Jeopardy Succesion Food Chain/Web Organisms Carbon Cycle Misc Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Succession Name two types of primary Succession plants

$100 Answer from Succession Moss Lichen Algae

$200 Question from Succession What type of succession would a densely covered Forest area be called?

$200 Answer from Succession Climax Community

$300 Question from Succession What is an example of Secondary succession?

$300 Answer from Succession Plants growing after a forest fire

$400 Question from Succession Climates changing over time Makes _______________ possible.

$400 Answer from Succession Succession

$500 Question from Succession What is “old field” succession Referring to?

$500 Answer from Succession Changing from grasses, to Bushes, to small trees, to Tall trees

$100 Question from Food Chain/Web What type of organism is Likely to be in the bottom of Trophic level of a food chain In the ocean?

$100 Answer from Food Chain/Web Phytoplankton or Algae

$200 Question from Food Chain/Web What term is used to refer to the many feeding relationships that are possible in an ecosystem?

$200 Answer from Food Chain/Web Food Web

$300 Question from Food Chain/Web If an insect eats a plant, then A bird eats the insect, about How much energy from the plant Is stored in the insect for the bird To use?

$300 Answer from Food Chain/Web sun to plant 10%, plant to insect 1% (1/10 th each trophic Level)

$400 Question from Food Chain/Web What is the ultimate energy Source for consumers?

$400 Answer from Food Chain/Web Sun

$500 Question from Food Chain/Web What kind of organism obtains Energy from a producer?

$500 Answer from Food Chain/Web herbivores

$100 Question from Organisms Name a photosynthetic organism

$100 Answer from Organisms Freshwater Algae Plant

$200 Question from Organisms How do consumers obtain carbon?

$200 Answer from Organisms Indirectly by eating producers

$300 Question from Organisms What is chemosynthesis?

$300 Answer from Organisms Processing energy from Hydrogen Sulfide found in “Smokers”

$400 Question from Organisms Bacteria that live within roots Of plants play a critical part in The nitrogen cycle because they…

$400 Answer from Organisms “fix” nitrogen so that the plant can use it

$500 Question from Organisms What type of vegetation Would you expect to find On an abandoned farm that has Been undisturbed for 150 years?

$500 Answer from Organisms Tall, mature trees

$100 Question from Carbon Cycle What role do plants play In the carbon cycle?

$100 Answer from Carbon Cycle Allow carbon to enter an Ecosystem through photosynthesis

$200 Question from Carbon Cycle What is a carbon sink?

$200 Answer from Carbon Cycle A reservoir that absorbs Carbon—i.e. grasses, ocean

$300 Question from Carbon Cycle What is a carbon sink but NOT a part of the carbon Cycle?

$300 Answer from Carbon Cycle Carbon found in rocks

$400 Question from Carbon Cycle What is the largest carbon Reservoir on Earth?

$400 Answer from Carbon Cycle Atlantic Ocean

$500 Question from Carbon Cycle True/False Overgrazing of grasslands Has reduced the amount of C02 in the atmosphere

$500 Answer from Carbon Cycle False—overgrazing can lead To an increase of CO2 since the Grasses are not present to Absorb it.

$100 Question from Misc Are nitrites or nitrates more Damaging to groundwater Resources?

$100 Answer from Misc Nitrates---they pollute ground Water and create algae blooms On surface water

$200 Question from Misc Name the two ways Nitrogen is “fixed”

$200 Answer from Misc Lightning and nitrogen fixing Bacteria on plant roots

$300 Question from Misc What type of succession Occurs after a natural process Such as a volcanic eruption?

$300 Answer from Misc Primary succession—due to New “land” being produced

$400 Question from Misc What is the “hidden” part of The phosphorous cycle?

$400 Answer from Misc Geologic uplifting to expose The phosphorous

$500 Question from Misc Name the two types of weathering

$500 Answer from Misc Physical -- erosion Chemical -- acidification

Final Jeopardy Name four types of cycles involving elements.

Final Jeopardy Answer Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon, Phosphorous