Ecology Jeopardy

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Play it Again! Jeopardy Rules • There are four teams. • The winning team earns five extra points on the test. Second place earns four points. Third place earns three. Fourth place earns two. • Each team has a spokesperson for each question. Only the spokesperson can answer for the group. The spokesperson must yell out the team number to indicate answer. • Wrong answer means loss of points. • Yelling out of turn means loss of points. • Each person in the group must be spokesperson at least once before anyone goes twice

$100 Question from Ecosystems What do you call the non-living components of an ecosystem? Correct! Incorrect

$100 Answer from Ecosystems Abiotic factors

$200 Question from Ecosystems In a single food chain, is the most biomass represented by the producers, the primary consumers, or the secondary consumers? Correct! Incorrect

$200 Answer from Ecosystems The producers

$300 Question from Ecosystems Why can’t consumers access all of the sun’s energy that is absorbed by producers in an ecosystem? Correct! Incorrect

$300 Answer from Ecosystems Because the energy gets used up in life processes

$400 Question from Ecosystems What is the meaning of the word “community” in an ecosystem? Correct! Incorrect

$400 Answer from Ecosystems All of the populations that live and interact in an ecosystem

$500 Question from Ecosystems Are carnivores autotrophic, heterotrophic or decomposers? Correct! Incorrect

$500 Answer from Ecosystems heterotrophic

$100 Question from Cycles List three types of matter that cycle within the environment Correct! Incorrect

$100 Answer from Cycles Carbon, nitrogen, and water

$200 Question from Cycles Through what process does carbon enter into the biotic portion of an ecosystem? Correct! Incorrect

$200 Answer from Cycles photosynthesis

$300 Question from Cycles What role do legumes (beans, clover, etc.) play in the nitrogen cycle? Correct! Incorrect

$300 Answer from Cycles Symbiotic bacteria in the roots of legumes fix nitrogen from the atmosphere and make it available to other plants.

$400 Question from Cycles What is the process called by which water moves from plants back into the atmosphere? Correct! Incorrect

$400 Answer from Cycles transpiration

$500 Question from Cycles What is the greenhouse effect? Correct! Incorrect

$500 Answer from Cycles Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will cause a rise in Earth’s termperatures. This is known as “global warming

$100 Question from Succession What is “succession?” Correct! Incorrect

$100 Answer from Succession The regular progression of species replacement in an environment

$200 Question from Succession What is the difference between primary and secondary succession? Correct! Incorrect

$200 Answer from Succession In primary succession, organisms colonize bare rock. Secondary succession occurs after an environmental event like a fire.

$300 Question from Succession What is a “climax community?” Correct! Incorrect

$300 Answer from Succession A final community of organisms within any ecosystem

$400 Question from Succession As succession proceeds, new _ _ _ _ _ _ become available for organisms to fill. Correct! Incorrect

$400 Answer from Succession niches

$500 Question from Succession What mutualistic relationship represents the first colonists as life comes to bare rock? Correct! Incorrect

$500 Answer from Succession Lichens—a symbiotic relationship between algae and fungae

$100 Question from Interactions What is the general term for the organisms that a predator pursues? Correct! Incorrect

$100 Answer from Interactions Prey

$200 Question from Interactions What is “coevolution?” Correct! Incorrect

$200 Answer from Interactions Back and forth evolutionary adjustments between organisms in an ecosystem that lead to a close match of characteristics.

$300 Question from Interactions What is the general term for a close, long-term association among two or more species? Correct! Incorrect

$300 Answer from Interactions symbiosis

$400 Question from Interactions E. Coli bacteria in the human gut and their human hosts live in what kind of symbiotic relationship? Correct! Incorrect

$400 Answer from Interactions mutualism

$500 Question from Interactions Is the relationship between humans and viruses usually one of mutualism, commensalism, or parasitism? Explain Correct! Incorrect

$500 Answer from Interactions Parasitism. Although the viruses have a place to live, the humans are usually made sick by this interaction.

$100 Question from Mr. L’s GBOF • Which term includes the others? • Mutualism • parasitism • symbiosis • commensalism Correct! Incorrect

$100 Answer from Mr. L’s GBOF Symbiosis

$200 Question from Mr. L’s GBOF • Which of the following is not • recycled? • energy • carbon • nitrogen • water Correct! Incorrect

$200 Answer from Mr. L’s GBOF Energy

$300 Question from Mr. L’s GBOF How do scavengers get their energy? Correct! Incorrect

$300 Answer from Mr. L’s GBOF They eat dead organisms

$400 Question from Mr. L’s GBOF What is the relationship between the independent and the dependent variables in a scientific experiment? Correct! Incorrect

$400 Answer from Mr. L’s GBOF The independent variable is changed by the investigator. The dependent variable is the thing that changes as a result of the change in the independent variable.

Ecology Jeopardy