Biology Ecology Jeopardy

Levels of Organizatio n Successio n Food Chain Food Web and Pyramids Cycles/ Random

Question: What is a biotic factor? Give an example of one What is an abiotic factor? Give an example of one Check Your Answer Levels of Organization for 100

Answer: Biotic-A living factor in an ecosystem Ex-plants, animals, fungi, etc. Abiotic- Non-living factor Rocks, Temperature, Sunlight, Water, etc. Levels of Organization for 100 Return to the Main Board

Question: One type of species that lives in a one area is called? Check Your Answer Levels of Organization for 100

Answer: Population Levels of Organization for 200 Return to the Main Board

Question: The combined portions of Earth in which all living things exist? Levels of Organization for 300 Check Your Answer

Answer: Biosphere Levels of Organization for 300 Return to the Main Board

Question: What do you call the way the organism role or job in the ecosystem? Levels of Organization for 400 Check Your Answer

Answer: It’s Niche Levels of Organization for 400 Back to Game Board

Question: List the levels of organization in order from smallest to biggest Check Your Answer Levels of Organization for 500

Answer: Organism, Populations, Communities, Ecosystems, Biomes, and Biosphere Levels of Organization for 500 Back to Game Board

Question: The first species to inhabitant an area is called ___________. Check Your Answer Succession for 100

Answer: Pioneer Species Succession for 100 Back to Game Board

Question: What is succession? Check Your Answer Graphing for 200

Answer: a series of predictable changes that occur in an ecosystem or community Succession for 200 Back to Game Board

Question: What is the difference in primary and secondary succession? Check Your Answer Succession for 300

Answer: Primary succession happens on exposed surfaces (No Soil) and Secondary succession happens on soil. Succession for 300 Back to Game Board

Question: List one reason why primary succession and one reason why secondary succession would occur. Check Your Answer Succession for 400

Answer: Primary Succession: Volcanic Eruption, Glaciers melting Secondary Succession: Fires, Clearing Land for growing, grazing etc. Succession for 400 Back to Game Board

Check Your Answer Succession for What is the pioneer species? 2.What is the climax community? 3.What type of succession is this?

Answer: 1. Pioneer Species Lichen and Moss 2.Climax Community- Forests 3. Primary Succession Succession for 500 Back to Game Board

Question: Organisms that cannot produce their own food are called? (Use both names) Check Your Answer Food Chain for 100

Answer: Heterotrophs and Consumers Back to Game Board Food Chain for 100

Question: What do we call organisms who produce their own food and from where do they get their energy? Check Your Answer Food Chain for 200

Answer: Producers and Autotrophs The Sun Back to Game Board Food Chain for 200

Question: If a rabbit eats grass and the rabbit is eaten by a fox. What is the fox’s trophic level in the food chain? Check Your Answer Food Chain for 300

Answer: Secondary Consumer Back to Game Board Food Chain for 300

Question: 1.What is the producer in the food chain? 2.What is the secondary consumer? 3.What is the primary consumer? Check Your Answer Food Chain for 400

Answer: Producer= Leaves Secondary Consumer=Frog Primary Consumer= Slug Back to Game Board Food Chain for 400

Briefly define the following food chain terms HerbivoreCarnivore Omnivore Decomposer Check Your Answer Food Chain for 500

Herbivore- consumer that eats only plants Omnivore- consumer that eats both plants and animals Carnivore- consumer that eats only meat Decomposer- consumer feeds and breaks down dead plants and animals Back to Game Board Food Chain for 500

Question: All the interconnected feeding relationships in an ecosystem make up a ________. Check Your Answer Food Webs and Pyramids for 100

Answer: Food Web Back to Game Board Food Webs and Pyramids for 100

Question: Name the 3 types of Symbiosis and describe them Check Your Answer Food Webs and Pyramids for 200

Answer: Mutualism-both organisms benefit Commensalism-one benefits one is unaffected Parasitism- one benefits and one is harmed Back to Game Board Food Webs and Pyramids for 200

Question: What happens to energy as it goes from the bottom to the top of the pyramid? What happens to biomass as it goes from the bottom to the top of the pyramid? What happens to the numbers of organisms as it goes from the bottom to the top of the pyramid?(General Trends) Check Your Answer Food Webs and Pyramids for 300

Answer: They all decrease as you go from producers to each level of consumers. Back to Game Board Food Webs and Pyramids for 300

Question: List all the primary consumers List all the secondary consumers Check Your Answer Food Webs and Pyramids for 400

Answer: Primary Consumers: Rabbits, Squirrels, Mice, Seed eating Birds, herbivorous insects Secondary Consumers: Foxes, Hawks and Owls, Snakes Spiders, insectivorous birds, and predacious insects Back to Game Board Food Webs and Pyramids for 400

Check Your Answer Food Web and Pyramids for 500 Question: Which trophic level has the most energy? What percentage of energy moves on to the next trophic level? What happens to the energy that is not used for life processes or passed to the next level?

Answer: Producer 10% Lost as heat Back to Game Board Food Web and Pyramids for 500

Check Your Answer Scientific Method/Random for 100 Question: What is the first step in the scientific method?

State the problem in question form Back to Game Board Cycles/Random for 100

Check Your Answer Cycles/Random for 200 Question: What is the variable that the scientist measures called?

Answer: Dependent Back to Game Board Cycles/Random for 200

Question: What is the variable that the scientist changes or manipulates? Check Your Answer Cycles/Random For 300

Answer: Independent Variable Back to Game Board Cycles/Random for 300

What is a habitat? Give an example of one Check Your Answer Cycles/Random for 400

The place where an organism lives and gets its food. Tree, Pond, Field, Forest Back to Game Board Cycles/Random for 400

Question: Give an example of two types of symbiosis Check Your Answer Cycles/Random for 500

Example-Parsitism- Deer and Tick Tapeworm and Pig Commensalism-Barnacle and Whale Owl and Cactus Mutualism-Flower and Bee Barberfish and Shark Back to Game Board Cycles/Random for 500