Coming to you from the Colorado School of Mines and Golden.

It's the Dino Ridge Science Quiz The smartest high school minds from across the state competing against each other in all things Now, here's your host, Dave Agui It's the Dino Ridge Science Quiz I'm your host, Dave Aguilera.

We Thank you for joining us here at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.

You're about to watch some of Co smartest high school minds compete against each other in al science.

I'm very happy to be back here again as your host.

And to watch these bright high school teams compete against eac Right now, let's bring in Amy At from Dinosaur Ridge.

Amy, good to see you.

Good to see you again.

Amy is the director of paleontol at the Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison, and Amy's joining m later to call the final round.

So, Amy, so good to see you agai this year.

Can you give me, like, just a quick rundown of how the competition will go t Yes, absolutely.

We're incredibly excited to have this year from all across the st competing in classrooms here on campus in this prelimina From there, we're going to have move on to the quarterfinals, and then we will have six advanc there as our semifinalists befor the final three teams will be wi for that championship title at t So exciting today.

Hard to believe.

We've got 24 teams and and these high schools all across the stat Yeah.

That's right.

It's really exciting that we hav from across the Denver metro are but also from places all across the state of Colorado, including that traveled overnight to be he from all corners of Colorado.

So it's a really big day for these students and for Dinos Awesome.

Thank you.

Amy, I'll let you get back to work.

So you in the final round.

Well, the energy is building her at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.

They just went through kind of a preliminary testing and they're ready to go.

I want to get a few words with some of the teams that are Want to bring in Weld Central.

Come on in here.

Guys, squeeze on in here.

Weld c They've been, fired up for a whi for this.

Team captain, right here in the middle, your n Mav.

Mav.

Tell me a little bit, about, how guys are feeling today and how y are going to attack the quiz tod We definitely got a buzzing atmo I think we had the most applause for ourselves.

I think for the best.

Definitely I hear that, you guys, you can't talk to each other, but you can give hand signals and something like that.

Give me a hand signal or what do you guys do when you So if we absolutely know the question, we'll do this.

And that means we absolutely know it for sure.

Sometimes we'll even throw up a for how confident we are one thr That's just some basic stuff.

Other, other things we can coord even before the match.

Right before special hand signals can mean special signals because obviously we're not allowed to talk during You know, stuff like that.

Just Whatever, really.

I got another team on this side.

Come on in.

Where are you guys from?

Hanover.

You guys got up early this morni Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

What have you guys done to prepare for this big quiz tod We've been we've been studying a We've been getting ready so far.

Good luck guys.

Thanks for talking to us.

And then we have another team ov These guys came a long way.

You guys are from Durango, right How did you guys prepare for thi So we practice, at our school about three times a week, and, we've been doing lots of practice questions.

We mostly practice oral, so I think we're pretty prepared Pretty?

Pretty well prepared.

When did you guys start, like, s things and getting everything to Has this been a long process for or just real quick?

It was kind of fast.

We didn't really know we were doing this competition until two weeks ago, but we do consistently practice just for, like, state and other stuff at our school.

Well, good luck you guys.

I hope you do well today.

Thanks for coming up all the way from Durango, Colorado here at the Colorado School of Mines.

Oh.

Okay.

It looks like they're ready.

The teams are on their way to the first round of competitio The wait is over for the 2024 Dino Ridge Science Quiz Bowl.

Here we go.

There is no further ado.

We will jump on in round number Question number one.

What is the pH of a chemically n soap?

Seven.

Correct.

What term describes the curved path of an object, such as a planet, as it moves around another objec such as a star, due to gravitational forces.

Team B. Orbit?

Yes.

What type of fossil contains a record of biological activity by life forms, but not the prese remains of the Earth.

Trace?

Trace is correct.

And pterosaur.

This prefix...

Winged?

Winged, yes.

What are the names of three different metamorphic rocks that exhibit foliation?

Sandstone... umm... diamond and... (laughs) foltenstol.

I'm sorry.

That's incorrect.

Schist, gneiss, diamond.

Sorry.

No, you guys are on the right track.

It's gneiss, schist, phyllite an By what amount is the atomic num of the resulting nucleus decreas Two.

Two is the correct response.

What group of organisms are rela to the squid, octopus and chambered nautilus that occupy today's oce Cephalopod.

Correct.

In an earthquake what is the name of the point un Epicenter.

Epicenter is incorrect.

Hypocenter.

The hypocenter is correct.

Using either their English or La name all three bones of the midd Hammer, anvil and stirrup.

Yes.

Describing your body's resistanc to changes... Inertia?

Yes.

What is the name of the large depression formed by the Crater?

Sorry.

Crater?

Yes.

(Laughs) Lying beneath the clear cornea, what is the... Retina?

That is incorrect.

Iris?

Iris is what we're looking for.

The vast mineral wealth of Colorado's roc which lured a stampede of miners in the mid 1800s, owes its very present to what destruc The Mid-Tertiary ignimbrite flar Okay.

And by that, you're referring to more general The eruption of volcanoes in the San Juan Mountains?

Yes.

Triassic, Jurassic, Crustacean?

No.

Devonian, Ordovician and Siliuri No.

Triassic.

Jurassic.

Cretaceous?

Jurassic.

Jurassic is correct.

Davis.

Copper.

Yes.

Archeology.

Yes.

Central.

Yes.

Orestheus?

Yes.

That is correct.

Peabody.

Correct.

Laramide orogeny.

Geologic time scale theory.

Liithosphere?

Geiger counter?

Saber tooth.

Vaporization.

Cephalopods?

Yes.

Era?

Eras is correct.

Welcome back, everybody, to the 2024 Dino Ridg Quiz Bowl, where some of the sma high schoolers across the state have gathered here in Golden to match wits against each other Here we are, here in the hallway so Colorado School of Mines and And a lot of these folks had just went through another round of quizzing and that type of thing.

So we want to talk to them and s just how it's going.

Let me introduce you to these gu first.

What is your team and where are We are from Lake City, Colorado, on the western slope, Lake City.

And that's way down in southern right?

Yes.

Yeah.

How do you guys think you did to We're a really small school.

A third of our high schoolers are competing, so I think we did pretty good with the selection of people we Yeah.

Let me jump over to this s really quickly.

And I just want to ask you, if you had a hardest question and what you think the, the most part of today has been so far?

I don't know that I could think like other our hardest question off the top of But like, especially the longer and especially before lunch, lik you know, you get hungry and then all of a sudden you're focusing on food instead of dinosaurs.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know how that goes When I'm doing the weather, I al think, what am I going to eat fo I don't know, let me talk to the in the green shirt.

Where are you guys from?

We are from Colorado.

Early colleges, Douglas County which is out in the tech center.

How did you guys, do so far toda What do you think?

We're feeling pretty good about In the past few years, we've got both times, both by one point.

And so this year we're looking t to try and place in the top thre And get to the finals.

How did you guys train, for the, quiz this year?

We have practice weekly on Tuesd and Wednesdays after school.

Tell me about your day.

What was the most difficult part of your day so far today?

Well, some teams have really good buzz and that's just hard to beat when they're, able to answer the before, you know, what makes a good buzzer.

How do you become a good buzzer?

You gotta have good reflexes.

Ri It really just comes down to practice.

Learning went about knowing your knowing when you can buzz that p can get it.

How did you guys practice buzzin What did you do out there in Grand Junction?

Well, we we just get together, you know, a couple times a week and just run questions.

It's all about you know, just re repetition, repetition.

Well these guys have been throug a lot already.

This one.

Are they going to find out, as w through the afternoon whether or they're going to be the champion or they're going to be in the to Right?

There we go.

Moving into the semifinals, here are your six teams.

The Classical Academy Team A, Stargate High School Team A, Colorado Early College Team A, Durango High Sch Grand Junction High School Team, A, the Classical Academy Team B.

And.

Here we go.

What type of symbiotic.

Symbiotic relationship involving...

Team A, five seconds.

Parasitism.

Parasitism is incorrect.

Mutualism.

Mutualism is incorrect.

Commensalism.

That's the only one left.

So that's a good guess.

Commensalism.

That's correct.

Taro is a Greek prefix that shows up in the way names.

Pterodactyl.

Winged?

That is correct.

In what country would you find the Midlane to bridge a bridge that connects the North American to the Eurasian Plate?

Iceland?

Iceland is the correct response.

in an electrochemical cell what are the names for both the where oxidation occurs... Anode and diode?

Anode and diode is incorrect.

Anode and cathode?

Anode and cathode is the correct Sinosauropteryx was the first di fossil found with evidence of what specific.. Feathers?

Yes.

What is the term for tall, thin spires of earth formed by erosio Hoodoo.

Hoodoo is correct.

Diffraction.

Diffraction is the correct respo Dinosaur Ridge is made up of a long, narrow ridge with a narrow crest and steep sh Hogg back is correct.

Helical?

That is correct.

Caldera?

Caldera is correct.

Ice age?

Ice ages is what we're looking a The farad is the unit used to me what ability?

Capacitance.

Capacitance is the correct respo What form of carbon is used in p Graphite?

Graphite is correct.

Water?

Yes.

Gear?

Gear is correct.

That's correct.

Tetnis?

Tetnis is the correct response h What kind of injury to the head?

Concussion?

What two geological periods cover the first 98 million years Paleocene and Cambrian?

That is incorrect.

Cambrian in Orodovian?

Incorrect.

Cambrian and Ordovician?

Ordovician is the correct respon What fundamental particle?

Neutron.

Neutron is incorrect.

Electron?

Electron is incorrect.

Discovered at CERN in 2012 and c the God particle in the popular is responsible for giving other particles... Higgs Boson?

The Higgs Boson is the correct r That is incorrect.

Sandstone?

That is incorrect.

Capacitance?

Capacitance is correct.

Flatirons?

Yes.

What site in southeastern...

Team A... Morrison Formation?

That is incorrect.

Water?

Ankylosaurus?

Ankylosaurus is correct.

Nice.

What branch of geology is concer with the order?

Stratigraphy?

Yes.

Random access memory?

Yes.

Sauropods?

Sauropods is correct.

Lithosphere?

Moa?

Moa is Correct.

Stratigraphy.

That is correct.

Buoyancy?

Buoyancy is correct.

Grand junction is the winner.

Welcome back to the Dino Ridge Science Quiz Bowl here at the Colorado School in Golden, Colorado.

We have made it to the much anti final round of competition.

All of the teams did such a grea today, some traveling hundreds of miles to be here.

Thanks to all of you who made the trip today to compe And now here are your three fina They are Grand Junction Team A. Whoo!

The Classical Academy., Team B!

Whoo!

Oh, yeah.

Stargate School Team A!

Whoo!

And here she is, Amy Atwater from Dino Ridge.

Amy, we'll be reading our final of the night here.

Amy, are you ready?

I'm so ready.

Right on, right on.

Students, are you ready?

Yeah!

Let's go do this now.

Let's go r Question one.

Colorado's colossal giant.

What dinosaur first discovered, Grand Junction.

Apatosaurus.

That is correct.

Question two.

Losing sparks.

When iron rusts or a match ignit the substances.

Stargate.

Oxidize?

I will take that.

Yes.

Oxidation.

Question three.

Shake, rattle and roll.

What often disastrous geological Grand Junction Earthquakes?

That is correct.

Question four.

Rock arches.

When looking at folded rock stra what label is used to describe a convex upward, Grand Junction Anticline?

That is correct.

Question five.

Vascular vessels.

What is the name of the tissue that transports water?

Grand Junction.

Xylem.

That is correct.

Rising from the fire.

The two types of igneous rock.

Grand Junction.

Shock.

That is incorrect.

Of igneous rock or volcanic rock one of which forms above ground.

And the other?

Stargate.

Intrusive and extrusive?

Yes, that is correct.

Question seven.

Dinosaur Ridge geologic history.

Crocodile Creek is an example of Grand Junction.

Arroyo.

That is incorrect.

is an example of what type of geomorphology feature charact by a narrow depression that is, experiences, Stargate.

Canyon?

That is incorrect.

...daily influxes and ebbs of se Classical Academy.

Estuary?

That is incorrect.

The correct answer is tidal chan the narrow depression.

Otherwise, estuary would have been accepted.

Question eight.

Material mixtures, which material often used in construction is made by... Grand Junction.

Concrete.

That is correct.

Question nine.

Global level exti What chemical element?

Grand Junction.

Sulfur?

Incorrect.

Stargate.

Iridium?

That is correct.

Question ten.

Morning, sunshine.

What kind of heat transfer are you feeling?

Grand Junction.

Radiation.

That is correct.

Question 11.

Fossil forming.

What is the name of the fossil making process?

Grand Junction.

Mold.

Incorrect.

Stargate.

Compaction?

That is incorrect.

Where groundwater seeps into and minerals and porous materials such as bone or wood, eventually replacing al Classical Academy.

Petrification?

That is correct.

Question 12.

Human beings.

What paired human organs balance our... Grand Junction.

Kidneys.

That is correct.

Question 13.

Dinosaur Ridge geologic history.

When examining the geologic cross-section of Dinosaur Ridge.

What type of unconformity?

Grand Junction.

Anticline?

That is incorrect.

Stargate.

Concretion?

That is incorrect.

...exists between rocks of the C Dakota Group and rocks of the Jurassic Morris Formation.

Classical Academy.

Erratic?

That is incorrect.

The answer I was looking for was disc conformity.

Question 14.

Transform.

Faults.

The San Andre Grand Junction.

Pacific plate.

That is incorrect.

Is a large transform.

Stargate.

Strike slip.

That is incorrect.

Fault boundary that cuts through California and northern What other country in the Pacifi ring of fire has a transform fault boundary known as the Alpi Classical Academy.

New Zealand?

That's correct.

Question 15 Jurassic predator.

The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, located in Utah, is famous for an abundance of fo Stargate.

Therasaur?

That is incorrect.

From which large?

Therapod predator?

Grand Junction.

Allosaurus?

That's correct.

I was there last weekend.

It's cool.

Question 16.

Divide and conquer.

What laboratory technique is used to separate, Stargate.

Distillation?

That is incorrect.

Grand Junction.

Centrifuge?

That is incorrect.

Separate mixtures using paper, l media based...

Classical Academy Distillation.

That is incorrect.

I was looking for chromatography Pleistocene pets.

From the Greek for large and animals, what word describes Stargate?

Megafauna?

That is correct.

Question 18.

Traveling companions.

Name for Zeus's mythical cup.

Grand Junction.

Hermes?

That is incorrect.

Classical Academy.

Ganymede.

That is correct.

Question 19.

I lava this term.

What word that is borrowed from the Hawaiian language... Grand Junction.

Ahh-Ahh?

That is incorrect.

Stargate.

Pahoehoe?

That is correct.

Good job.

Right.

Question 20.

Peeling away the layers.

Arrange the following five layers of Earth's structure from nearest to the su to farthest away.

And they are.

Grand Junction.

Crust.

Mantle.

Outer core.

Inner core.

That is incorrect.

The five that you have to use ar Crust.

Stargate.

Crust.

Outer mantle.

Lower mantl Outer core.

Inner core?

That is correct.

And that was question 20.

After 20 questions.

We've got the scores here for yo And before I give the scores, I to really, I we have a crowd her Can we give these guys a big rou of applause for doing this today You guys are awesome.

I bought, I've already learned so much just from the, q they've answered here so far.

So here we go.

Grand Junction High School with eight points.

Good job guys.

Classical academy here.

You guys have three points.

So you guys got one.

So you guys are back in the back in the hunt here, ri Well, it's heating up a bit, but I think our team is getting used to the, heating environment Good deal, good deal.

It's a tough environment with these guys in it.

Yeah.

Good.

All right, well, you guys are do And let me jump over here to, St And you guys have six points.

How about that?

We have eight, three and six.

What do you guys think about the competition so far?

Is it pretty tough out here?

Pretty tough.

Has been a really And we're only looking to make i Yeah.

All right.

Good deal.

Well all of these guys are doing And according to the rules, if a team does want to substitut somebody, and switch out, partic they can do that.

And I believe Grand Junction is going to do that.

Right now before we get going.

So, Amy, you got the question is for the next round going over All right, let's do this.

All right.

And we're down to the last ten q of the final round.

Let's go.

Question 21.

Dinosaur Ridge, geologic history Exposed below the Dakota group.. Grand Junction.

Superposition?

That is incorrect.

Classical Academy.

Morrison formation?

That is correct.

And your shirts match the formation.

I approve.

Question 22.

The sound of silence.

Grand Junc Silence.

That is incorrect.

What unit used to measure the.

Stargate.

Decibel?

That is correct.

Question 23 liquid losses.

The area where a glacier loses Grand Junction.

Zone of wasting.

Yes, I will get that.

Wastage.

Zone of wasting.

Correct.

Or Ablation.

I would have also accepted ablat Good job.

Question 24.

Famous fossils.

Serving as a use of correlating rocks of a simila Grand Junction.

Index fossil?

Index Fossil is correct.

Question 25.

I'll just leave this here.

Like many examples around the Gr Stargate.

Erratic.

That is incorrect.

The accumulation of rocks and Grand Junction.

Glacier.

That is incorrect.

Sediment carried by and deposite by a glacier is called a... What?

Classical Academy Deposit?

That is incorrect.

I was looking for a moraine.

Erratic is a good guess.

But this is multiple rocks.

An accumulation of such.

Therefore the difference.

Question 26 from fins to feet.

Discovered in 2004, Tiktaalik is a key transitional that shows the evolutionary shif from fish.

Stargate.

Quadrupeds?

That is incorrect.

Grand Junction.

Reptiles?

That is incorrect.

Classical Academy.

Amphibians?

That is incorrect.

You all around there.

The evolutionary shift from fish to what, group of vertebrates whose name means four feet.

Tetrapods.

Question 27.

Color coordination.

What color does phenolphthalein Grand Junction.

Pink.

That is correct.

Question 28.

Time flies.

Name a 20th century paleontologi Grand Junction.

Lockley?

Good guess.

No, that is incorrec Stargate.

Anning?

Oh, another good guess.

19th century.

That is incorrect.

Evolutionary biologist known for the theory of punctuated equ as a way of explaining apparent rapid changes in the fossil record.

And we are out of time on that o I was looking for Stephen Jay Go my personal hero, or Niles Eldre Question 29 Colorado geologic stops.

Located west of Colorado the fluorescent... Stargate.

Garden of the Gods?

That is incorrect.

Florissant Fossil Beds National is the most prolific site in the world for fossil spe belonging to which class?

Grand Junction.

Hadrosaurs?

That is incorrect.

Of organisms.

Classical Academy.

Trees?

Good guess.

Incorrect.

It is insect or insect to the am record of fossil insects at Flor Final question.

Question 30.

Shiny, shimmery slivers.

What common silicate mineral?

Grand Junction.

Mica?

Correct answer.

And that was our final question.

Amy.

Amy, we've got a winner her And a check for $500 to the team that scored 12 points.

Our champions tonight, Grand Jun High School.

Come on over, guys.

Well, it's here for Grand Juncti All right guys.

And that is yours right here.

How are our champions feeling to We're feeling great!

Beautiful.

And I know over here we had second ten the third plac You guys did awesome as well.

Stargate and Classical Academy.

You are champions in our books a Can you come over as well?

Let's hear it for these two high schools as we And this has been really tough.

We really hope you have enjoyed the show here.

We have enjoyed hosting this hav Its been a blast!

It has been a blast.

This has been the Dino Ridge Science Quiz Bowl.

I'm Dave Aguilera, along with Amy Atwater from Dino and the entire crew here at Dino Ridge did a great job today.

We all thank you for watching and we will see you next year.