JEOPARDY Science FINAL JEOPARDY
10 All the living and nonliving things that interact in a particular area
1a What is an ecosystem
20 The place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs
2a What is habitat
30 Needs of an organism are met by its habitat
3a What are food, water, and shelter
40 The living parts of an ecosystem
4a What are biotic factors
50 The nonliving parts of an ecosystem
5a What are abiotic factors
10 A group of organisms that are physically similar and can reproduce with one another to produce fertile offspring
1a What is a species
20 In addition to communities, an ecosystem also includes this
2a What is abiotic factors
30 The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment
3a What is ecology
40 The major way that new individuals are added to a population
4a What is being born
50 Leaving a population
5a What is emigration
10 Prevents a population from increasing in size
1a What is a limiting factor
20 Largest population that an environment can support
2a What is carrying capacity
30 An organism’s particular role in it’s environment
3a What is niche
40 An interaction in which one organism hunts and kills another for food
4a What is predation
50 The organism that hunts and kills another for food
5a What is predator
10 A type of relationship where both partners benefit
1a What is mutualism
20 One species benefits; the other is neither helped nor harmed
2a What is commensalism
30 Sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water are needed to carry out this process
3a What is photosynthesis
40 A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species
4a What is symbiosis
50 The struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
5a What is competition
10 Counting the number of organisms in a small area and multiplying to find the number in a larger area
10A What is sampling
20 The number of individuals of a population in a specific area
2a What is population density
30 The three types of symbiotic relationships
3a What are mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism
40 The smallest unit of ecological organization
4a What is an organsim
50 An organism’s habitat must provide these
5a What are food, water, and shelter
10 A flea living on a cat
10a What is parasitism
20 Gray wolves living in a forest is an example of this
20a What is a population
30 A shark’s powerful jaws is an example of this
30a What is predator adaptation
40 An early winter frost that prevents further growth in a garden is an example of this
40a What is limiting factor
50 Organism that is harmed in parasitism
50a What is host
FINALJEOPARDY The levels of organization in an ecosystem from smallest to largest
FINAL ANSWER Organism Population Community Ecosystem