Chapter 20 Interactions of Living Things

Environment Living Things Energy Types of Interactions Misc. $100 $200 $300 $400 $500

Answer Which of the following is abiotic and why? fish, turtle, soil, or flower

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What are all the different populations that live in the same habitat and interact with each other called? Answer

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Answer What do you call a group of living things that are the same species in a specific area?

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Answer All of the biotic and abiotic factors in a community is called an ___________.

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Answer What is the study of the interaction of living things with one another and their environment?

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyEcology

What are organisms that make their own food from sunlight called? Answer

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Answer What do you call an organism that eats only animals?

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Answer What do you call an organism that eats only plants?

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Answer What do you call an organism that eats both plants and animals?

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Answer What type of organism breaks down (eats) dead things and recycles them back into the Earth?

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Answer What is a diagram that shows how energy flows from one organism to another?

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy Food Chain

Answer What do you call the diagram that shows all the feeding relationships between living things in an ecosystem?

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Answer What is the triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s loss of energy?

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Answer What type of organisms are located at the base of the energy pyramid?

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Answer What type of consumer is located at the top of the energy pyramid?

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Answer Two members of the same species fight over food. Members of different species try to take over nesting areas. These are both examples of _________.

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Answer What is the term used to describe a sparrow that has been caught and eaten by an eagle?

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Answer What do you call an organism that catches and eats other animals?

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Answer In which type of symbiosis do organisms help each other?

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyMutualism

Answer The type of symbiosis in which one organism hurts another to benefit itself.

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyParasitism

Answer What do you call the part of Earth where life exists including deep in the ocean and high in the sky?

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Answer The amount of food, water, space, shelter, etc. that are needed for life are found in limited amounts are called ___________.

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Answer What is the largest population an environment can support?

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy Carrying Capacity

Answer In which type of symbiosis does one organism benefit and the other one is unaffected?

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Answer When two species change over time due to their relationship, it is called ______________.

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