ECOLOGY & SUSTAINABILITY JEOPARDY ECOLOGY & SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability Food Webs Ecosystems Interactions Population Growth 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

What is SUSTAINABILITY? Sustainability for 100 Using resources in a manner that allows them to be available for future generations What is SUSTAINABILITY?

Sustainability for 200 Energy consumption; CO2 emissions; protected areas What are examples of ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS?

Sustainability for 300 Giving up something beneficial in order to gain something more desirable What is a TRADE-OFF?

Sustainability for 400 Increase in nutrients leads to algal blooms What is EUTROPHICATION?

Sustainability for 500 Burning of fossil fuels & deforestation What factors increase effect of GLOBAL WARMING?

This happens to energy as it moves through the food web Food Web for 100 This happens to energy as it moves through the food web What is DECREASE?

Food Web for 200 Receives the most amount of energy What is the PLANTS/BOTTOM OF PYRAMID?

can be both primary consumer & secondary consumer Food Web for 300 can be both primary consumer & secondary consumer What is an OMNIVORE?

Food Web for 400 How the spiders will be affected if the owls were removed What is their POPULATION WILL INCREASE?

Food Web for 500 As energy moves through the food web, there is only about 10% available energy for next trophic level…most is lost as… What is HEAT?

What are ABIOTIC FACTORS? Ecosystems for 100 Sunlight, food, soil pH What are ABIOTIC FACTORS?

Gray squirrels in a forest Category 3 for 200 Gray squirrels in a forest What is a POPULATION?

Ecosystems for 300 Organisms that make their own food What is an AUTOTROPH/CONSUMER?

Ecosystems for 400 Plants & animals interacting with one another & their abiotic environment What is an ECOSYSTEM?

Vultures, hyenas, raccoons Ecosystems for 500 Vultures, hyenas, raccoons What are SCAVENGERS?

Both organisms benefit in a relationship Interactions for 100 Both organisms benefit in a relationship What is MUTUALISM?

What is a PREDATOR/PREY relationship? Interactions for 200 Lynx & rabbit What is a PREDATOR/PREY relationship?

Interactions for 300 Close association between 2 different species where at least one species benefits What is SYMBIOSIS?

What is an INVASIVE SPECIES? Interactions for 400 A species has been introduced to control a pest population…due to adaptability, the introduced species thrives in the ecosystem and in addition to eating the pest species…also feeds on several other beneficial species What is an INVASIVE SPECIES?

Interactions for 500 Increases competition within an ecosystem What are LIMITING FACTORS?

What is LOGISTIC (S)/carrying capacity graph? Population Growth for 100 Click and type answer What is LOGISTIC (S)/carrying capacity graph?

Population Growth for 200 Population decline is inevitable when a population exceeds What is CARRYING CAPACITY?

Population Growth for 300 Disease, predators, competition What is DENSITY- DEPENDENT LIMITING FACTORS?

Population Growth for 400 This describes the growth of Mexico… What is GROWING RAPIDLY?

What this graph illustrates… Population Growth for 500 What this graph illustrates… What is predator-prey relationship? What is regulation of population size?

DAILY DOUBLE

FINAL JEOPARDY What are DENSITY INDEPENDENT LIMITING FACTORS? Frost wipes out 50% of orange crop in Florida Hurricane Fran destroys 10,000 acres of forest Wake County clears 100 acres of land to build a new high school What are DENSITY INDEPENDENT LIMITING FACTORS?