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Earth
Jeopardy
Basic
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Food
BIOMES
Ecology A Ecology B Chains/Webs
Population Biodiversity
Ecology
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Final Jeopardy
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$100 Basic Ecology
Study of the relationships
between organisms
and their environment
$100 Answer from Ecology
What is Ecology?
$200 Basic Ecology
Sunlight
Temperature
Moisture
Nutrients
are all ____________ components of an ecosystem
$200 Answer from Water Cycle
What are
abiotic factors?
$300 Basic Ecology
Groups of organism that
resemble each other
in appearance, behavior,
chemistry and genetics,
and can produce fertile
offspring
$300 Answer from Basic
Ecology
What is a Species?
$400 Basic Ecology
COMMUNITY OF
DIFFERENT SPECIES
INTERACTING WITH
EACH OTHER AND
THEIR NON-LIVING
ENVIRONMENT OF
MATTER AND ENERGY.
$400 answer Basic Ecology
What is an ecosystem?
$500 Question Basic Ecology
Group of interacting individuals
of same species, in a
specific area and specific time.
$500 Answer Basic Ecology
What is a Population?
$600 Question Basic Ecology
Elimination of
this species type
can have drastic effects
on a community
(reduction in diversity)
$600 answer Basic Ecology
What is a keystone species?
$100 Basic Ecology B
Place where a population
or an organism lives
$100 Answer Basic Ecology B
What is a habitat?
$200 Question Basic Ecology B
complex interacting
network of plants, animals,
and microorganisms
$200 Answer Basic Ecology B
What is a community?
$300 Question Basic Ecology B
describes what an organism does
and how it interacts with the
biotic and abiotic factors in the
environment.
$300 Answer Basic Ecology B
What is a niche?
$400 Question Basic Ecology B
A species that is more sensitive
to environmental degradation
and can serve as an early warning
$400 Answer Basic Ecology B
What is an
indicator species?
$500 Question Basic Ecology B
Species that migrate into an ecosystem or
are deliberately or accidentally introduced
into an ecosystem by humans.
$500 Answer Basic Ecology
What is a non-native
species?
$600 Question Basic Ecology B
1. Supplies energy for
photosynthesis
2. Powers the cycling of matter.
3. Drives the climate and weather
systems
$600 Answer Basic Ecology B
What is the sun?
$100 Question Food Chains/Webs
make their own food from
compounds obtained from environment.
$100 Answer from
Food Chains/Webs
What is a producer?
$200 Question from
Food Chains/Webs
ability of producer to convert
sunlight, abiotic nutrients to
sugars and other complex
organic compounds
$200 Answer from
Food Chains/Webs
What is photosynthesis?
$300 Question from
Food Chains/Webs
Bacteria can convert simple
compounds from their environment
into more complex nutrient compound
without sunlight
$300 Answer from
Food Chains/Webs
What is
Chemosynthesis?
$400 Question from
Food Chains/Webs
Obtain energy and nutrients by
feeding on other organisms
$400 Answer from
Food Chains/Webs
What are
Consumers?
$500 Question from
Food Chains/Webs
These two consumer
types live off
of detritus
( types of detritivores)
$500 Answer from
Food Chains/Webs
What are detritus feeders
and decomposers?
$600 Question from
Food Chains/Webs
The loss of this at each trophic level is
why energy flow pyramids
rarely have more than 4 levels
$600 Answer from
Food Chains/Webs
What is heat energy?
$100 Question from BIOMES
What biome?
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cold, vast, treeless area
of low, swampy plains
• Most of Greenland
• Coldest biome
• Contains permafrost
$100 Answer from
BIOMES
What is the tundra?
$200 Question BIOMES
• Major regions are found in
eastern North America, Europe,
and eastern Asia
• deciduous
• 4 seasons
$200 Answer BIOMES
What is temperate?
$300 Question BIOMES
• one-fifth of the earth's land surface
• Great Basin, the Mojave, the Sonoran,
and the Chihuahuan
• Cold at night, hot in daytime
$300 Answer from BIOMES
What is a desert?
$400 Question BIOMES
• hot, dry climates that are
perfect for growing food
..• receives so little rain that
very few trees can grow
$400 Answer BIOMES
What is grassland?
$500 Question BIOMES
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Largest forests on earth
Found below the tundra
Trees mostly conifers
Soil is wet, thick, spongy
$500 Answer BIOMES
What is Taiga?
$100 Question
Population Ecology
The number of individuals
that can be sustained in a
given space
$100 Answer Population Ecology
What is
Carrying capacity?
$200 Question Population Ecology
the number of individuals in
a population at a given time
$200 Answer Population Ecology
What is population size?
$300 Question Population
Ecology
Besides food, a biotic factor that could
cause a population to increase
$300 Answer Population Ecology
Multiple answers
$400 Question Population Ecology
Abiotic factor that might
cause a population to
migrate closer to the north pole
$400 Answer Population Ecology
What is temperature
increase?
$500 Question Population Ecology
When resources are unlimited a
population might exhibit this type of
growth
$500 answer Population Ecology
What is exponential growth?
$100 Question Biodiversity
Essential to the quality of human life
and to the functioning of the world’s
economies $$$$$
$100 Biodiversity Answer
What is biodiversity?
$200 Question Biodiversity
A service of biodiversity - provides
renewable and nonrenewable _________
$200 Answer Biodiversity
resources
$300 Question Biodiversity
Biodiversity helps recycle these
important substances
$300 Answer Biodiversity
What are nutrients?
$400 Question Biodiversity
Slowed or prevented by
biodiversity near
a river.
$400 Answer Biodiversity
What is erosion or flooding?
$500 Question Biodiversity
Human population growth threatens
biodiversity by fragmenting
and degrading this
$500 Answer Biodiversity
What is habitat?
$600 Question Biodiversity
Biodiversity helps to
control populations of these
organisms (2) that often destroy
crops or make animals sick
$600 Answer Biodiversity
What are pests and diseases?
Final Jeopardy
Many “limiting factors” effect the growth of a population. MATCH the
following to the correct letter in the BOX.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Increase predator population
Increase prey population
Loss of habitat
Low reproductive rate
Favorable light
Inability to hide
INCREASE
A. ABIOTIC
B. BIOTIC
DECREASE
C. ABIOTIC
D. BIOTIC
$400 per correct answer
Final Jeopardy Answer
1. D
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. A
6. D