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Ecosystem Jeopardy!

$100 Question Ecology basics

Fill in the blanks below:

a group of organisms that can interbreed & .

$100 Answer Ecology basics?

Species : a group of organism that can interbreed & produce fertile offspring

$200 Question Ecology basics?

What is a group of the organism of the same species ,living in the same area at the same time.

$200 Answer Ecology basics?

Population: a group of the organism of the same species ,living in the same area at the same time.

$300 Question Ecology basics

Identify three type of heterotrophs

$300 Answer Ecology basics

SaprotrophsDetritovoresconsumers

$400 Question Ecology basics

IdentifyThe organisms that live on, or in, dead organic matter. (digesting the food by secreting enzymes).Give an example

$400 Answer Ecology basics

Saprotrophs

Examples: mushrooms/ fungus & Bacteria

$500 Question Ecology basics

Identify the autotroph in this food web.

$500 Answer Ecology Basics

Kelp/ Algae/ microscopic planktonic algae

$100 Question Energy & Food Webs

Draw an energy pyramid using one chain from this food wed

$100 Answer from Energy & Food Webs

$200 Question from Energy & Food Webs

Energy is lost as it travels from one trophic level to the next in a food chain.

Identify two places where this energy is lost.

$200 Answer from Energy & Food Webs

Heat

Respiration

Waste

movement

$300 QUESTION Energy & Food Webs

What are the units used for energy in ecosystems?

$300 Answer from Energy & Food Webs

KJ/ m2/yr

$400 Question from Energy & Food Webs

In the below energy pyramid if the primary consumers have 1000 units of energy per area over time, how much energy does the tertiary consumer

$400 Answer from Energy & Food Webs

The fish/ tertiary consumer 10 Energy Units – The

$500 Question from Energy & Food Webs

State the difference between energy flow and nutrient flow within an ecosystem.

Energy Is lost

Nutrients are recycled

$500 Answer from Energy & Food Webs

$100 Question Carbon Cycle

Identify forms/ sources of carbon in an ecosystem:

$100 Answer from Carbon CycleSources of Carbon:1. Carbon dioxide in Atmosphere2. Dissolve Carbon dioxide in ocean3. Carbon in plant material4. Carbon in animal material5. Carbon in Peat6. Carbon in Fossil fuel7. Calcium Carbonate in Coral skeleton and limestone

rock 8. Calcium Carbonate dissolved in ocean9. Carbon in in Methane gas in atmosphere

$200 Question from Carbon cycle

Identify the organism and the process that converts carbon in dead material to

Methane (CH4) gas

$200 Answer from Carbon Cycle

The organism is methanogenic bacteria/ archeans

The process is methanogenesis/ methane formation

$300 Question from Carbon Cycle

What forms when organic material is not fully decomposed because of anaerobic (no oxygen) conditions in waterlogged soils

$300 Answer from Carbon Cycle

Peat

$400 Question Carbon Cycle

What causes methane gas CH4 to be oxidize into carbon dioxide gas?

$400 Answer from carbon cycleUV Light

Monatomic oxygen (O) radicals

Hydroxyl (-OH) radicals

$500 Question from Carbon Cycle

Identify TWO processes that removes CO2 gas from the atmosphere

$500 Answer from What is Carbon Cycle

1. Photosynthesis

2. Dissolving in water/ dissolving in the ocean.

$100 Question from Climate Change

Identify three greenhouse gases

$100 Answer Climate Change

Carbon Dioxide(CO2)Methane (CH4)Water vapor Nitrogen oxide (NOx)

$200 Question Answer this Climate Change

What type of radiation does the green house gases absorb as it is trying to escape the earth.

$200 Answer this Climate Change

Long-wave radiation/ infrared radiation/ heat

$300 Question from Answer this….

The red arrow is pointing to a type of radiation. What would choice(s) below would best describe the radiation.

I. Long-wave radiationII. HeatIII. InfraredIV. Short-waved

radiationV. Visible light

$300 Answer this……?I. Short-waved

radiationII. Visible light

$400 Question from Answer this

What two things are happening at the red arrows?

$400 Answer from Answer this?

Solar radiation is being absorbed by the earth’s surface and re-emitted to the atmosphere

$500 Question Answer this…..?

The red arrow is pointing to a type of radiation. What would choice(s) below would best describe the radiation.

I. Long-wave radiationII. HeatIII. InfraredIV. Short-waved

radiationV. Visible light

$500 Answer this…..?

.The red arrow is pointing to a type of radiation. What would choice(s) below would best describe the radiation.

I. Long-wave radiationII. HeatIII. Infrared

A research measures the diameter of 35 aspen trees in areas where wolves have been re-introduced and 22 aspen trees in areas where wolves no longer exist.

What are the degrees of freedom in the researchers study?

$100 Question from Statistics

$100 Answer from StatisticsA research measures the diameter of 35 aspen trees in areas where wolves have been re-introduced and 22 aspen trees in areas where wolves no longer exist.

Degrees of Freedom for a T-test = (35 +22) -2 = 55

$200 Question from Statistics?

A researcher wants to know if there is a difference in the number of dung beetle species between really big piles of dung, medium piles of dung and small piles of dung. She collects the following data:

WHAT IS THE DEGREES OF FREEDOM?

Number of Dung Beetle Species in different Dung piles

Small Dung pile Medium Dung pile

Large dung piles

4 7 13

$200 Answer from Statistics?A researcher wants to know if there is a difference in the number of dung beetle species between really big piles of dung, medium piles of dung and small piles of dung. She collects the following data:

THE DEGREES OF FREEDOM USING CHI SQUARE

Categories-1 = 3 categories - 1 = 2

$300 QUESTION Statistics?A scientist wants to know the relationship

between the biomass of a marine worm, Arenicola, and the percentage of organic nitrogen in the sand where it lives.

What Statistics Test should she use?

$300 Answer from Statistics?A scientist wants to know the relationship

between the biomass of a marine worm, Arenicola, and the percentage of organic nitrogen in the sand where it lives.

Correlations shows relationships

Daily Double!

$400 Question from Statistics?

A teacher wants to know if sleep is important to performance on tests. So she randomly splits her class into three groups:

• A group (A )of 30 that sleeps 3 hours per night for a week, • a group (B) of 30 that sleeps 5hours per night for a week, • a group (C) of 30 that sleeps 8 hours per night. She get the

following results: • Did she find a significant difference in test performance?

Calculate Chi Square show your work.

Group A Group B Group C

Pass 15 22 25

Fail 15 8 5

$400 Answer from What am I?

Observed(O)

Expected (E)

O-E (O-E)2 (O-E)2/E

Group A 15 21 6 36 1.71

Group B 22 21 1 1 0.05

Group C 25 21 4 16 0.76

total 2.52

$500 Question from StatisticsA researcher wants to know if the type of leaf litter affects the growth rate (measured in total length grown per month) of seedling trees. She grew 11 plants in leaf litter A and 13 plants in leaf litter B.

T calculated value (computer calculates this based on measurements/ data values) = 2.1

DF = ?T Critical Value = ?Accept or Reject null hypothesis: ?

$500 Answer from StatisticsA research want to know if the type of leaf litter affect the growth rate (measured in total length grown per month) of seedling trees. She grew 11 plants in leaf litter A and 13 plants in leaf litter B.

T calculated value (computer calculates this based on measurements/ data values) = 2.1

DF = 22T Critical Value = 2.074Accept or Reject null hypothesis: Reject.

Final Jeopardy Category:

Make a wager of how much you want to bet in this final round. Write that wager on a piece of paper with your team name on it.

What am I?

Final Jeopardy Question

State which of these drawings shows and annelid and state on reason for your choice.

Final Jeopardy Answer

What is Water and Oxygen?

2H2O2 H2O + O2

Because it has segments.