Ecology JeopardyOrganization Energy of

LifeInteractions Pyramids

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Final Jeopardy

Organization for 100

• What do ecologists call the non-living parts of the environment?

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Organization for 200

• What layer of organization includes the living and nonliving parts of the environment?

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Organization for 300

• What layer of organization is the smallest and most focused?

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Organization for 400

• What layer of organization covers just a single species?

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Organization for 500

• What are the six levels of Organization that Ecologist use to classify living things.

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Organization for 100 Answer

• Abiotic

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Organization for 200 Answer

• Ecosystem

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Organization for 300 Answer

• Individual

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Organization for 400 Answer

• Population

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Organization for 500 Answer

• Individual• Population• Community• Ecosystem• Biome• Biosphere

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Energy of Life for 100

• What do we call the living things in the environment that make their own food using the resources of the earth?

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Energy of Life for 200

• What classification of animals eats only plants?

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Energy of Life for 300

• What classification of animals eats only other animals?

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Energy of Life for 400

• What classification of animals eats both plants and animals?

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Energy of Life for 500

• What classification of animal breaks down and recycles dead organisms?

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Energy of Life for 100 Answer

• Producers

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Energy of Life for 200 Answer

• Herbivore

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Energy of Life for 300 Answer

• Carnivore

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• Omnivore

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Energy of Life for 500 Answer

• Decomposers

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Interactions for 100

• What are the 4 main types of interactions between organisms?

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Interactions for 200

• What type of relationship occurs when one organism eats another?

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Interactions for 300

• Flowers and bees and ant and acacia trees are examples of which type of interaction between organisms?

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Interactions for 400

• What type of interaction is when 2 organisms live closely with each other for a long time?

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Interactions for 500

• What do organisms compete for in nature?

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Interactions for 100 Answers

• Competition• Predator / prey• Symbiotic• Co evolution

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Interactions for 200 Answers

• Predator / Prey

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Interactions for 300 Answers

• Co evolution

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Interactions for 400 Answers

• Symbiosis

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Interactions for 500 Answers

• Mates• Space• Food• Resources

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Pyramids and Webs for 100

• What do we call the lowest level of the Energy Pyramid?

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Pyramids and Webs for 200

• What are the things that eat the producers called? Name all 3

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Pyramids and Webs for 300

• How much energy is carried from one level in the pyramid to the next?

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Pyramids and Webs for 400

• Where does all energy come from?

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Pyramids and Webs for 500

• How much energy would be available to the 3rd level consumer if the sun emitted 25000 units of energy into the ecosystem?

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Pyramids and Webs for 100Answer

• Producers

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Pyramids and Webs for 200Answer

• Herbivores, 1st level consumers and primary consumers.

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Pyramids and Webs for 300Answer

• Approximately 10%

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Pyramids and Webs for 400Answer

• The sun – I would also accept photosynthesis

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Pyramids and Webs for 500Answer

• 2.5 Units

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Cycles for 100

• What is the natural change of ecosystems over time called

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Cycles for 200

• In the carbon cycle what gas is used to cycle carbon throughout the ecosystem

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Cycles for 300

• In the water cycle after precipitation occurs water can collect in two places the surface and underground aquifers. What are these two processes called.

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Cycles for 400

• Daily Double • In the nitrogen cycle what organisms are

responsible for converting Nitrogen gas to nitrates and nitrates to nitrogen gas. What are these two processes called

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Cycles for 500

• In what ways are the carbon cycle and nitrogen cycle contributing to changes within our biosphere

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Cycles for 100 Answer

• Ecological Succession

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Cycles for 200 Answer

• Carbon Dioxide

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Cycles for 300 Answer

• What is runoff and inflitration

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Cycles for 400 Answer

• Bacteria are responsible for Nitrogen Fixation and denitrification

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Cycles for 500 Answer

• The burning of fossil fuels in the carbon cycle contributes to climate change while the nitrogen cycle creates the nitric acid that falls as acid rain and causes eutrophication of fresh water sources

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Final Jeopardy

• Explain the concept of a Limiting Factor. Give three examples of Limiting factors.

Final Jeopardy Answer

• A limiting factor is something that determine the carrying capacity or largest population an ecosystem can support at any point in time. Examples of Limiting factors are nutrients(nitrogen in plants), water(organisms in the desert), shelter(loss of habitat), clean air, food, competition, predation, and disease.

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