Ecology Jeopardy
Organization
Energy of
Life
Interactions
Pyramids
And Webs
Cycles
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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
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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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Energy of Life for 400 Answer
• 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
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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
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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 100
Answer
• Producers
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Pyramids and Webs for 200
Answer
• Herbivores, 1st level consumers and primary
consumers.
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Pyramids and Webs for 300
Answer
• Approximately 10%
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Pyramids and Webs for 400
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• The sun
– I would also accept photosynthesis
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Pyramids and Webs for 500
Answer
• 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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