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Ecology Jeopardy Organization of Life Symbiotic Relationships Ecology Extras Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy Energy Transfer Trophic Levels

$100 Question from Organization of Life What is the lowest level of environmental organization that three male egrets would all belong in together?

$100 Answer from Organization of Life What is a population?

$200 Question from Organization of Life What word describes a community of organisms and their environment?

$200 Answer from Organization of Life What is ecosystem?

$300 Question from Organization of Life The part of Earth where life exists.

$300 Answer from Organization of Life What is the biosphere?

$400 Question from Organization of Life A __________ is several species of animals interacting, while a population is members of one species in an area.

$400 Answer from Organization of Life What is a community?

$500 Question from Organization of Life The five levels of organization in the environment, from first to fifth level, are….

$500 Answer from Organization of Life What is …. Organism, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere?

$100 Question from Energy Transfer A food web shows energy connections better than a food _______.

$100 Answer from Energy Transfer What is chain?

$200 Question from Energy Transfer Living things that make their own food from sunlight are ________.

$200 Answer from Energy Transfer What are producers (or autotrophs)?

$300 Question from Energy Transfer A triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s loss of energy.

$300 Answer from Energy Transfer What is an energy pyramid?

$400 Question from Energy Transfer A simple diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one rganism to another.

$400 Answer from Energy Transfer What is a food chain?

$500 Question from Energy Transfer In a food web, arrows point in just one direction because they show how energy goes to the animal….. ….that is eating OR that is eaten?

$500 Answer from Energy Transfer What is the animal THAT IS EATING?

$100 Question from Trophic Levels An organism that eats only plants.

$100 Answer from Trophic Levels What is an herbivore?

$200 Question from Trophic Levels An organism that eats both plants and animals.

$200 Answer from Trophic Levels What is an omnivore?

$300 Question from Trophic Levels A spider that feeds on live insects is an example of a(n)…

$300 Answer from Trophic Levels What is predator (also…consumer/carnivore)?

$400 Question from Trophic Levels An organism that breaks down organic matter, recycling nutrients back into the environment, e.g., bacteria and fungi.

$400 Answer from Trophic Levels What are decomposers?

$500 Question from Trophic Levels What word describes ALL the living organisms found at each of the ecological trophic levels?

$500 Answer from Trophic Levels What is biotic?

$100 Question from Symbiotic Relationships Young wasps are eating the tomato hornworm that is their host. this is an example of_________.

$100 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships What is parasitism?

$200 Question from Symbiotic Relationships Two members of the same species fight over how gets a certain food. Members of different species try to take over a certain nesting area. These are both examples of ____.

$200 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships What is competition?

$300 Question from Symbiotic Relationships In this type of symbiosis, organisms help each other.

$300 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships What is mutualism?

$400 Question from Symbiotic Relationships When a long-term change takes place in two species because of their close interactions with one another, the change is called __________.

$400 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships What is coevolution?

$500 Question from Symbiotic Relationships A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.

$500 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships What is commensalism?

$100 Question from Ecology Extras The study of interactions between living things and their environment is ______________.

$100 Answer from Ecology Extras What is ecology?

$200 Question from Ecology Extras An environmental study reporting on the way temperature, water quality, and minerals affect the animals in a salt marsh would be considering this level of organization.

$200 Answer from Ecology Extras What is ecosystem?

$300 Question from Ecology Extras Rocks, temperature, and water are what part of the environment?

$300 Answer from Ecology Extras What is abiotic?

$400 Question from Ecology Extras The term used to describe a sparrow that has been caught by an eagle.

$400 Answer from Ecology Extras What is prey?

$500 Question from Ecology Extras The organisms that feed on dead Organisms are specifically called ___________. A subcategory of This group includes the decomposers.

$500 Answer from Ecology Extras What are detritivores?

Final Jeopardy - Subject Interactions with the Environment Question

Final Jeopardy Question The largest population that an environment can support without doing irrevocable damage to the environment is called the ___________. Answer

Final Jeopardy Answer What is carrying capacity?