Ecosystem Jeopardy Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy Rules

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 Play it Again!

$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? IncorrectCorrect!

$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? IncorrectCorrect!

$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? IncorrectCorrect!

$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? IncorrectCorrect!

$500 Answer from Ecosystems heterotrophic

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

$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? IncorrectCorrect!

$200 Answer from Cycles photosynthesis

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

$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? IncorrectCorrect!

$400 Answer from Cycles transpiration

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

$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?” IncorrectCorrect!

$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? IncorrectCorrect!

$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?” IncorrectCorrect!

$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. IncorrectCorrect!

$400 Answer from Succession niches

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

$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? IncorrectCorrect!

$100 Answer from Interactions Prey

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

$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? IncorrectCorrect!

$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? IncorrectCorrect!

$400 Answer from Interactions mutualism

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

$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 IncorrectCorrect!

$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 IncorrectCorrect!

$200 Answer from Mr. L’s GBOF Energy

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

$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? IncorrectCorrect!

$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.

$500 Question from Mr. L’s GBOF Through what process does carbon within living things return to the atmosphere directly? IncorrectCorrect!

$500 Answer from Mr. L’s GBOF respiration

Final Jeopardy Continue to Final Jeopardy

Write out equations to represent the main reactants and products of photosynthesis and respiration. Answer

In photosynthesis, carbon dioxide and water carbon dioxide and water are combined, using energy from the sun, to create sugars. In respiration, those sugars are burned in the presence of oxygen to produce energy. Carbon dioxide and water are produced as byproducts. Final Jeopardy Answer