B cubed, end quantity, divided by quantity two A B end quantity.

2 A B squared.

That is correct.

- The thermosphere is the atmosphere in which what...?

- Aurora?

- More information.

- Aurora Borealis?

That is correct.

Basalt is a solidified form of what?

Lava.

Lava is correct.

Category: Fossilization.

Major movement.

Spacecraft.

Astronomer.

Carbon dating.

Overarching theory.

The category: Their era.

Category: Fossilization.

Per mineralization causes fossils when water rich... Minerals?

Minerals is the correct response.

Which large moon of Jupiter is the most volcanically active?

Europa.

Europa is not correct.

- Titan.

- Titan is incorrect.

- Io?

- Io is the correct repsonse.

Contrary to common thought, this scientific study is actually the study of the Earth's atmosphere.

Meteorology?

Meteorology is correct.

Dinosaur anatomy.

Which group of dinosaurs had the longest necks?

Sauropods?

Sauropods is the group that had the longest neck.

Small but dense, what is the second most dense planet?

- Venus?

- That is incorrect.

- Mars?

- That is incorrect.

- Mercury?

- Mercury.

Correct.

The category is genetic material.

Phenomenal.

Cause.

Fossil evidence.

Neptune.

What type of lens is thicker in the center and causes parallel light rays to converge?

- Convex Convex?

That is correct.

Nice.

What notable feature did Triceratops?

Horns?

That is correct.

What is the process by which a cell engulfs large particles?

Cytosis?

More information please.

Phagocytosis.

That is correct.

Which famous astronomer formulated the laws of the planetary... Galileo?

Galileo is incorrect.

- Isaac Newton.

- Newton is incorrect.

- Copernicus.

- Copernicus is incorrect.

This was Johannes Kepler, Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion.

What large marine arthropod has remained relatively..

Horseshoe crab?

That is correct.

Yes.

Carbon dating is used to determine what about the remnants...?

- Age?

Yes, that is correct.

Name the two scientists credited with the discovery of the double helix structure.

Watson and Crick.

Watson and Crick is correct.

How are the pressure and volume of a gas related at a constant temperature, according to Boyle's law?

As one goes up, the other goes down?

- I'll accept that.

- Yes.

Ancient forests contributed to the formation of what non-renewable energy?

- Petroleum?

- Incorrect.

Fossil fuels?

Incorrect.

Coal?

Coal is the specific response we are looking for.

Centripetal force.

Centripetal is correct.

Red giant.

Red giant is the correct response.

X to the seven, times Y to the fifth.

That is correct.

Hydrogen bonding.

- Hydrogen bonding is correct.

- Arctic?

The Arctic is correct.

Yes!

♪ - Yes!

- Yeah!

♪ (Upbeat Music) ♪ Wow, what a day we've had today.

The competition is going crazy.

The energy, the excitement of the very smart kids out here today.

Let's see how it's going today.

How is the competition going for you today?

We're going really good.

We've been having a lot of fun.

We've answered some questions and we're having a good time.

- You what was the hardest part of today so far?

I kind of got like I choked on one of them where I knew the answer, but I, like, forgot it in the moment.

So that was kind of frustrating.

Honestly.

- What school are you guys from?

- We're Horizon.

How about you?

How'd it go for you today?

I wish I was faster with the button because then they beat me and I was.

I was devastated... disheveled, do you understand me?

You guys came all the way up from Lake City, right?

Yeah.

How has it been so far?

The competition for you?

It's.

It's pretty good.

Pretty good.

What has been your toughest question so far?

Probably the one about Jupiter's moons.

There's one about a volcano on Jupiter's moons and I don't know very many Jupiter moons.

Good deal.

All right, Lake City, everybody.

All right.

One interview here, you guys.

What school are you guys from?

- Stargate.

- Stargate.

And what are your names?

Real quick.

Real quick.

Kristen, Jacob, Tamsin, Ryan.

We've got a big group over here.

This is kind of a combined group, blue and red here.

And you guys are from what school?

We're from Weld Central High School.

We're Central High School.

Okay.

Right.

And you since you're right in the middle, I'll go right to you.

So tell me, what what was your hardest question you had today?

It was definitely was the... How old is the ash layer at Dinosaur Ridge?

Which no one got in the entire room, but it turned out to be 104.6 million.

What was the easiest question for you?

I think it was probably the one that was about the Mohs Hardness Scale.

The question was: “What's the softest material on the hardness scale?

” - And it's talc.

- Wow.

And what's the hardest?

- Sapphire is actually.

- Ahhh sapphire.

All right.

Do you guys have a school cheer that you want to shout roll out to everybody.

Do you have a school cheer?

(Laughing) Can we just, like, say, like the...

Okay, (Laughing) Or we didn't get that... one more time.

Here we go.

Rebels are three.

One, two, three, rebels!

Okay, Moving into the semifinals, here are your six teams.

The Classical Academy, Colorado Early College - Inverness.

Grand Junction Team A.

Grand Junction Team B. Stargate Team A. Stargate Team B.

Now, they are all heading back into the classrooms to compete.

And at the end of this round, three finalists will emerge.

Let's go.

♪ Welcome to the semifinal round.

Question number one.

The category is best fossilizers.

Animals with shells or what other feature are more likely to fossilize than creatures...?

- Exoskeleton?

Skeleton.

Ill acccept.

Which constellation contains the North Star?

- Ursa Minor.

Ursa Minor is correct.

What is the term for the change in frequency of a wave due to the motion of the source?

Doppler shift?

Doppler shift or Doppler effect, either one is acceptable.

Fossil evidence of quill knobs on some non-avian dinosaurs has led to discussion of the presence of what...?

Feathers?

That is correct.

Newtons, first law of motion concerns what... - Inertia?

- That is correct.

Therapsid reptiles of Triassic period would give rise to which new type...?

- Dinosaurs?

- Dinosaurs is incorrect.

Mammals?

Mammals is the correct response.

- Mycology is the study of... - Fungi?

Yes, that is correct.

Quantity, X over Two, end quantity minus three, equals seven.

X equals 20?

X equals 20 is the correct response.

In genetics, what term describes the complete set... - Chromosomes?

- That is incorrect.

- Genome?

- Genome is correct, yes.

Which famous space telescope was...?

- Hubble?

- Hubble is correct.

...was launched by NASA in 1990.

Which is the branch of science concerned with the study of fossil animals and plants?

- Paleobiology?

- Paleobiology is not correct.

Paleontology?

Paleontology is the correct response here.

What type of electromagnetic radiation has the longest length?

Gamma.

Gamma is not correct.

- Infrared.

- Infrared is not correct.

- Microwave?

- Microwave is not correct.

Radio waves.

What is the name of the process by which cells break down glucose?

Glycolysis.

Glycolysis is not correct.

- Cellular respiration?

- That is correct.

Biostratigraphy is the study that determines what about layers of the earth?

Composition?

Composition is not correct... by studying the fossils within each strata?

- Time?

- Time is correct.

The change in pressure over an area is the pressure gradient.

The strength of the pressure gradient determines the speed of what?

- Wind?

- Wind is correct.

What process can be defined as the laying down of layers of sediment?

- Deposition?

- Deposition is correct.

Ethiopia.

- Ethiopia is correct.

- Mass?

- Mass is correct.

Catalyst.

That is correct.

- Sedimentary?

- Sedimentary is correct.

- Time?

- That is correct.

- Permian?

- That is correct.

- Birds?

- Birds is correct.

- Feathers?

- That is correct.

Deposition is correct.

That is correct.

- Wind is the correct response.

- That is correct.

Mass is correct.

That is correct.

♪ Welcome back to the Dino Rich Science Quiz Bowl.

We are here at the Colorado School of Mines ready for the final round.

Our three finalist teams are here.

They are all primed up.

We have the Starsgate Eagles.

Whoo!

The Grand Junction Tigers.

Yeah!

- And the Classical Academy Titans!

Whoo!

They've risen up through six rounds of competition to be right here on this stage.

And I'm here with Amy Atwater from Dinosaur Ridge.

Amy, how excited are you for tonight?

Beyond excited.

Yeah.

We've got a big, big night planned for you here.

And you've got the questions all ready to go, right?

- And they're really tough for this final round.

- Good deal.

So if you're ready, we're ready.

Students, are you ready?

Woo!

Woo!

All right, let's go.

Let's get the final started.

♪ All right, This is the final round.

Question one, studying the past.

What is the study of the Earth's past... Grand Junction.

Paleogeology.

That is incorrect.

...climate through ice cores and sediment layers.

Stargate.

Paleoclimatology?

That is correct.

International unit.

What is the unit of electric current in the International... - Grand Junction.

- Ampere?

- That is correct.

The Earth is not exactly round.

It has a slight... Grand Junction - Equator?

- That is incorrect.

Classical Academy.

- Elliptical?

- That is incorrect.

...bulge around the equator due to what movement?

Stargate.

- Rotation?

- That is correct.

Water cycle.

What do they call the study of the Earth's... Grand Junction.

Hydrology?

That is correct.

Extinction.

The rise of which form of life?

- Grand Junction.

- Mammals?

- Incorrect.

...likely contributed to the extinction of the megafauna?

- Stargate.

- Humans.

That is correct.

Oumuamua is a cigar shaped space object that went through our solar system in 2017 and has been designated as the first type object...?

- Grand Junction.

- Asteroid?

- That is incorrect.

Classical Academy.

Meteor?

That is incorrect.

...the “I ” type with the “I ” indicating that it is not from our solar system.

What does the “I ” stand for?

- Stargate.

- Interstellar?

- That is correct.

Studying the Earth.

What is the study of the Earth's... Grand Junction.

- Geology?

- That is incorrect.

Classical Academy - Seismology?

- That is incorrect.

Physical features such as mountains and valleys.

Stargate.

Geomorphology?

- That is correct.

Below ground.

- What is the term for a natural.

underground...?

- Grand Junction.

Aquifer?

Incorrect.

Stargate.

- Subterranean river?

- That is incorrect.

- Classical Academy.

- Cavern?

That is correct.

Current relationship: according to Ohm, the current flowing through a conductor has what relationship to the voltage... - Grand Junction.

Proportional?

- I need more.

- Directly proportional.

- Correct.

Info left behind, trace fossils are a record left by the activity of a living creature instead of body fossils.

Grand Junction.

- Coprolites.

- That is incorrect.

Classical Academy.

- Animal habitats?

- That is incorrect.

...one of the best examples are what fossilized record of vertebrate animal movements left in sediments?

- Stargate.

- Tracks?

I will accept that.

Yes.

Footprints?

Yes.

All right.

Congratulations, all of you guys.

We have gone through the first ten questions here.

We have the scores for the first round here.

So Classical Academy, you have one, Grand Junction has three, and Stargate, you have six points already.

How about that?

Now, Grand Junction.

You guys won last year and you beat Stargate.

Now, Stargates ahead.

Are you guys ready to come back roaring here?

And we've still got a lot of questions.

Classical Academy.

So are you set and ready and just pumped up to keep going.

You have a chance to stay in this whole thing before you made it through the first ten questions.

Now we're going to continue to roll on, so I'm going to send it back over to Amy.

So let's get to it.

Processes.

What is the term for the process by which organisms gradually... Grand Junction.

- Permineralization.

- That is incorrect... changes over time.

- Stargate.

- Evolution?

- That is correct.

Paleotara.

The ancient-winged.

Which insects that have a thin elongated thorax.

- Grand Junction.

- Dragonflies?

- That is correct.

State fossils.

Stegosaurus is the...

Classical Academy.

- Colorado.

- That is incorrect.

- Grand Junction.

- Dinosaur Ridge?

- That is incorrect.

...is the Colorado State fossil as named in 1982.

This dinosaur named Utah's state fossil in 1988 was also found at Dinosaur Ridge.

Stargate.

Triceratops.

- That is incorrect.

It's Allosaurus State Fossil of Utah, one of my favorites.

All right.

Anatomy and the human body... where does the majority?

- Grand Junction.

- The legs?

- Incorrect.

...of nutrient absorption occur?

- Classical academy.

- Small intestine?

That is correct.

The horseshoe crab is an example of what two... Grand Junction.

- Living fossil?

- That is correct.

Biological measurement.

What term refers to the total amount of living matter in an eco... Grand Junction.

Biomass?

- That is correct.

Land masses.

At the beginning of the Mesozoic era, the breaking... - Stargate - Gondwana and Laurasia?

That is incorrect.

- Grand Junction.

- Gondwanaland and Laurasia?

- That is incorrect.

- Classical Academy.

- Pangea?

That is correct.

Saturn Satellite.

Scientists have discovered hydrocarbon lakes on which... - Classical Academy.

- Titan.

Titan.

Yeah, you are the Titans, perfect!

Yes, that is correct.

All right.

Making rock.

Two things work to create metamorphic rock.

What are... Grand Junction.

- Heat and pressure?

- That is correct.

What was the habitat of plesiosaurs?

- Grand Junction.

- Oceans?

That is correct.

All right, all right.

After 20 questions already, man, things are just flying here.

All right, here we go.

With the scores after 20 here.

Classical Academy, youre at four, Stargate, you're at seven, and Grand Junction has pulled ahead, and you have eight.

You guys are seven and eight.

So you're kind of neck and neck.

Okay, Somebody has to pull ahead.

Classical Academy, you got four, but there are still plenty of questions for you to get through.

I think we have about ten more questions and you can just wrap this whole thing up if you get a few more.

All right.

And Amy is going to take it away again.

Amy.

All right.

As the final ten questions, this is what will determine the winner of the Quiz Bowl.

Let's get to it.

Common Characteristic.

First found in the Garden Park excavation site of Colorado.

The Camarasauras shared what major characteristic with Brachiosaurus... Grand Junction.

- Long necks?

- Correct.

What is the specific science that deals with dating the materials of the...?

Grand Junction.

- Radiology?

- That is incorrect.

- Stargate.

- Carbon dating?

- That is incorrect.

- Classical Academy.

- Paleochronology?

That is incorrect, but very close.

You're all very close.

The correct answer is geochronology.

Fossil firsts.

The serrated tooth of this famed carnivorous dinosaur... - Classical Academy.

- Tyrannosaurus Rex?

- That is correct.

All right.

This is a pen and paper question.

Find the roots of the quadratic equation: X squared minus seven x... Grand Junction.

- My answer is five, and two.

- That is incorrect.

Plus 12 equals... Stargate.

Three and four.

That is correct.

What is the process by which dead organic...?

Grand Junction.

- Decomposition?

- That is correct.

Structures.

The amnion was a part of structures... - Grand Junction.

- Eggs.

That is correct.

Ancient creatures.

What long time of reduction in the Earth's temperature saw the... - Grand Junction.

- Ice Age?

That is correct.

What is the velocity dependent force that opposes motion?

- Grand Junction.

- Friction?

That is incorrect.

Stargate.

- Air Resistance?

- That is incorrect.

Classical Academy.

- Drag.

- That is correct.

This paleontologist specializing in tracks and traces helped found Dinosaur Ridge in 1989.

- Stargate.

- Lakes.

That is incorrect.

Classical Academy.

- Marsh?

- That is incorrect.

Grand Junction.

- Cope?

- That is incorrect.

You were thinking a little bit to all this was Martin Lockley.

Reptile Reproduction.

Fossils have shown that the ichthyosaurs did not lay eggs, but instead had young through what...?

Grand Junction.

- Live birth?

That is correct.

I think we have a winner.

All right.

All right.

Well, there you have it.

We have the final numbers right here coming in at number three, with six points Classical Academy.

At number two, the Stargate Eagles, with eight points.

And coming in again for the second time this year with 13 points.

The Grand Junction Tigers.

Ooh, what an impressive performance.

Let me tell you what they did here.

Check this out.

They get a check.

Each member of the team gets $500 for scholarship from Dino Ridge in the Dino Ridge Science Quiz Bowl.

So how about that, guys?

The Grand Junction Tigers.

One more time, everybody.

Whoo!

Whoo hoo!

We had a great day today, and we will love to see you next year.

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