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Ecology Jeopardy

Parts of an Ecosystem Relation- ships Nutrition Changes in an Ecosystem Energy $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Exit

Parts of an Ecosystem for $100 Any organism that performs photosynthesis. Answer

(or autotrophs or producers) Green Plants (or autotrophs or producers) Back to the Board

Parts of an Ecosystem for $200 Any organism that must obtain food and eat to obtain nutrients. Answer

Consumer Back to the Board

Parts of an Ecosystem $300 Any organism that causes dead organisms to decay, recycling nutrients back into the soil. Answer

Decomposers (or saprophytes) Back to the Board

Parts of an Ecosystem for $400 Term meaning “Organic material” that is present in an ecosystem. This type of factor is either an organism (dead or alive), or some product of an organism (like feces or tree sap). Answer

Biotic Factor Back to the Board

Parts of an Ecosystem for $500 Three examples of Abiotic Factors that could be found in an ecosystem. Answer

Water, Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen, Temperature, Terrain, etc. Back to the Board

Animal that hunts for its food. Relationships for $100 Animal that hunts for its food. Answer

Predator Back to the Board

Animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal. Relationships for $200 Animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal. Answer

Prey Back to the Board

What is another name for the organism that eats producers? Relationships for $300 What is another name for the organism that eats producers? Answer

Primary Consumer Back to the Board

Relationships for $400 Name for the type of organism that eats other organisms. (not carnivore) Answer

Secondary Consumer Back to the Board

What do the arrows in a food chain or web represent? Relationships for $500 What do the arrows in a food chain or web represent? Answer

Passing energy on from one source to another Back to the Board

What do “Producers” produce? Nutrition for $100 What do “Producers” produce? Answer

Glucose (food) Back to the Board

Primary consumers in a food chain must always eat what kind of food? Nutrition for $200 Primary consumers in a food chain must always eat what kind of food? Answer

Green Plants Back to the Board

Term used to describe animals that eat both plants and other animals Nutrition for $300 Term used to describe animals that eat both plants and other animals Answer

Omnivore Back to the Board

The term used to describe animals that eat producers. Nutrition for $400 The term used to describe animals that eat producers. Answer

Herbivores Back to the Board

Nutrition for $500 Term used to describe a complicated pattern of overlapping food chains. Answer

Food web Back to the Board

Changes in an Ecosystem for $100 An organism’s role in the ecosystem Answer

Niche Back to the Board

Changes in an Ecosystem for $200 Process of change that occurs in an ecosystem as new plant and animal life enter Answer

Ecological Succession Back to the Board

Changes in an Ecosystem for $300 Term used to describe a stable ecosystem that has completed succession Answer

Climax Community Back to the Board

Changes in an Ecosystem for $400 Term used to describe an ecosystem that is starting over after a major event Answer

Primary Succession Back to the Board

Changes in an Ecosystem for $500 Term used to describe an environment that begins recover quickly after an event Answer

Secondary Succession Back to the Board

Energy for $100 All of the energy that is present in an ecosystem comes from this source Answer

Sun Back to the Board

Type of organism that can transform light energy into chemical energy Energy for $200 Type of organism that can transform light energy into chemical energy Answer

Green Plants Back to the Board

Percentage of calories passed on at each step up on the food chain. Energy for $300 Percentage of calories passed on at each step up on the food chain. Answer

10% is passed on, 90% is lost Back to the Board

How is energy transferred from one organism to another Energy for $400 How is energy transferred from one organism to another Answer

Consumer eats the producer or another consumer Back to the Board

Energy for $500 These two types of organisms must be present in order for an ecosystem to be self-sustaining. Answer

Producers and Decomposers Back to the Board

Final Jeopardy

Term for the sustainability of an ecosystem

Biodiversity

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