Ecology Jeopardy Directions

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Ecology Jeopardy Directions

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Ecology Jeopardy
Organization of Life
Symbiotic Relationships
Energy Transfer
Ecology Extras
Trophic Levels
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Final Jeopardy
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100 Question from Organization of Life
What is the lowest level of environmental
organization that three male egrets would all
belong in together?
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100 Answer from Organization of Life
What is a population?
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200 Question from Organization of Life
What word describes a community of organisms and
their environment?
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200 Answer from Organization of Life
What is ecosystem?
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300 Question from Organization of Life
The part of Earth where life exists.
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300 Answer from Organization of Life
What is the biosphere?
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400 Question from Organization of Life
A __________ is several species of animals
interacting, while a population is members of
one species in an area.
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400 Answer from Organization of Life
What is a community?
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500 Question from Organization of Life
The five levels of organization in the
environment, from first to fifth level, are.
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500 Answer from Organization of Life
What is . Organism, population, community,
ecosystem, and biosphere?
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100 Question from Energy Transfer
A food web shows energy connections better than a
food _______.
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100 Answer from Energy Transfer
What is chain?
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200 Question from Energy Transfer
Living things that make their own food from
sunlight are ________.
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200 Answer from Energy Transfer
What are producers (or autotrophs)?
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300 Question from Energy Transfer
A triangular diagram that shows an ecosystems
loss of energy.
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300 Answer from Energy Transfer
What is an energy pyramid?
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400 Question from Energy Transfer
A simple diagram that shows how energy in food
flows from one rganism to another.
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400 Answer from Energy Transfer
What is a food chain?
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500 Question from Energy Transfer
In a food web, arrows point in just one
direction because they show how energy goes to
the animal.. .that is eating OR that is eaten?
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500 Answer from Energy Transfer
What is the animal THAT IS EATING?
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100 Question from Trophic Levels
An organism that eats only plants.
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100 Answer from Trophic Levels
What is an herbivore?
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200 Question from Trophic Levels
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
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200 Answer from Trophic Levels
What is an omnivore?
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300 Question from Trophic Levels
A spider that feeds on live insects is an example
of a(n)
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300 Answer from Trophic Levels
What is predator (alsoconsumer/carnivore)?
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400 Question from Trophic Levels
An organism that breaks down organic matter,
recycling nutrients back into the environment,
e.g., bacteria and fungi.
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400 Answer from Trophic Levels
What are decomposers?
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500 Question from Trophic Levels
What word describes ALL the living organisms
found at each of the ecological trophic levels?
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500 Answer from Trophic Levels
What is biotic?
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100 Question from Symbiotic Relationships
Young wasps are eating the tomato hornworm that
is their host. this is an example of_________.
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100 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships
What is parasitism?
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200 Question from Symbiotic Relationships
Two members of the same species fight over how
gets a certain food. Members of different species
try to take over a certain nesting area. These
are both examples of ____.
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200 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships
What is competition?
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300 Question from Symbiotic Relationships
In this type of symbiosis, organisms help each
other.
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300 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships
What is mutualism?
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400 Question from Symbiotic Relationships
When a long-term change takes place in two
species because of their close interactions with
one another, the change is called __________.
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400 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships
What is coevolution?
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500 Question from Symbiotic Relationships
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism
benefits and the other is neither helped nor
harmed.
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500 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships
What is commensalism?
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100 Question from Ecology Extras
The study of interactions between living things
and their environment is ______________.
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100 Answer from Ecology Extras
What is ecology?
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200 Question from Ecology Extras
An environmental study reporting on the way
temperature, water quality, and minerals affect
the animals in a salt marsh would be considering
this level of organization.
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200 Answer from Ecology Extras
What is ecosystem?
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300 Question from Ecology Extras
Rocks, temperature, and water are what part of
the environment?
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300 Answer from Ecology Extras
What is abiotic?
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400 Question from Ecology Extras
The term used to describe a sparrow that has
been caught by an eagle.
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400 Answer from Ecology Extras
What is prey?
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500 Question from Ecology Extras
The organisms that feed on dead Organisms are
specifically called ___________. A subcategory
of This group includes the decomposers.
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500 Answer from Ecology Extras
What are detritivores?
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Final Jeopardy - Subject
Interactions with the Environment
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Final Jeopardy Question
The largest population that an environment can
support without doing irrevocable damage to the
environment is called the ___________.
Answer
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Final Jeopardy Answer
What is carrying capacity?