Ecology Jeopardy Ch 5 and 6
Populations Grab bag Habitat/Niche Interactions In Communities Environmental Issues
Category 1 for 1 Question: The number of individuals of one species that a certain area can support is known as the _______ ____________. Check Your Answer
Category 1 for 1 Answer: carrying capacity Back to the Game Board
Category 1 for 2 Question: Name two factors that make a population increase. Check Your Answer
Category 1 for 2 Answer: births and immigration Back to the Game Board
Category 1 for 3 Question: Which of the following are density-independent factors? a) a wildfire b) a heat wave c) a contagious disease d) food Check Your Answer
Category 1 for 3 Answer: wildfire and heat wave (choices a and b) Back to the Game Board
Category 1 for 4 Question: What are the two shapes of population graphs we studied in this unit? What is the name for each? Check Your Answer
Category 1 for 4 Back to the Game Board Answer: J (exponential) and S (logistic)
Category 1 for 5 Check Your Answer Name two ways that technology has contributed to the human population growing exponentially.
Category 1 for 5 Answer: improvements in medicine such as vaccines and antibiotics, and gas-powered farm equipment Back to the Game Board
Category 2 for 1 Question: What are two of the major greenhouse gases? Check Your Answer
Category 2 for 1 Answer: carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor Back to the Game Board
Daily Double for 4! Question: In the formation of acid rain, ______ is burned, releasing _________, which forms sulfuric acid in the atmosphere. Check Your Answer
Category 2 for 4 Answer: coal is burned, sulfur is released Back to the Game Board
Category 2 for 3 Question: Name an indicator species. Why is it considered an indicator species? Check Your Answer
Category 2 for 3 Answer: frogs, because their thin skin absorbs water (and pollutants) Back to the Game Board
Daily double for 8! Question: What are the two major components of smog? Check Your Answer
Category 2 for 8 Answer: ground level ozone and particulates Back to the Game Board
Category 2 for 5 Question: What is the name for the process by which toxic substances become more concentrated in organisms higher on the food chain? Check Your Answer
Category 2 for 5 Answer: biomagnification Back to the Game Board
Category 3 for 1 Check Your Answer Question: Give an example of interspecific competition in the prairie.
Category 3 for 1 Answer: a ferret and a coyote competing for prairie dogs. Back to the Game Board
Category 3 for 2 Question: The relationship between a honeybee and a flower is best described as: Check Your Answer
Category 3 for 2 Answer: Mutualism Back to the Game Board
Daily Double for 6! Question: Name the relationships shown by the following: Check Your Answer
Category 3 for 6 Answer: + + = Mutualism + - = Parasitism or Predation + 0 = Commensalism Back to the Game Board
Category 3 for 4 Question: How do toxins in milkweed plants benefit monarch butterflies? Check Your Answer
Category 3 for 4 Answer: They make the butterflies distasteful to birds. Back to the Game Board
Category 3 for 5 Check Your Answer Question: A black rhinoceros grazes on the African plains. As it forages, the rhino disturbs multitudes of insects in the grass. Birds known as egrets forage on the ground near the rhino, eating insects flushed out by the hooves. Name 2 different types of interactions in this example.
Category 3 for 5 Answer: Predation = rhino and grasses, birds and insects. Commensalism = birds and rhino Back to the Game Board
Category 4 for 1 Check Your Answer Q: Earthworms aerate the soil by tunneling through it. They also enrich soil by adding their waste. They are efficient decomposers. This best describes the earthworm’s: a)Habitat b)Niche c)Footprint d)Limiting factors
Category 4 for 1 Answer: (b) niche Back to the Game Board
Category 4 for 2 Question: Name 2 differences between predators and parasites. Check Your Answer
Category 4 for 2 Answer: Predators are larger, and kill their prey. Parasites are small, and usually don’t kill their prey. Back to the Game Board
Daily Double for 6 Question: The colored areas are showing the _____ niche. Check Your Answer
Daily double for 6 Answer: realized niche Back to the Game Board
Category 4 for 4 Question: Which species has the larger fundamental niche? (a) A (b) B (c) The same Check Your Answer
Category 4 for 4 Answer: a) B Back to the Game Board
Category 4 for 5 Question: The blue, larger paramecium is outcompeted. This is called ______ _______ Check Your Answer
Category 4 for 5 Answer: competitive exclusion Back to the Game Board
Category 5 for 1 Question: Name 2 non-renewable resources. Check Your Answer
Category 5 for 1 Answer: coal and oil Back to the Game Board
Category 5 for 2 Question: Name 2 invasive (or introduced) species. Check Your Answer
Category 5 for 2 Answer: Zebra mussels in the Great Lakes, kudzu in the South, rabbits in Australia, pythons in the Everglades, mice in Australia Back to the Game Board
Category 5 for 3 Question: Which are populations? (a) All the animals in a zoo (b) All the dogs in an animal shelter (c) All the mosquitoes around a lake (d) Both b and c (e) a, b, and c Check Your Answer
Category 5 for 3 Answer: (d) both b and c Back to the Game Board
Category 5 for 4 Question: What are four ways you could decrease your ecological footprint? Check Your Answer
Category 5 for 4 Answer: carpool or public transportation, conserve energy around the home, eat foods produced locally, recycle more/produce less trash Back to the Game
Category 5 for 5 Question: What is the pH of normal rain? Check Your Answer
Category 5 for 5 Answer: around 5.6 Back to the Game Board