1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. Why are quadrats used to study ecosystems? How is it used to estimate a population size? | 2. What is a behavioural adaptation? Structural adaptation? Give an example for each | 3. What are 3 human activities that can endanger species? | 4. What is the difference between a food web and a food chain? What does a food web show you? | 5. What is carbon? Why is it important? Draw the carbon cycle. | 6. What role does fossil fuel burning, forests burning, photosynthesis and animals respiring have in the carbon cycle? | 7. Describe the process of Photosynthesis | 8. How does the extinction of a species cause a less diverse (different) ecosystem? How does that affect a species ability to survive? | 9. What is the difference between extinction, extirpation, endangered and threatened? | 10. What is an ecological footprint? How is it calculated? | 11. What are all the components of the water cycle? Be sure to know the changes of state. | 12. What is symbiosis? Name each type and give one example | 13. Describe a need vs. a want/luxury | 14. What are natural resources? | 15. What are renewable resources? What are non-renewable resources? | 16. What is sustainability? | 17. What are the 3 R’s? | 18. What is a pyramid of numbers? Pyramid of biomass? | 19. What are producers, consumers, carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, scavengers and decomposers? | 20. What is bioaccumulation? | 21. What plant is known as the “beautiful killer” | 22. What are our 5 basic needs for survival? | 23. In the symbiotic relationship parasitism, what is the host? What is the parasite? | 24. What is a niche? | 25. What is primary succession? What is secondary succession? | 26. What are the 4 different types of ecosystem monitoring? | 27. What is a pioneer species? |
Why are quadrats used to study ecosystems? How is it used to estimate a population size?&choe=UTF-8
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What is a behavioural adaptation? Structural adaptation? Give an example for each&choe=UTF-8
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What are 3 human activities that can endanger species?&choe=UTF-8
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What is the difference between a food web and a food chain? What does a food web show you?&choe=UTF-8
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What is carbon? Why is it important? Draw the carbon cycle.&choe=UTF-8
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What role does fossil fuel burning, forests burning, photosynthesis and animals respiring have in the carbon cycle?&choe=UTF-8
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Describe the process of Photosynthesis&choe=UTF-8
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How does the extinction of a species cause a less diverse (different) ecosystem? How does that affect a species ability to survive?&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 27)
What is the difference between extinction, extirpation, endangered and threatened?&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 27)
What is an ecological footprint? How is it calculated?&choe=UTF-8
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What are all the components of the water cycle? Be sure to know the changes of state.&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 27)
What is symbiosis? Name each type and give one example&choe=UTF-8
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Describe a need vs. a want/luxury&choe=UTF-8
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What are natural resources?&choe=UTF-8
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What are renewable resources? What are non-renewable resources?&choe=UTF-8
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What is sustainability?&choe=UTF-8
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What are the 3 R’s?&choe=UTF-8
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What is a pyramid of numbers? Pyramid of biomass?&choe=UTF-8
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What are producers, consumers, carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, scavengers and decomposers?&choe=UTF-8
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What is bioaccumulation?&choe=UTF-8
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What plant is known as the “beautiful killer”&choe=UTF-8
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What are our 5 basic needs for survival?&choe=UTF-8
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In the symbiotic relationship parasitism, what is the host? What is the parasite?&choe=UTF-8
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What is a niche?&choe=UTF-8
Question 24 (of 27)
What is primary succession? What is secondary succession?&choe=UTF-8
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What are the 4 different types of ecosystem monitoring?&choe=UTF-8
Question 26 (of 27)
What is a pioneer species?&choe=UTF-8
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