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Understanding Ecology: Key Concepts and Ecosystem Dynamics

Explore the essential principles of ecology, focusing on the interactions between organisms and their environments. This guide covers vital concepts such as biotic and abiotic factors, competition, predation, and different types of succession. Learn about symbiotic relationships like mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism. Understand how food chains function and the impact of species populations, such as the connection between mountain lions and deer. Dive into the different biomes, including deciduous forests and deserts, and examine ecological cycles such as the water and nitrogen cycles.

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Understanding Ecology: Key Concepts and Ecosystem Dynamics

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  1. JeopardyChapters 1 & 2: Ecology

  2. The study of organisms and their environment Answer

  3. What is Ecology? Back

  4. The parts of an ecosystem that are living or were once living. Answer

  5. What are biotic factors? Back

  6. The struggle between organisms to survive. Answer

  7. What is competition? Back

  8. The type of succession that appears after a forest fire has destroyed almost all of an ecosystem. Answer

  9. What is secondary succession? Back

  10. How could the population of mountain lions be affected by the population of deer? Answer

  11. Both populations increase or decrease together. Back

  12. Create a food chain using Raccoon, mouse, seeds, hawk Answer

  13. Seeds  mouse  raccoon  hawk Back

  14. Hunting has decreased the population of hawks, what could happen to the population of mice? Answer

  15. The population of mice could rise. Back

  16. Name the five abiotic factors in an ecosystem. Answer

  17. oxygen, water, soil, temperature, and sunlight Back

  18. The relationship between predator and prey. Answer

  19. What is predation? Back

  20. The symbiotic relationship when one organisms lives on or in another organism. Answer

  21. What is parasitism? Back

  22. DAILY DOUBLE! The symbiotic relationship that occurs when organisms both benefit. Answer

  23. What is mutualism? Back

  24. The symbiotic relationship that occurs when one organism benefits and the other is not affected. Answer

  25. What is commensalism? Back

  26. Which biome do you live in? Answer

  27. What is deciduous forest? Back

  28. The biome that is hot and dry with little to no rain. Answer

  29. What is the desert? Back

  30. The biome with dense forests of coniferous trees. Answer

  31. What is the Boreal Forest? Back

  32. What are the two types of rainforest biomes? Answer

  33. What are temperate and tropical? Back

  34. Which cycle includes evaporation? Answer

  35. The water cycle Back

  36. The cycle that includes animals taking in oxygen from plants. Answer

  37. Answers vary. Carbon & Oxygen Cycle Back

  38. The process where free nitrogen becomes fixed nitrogen. Answer

  39. Nitrogen fixation Back

  40. Draw the water cycle diagram. Answer

  41. Answers vary. Back

  42. All autotrophs are considered to be consumers or producers? Answer

  43. producers Back

  44. Are consumers autotrophs or heterotrophs? Answer

  45. Heterotrophs Back

  46. Organisms that move into a population. Answer

  47. Immigration Back

  48. The first species to populate an area? Answer

  49. Pioneer species Back

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