Ecology Review

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Answer Which of the following is abiotic and why? fish, turtle, dirt, or flower

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy dirt – because it is not living

What are all the different populations that live in the same habitat and interact with each other called? Answer

Communities Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy

Answer What do you call a group of living things that are the same species in a specific area?

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyPopulation

Answer All of the biotic and abiotic factors in a community is called an ___________.

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyEcosystem

Answer What is the study of the interaction of living things with one another and their environment?

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyEcology

What are organisms that make their own food from sunlight called? Answer

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyProducers

Answer What do you call an organism that eats only animals?

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyCarnivore

Answer What do you call an organism that eats only plants?

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyHerbivore

Answer What do you call an organism that eats both plants and animals?

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyOmnivore

Answer What type of organism breaks down (eats) dead things and recycles them back into the Earth?

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyDecomposer

Answer What is a diagram that shows how energy flows from one organism to another?

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy Food Chain

Answer What do you call the diagram that shows all the feeding relationships between living things in an ecosystem?

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy Food Web

Answer What is the triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s loss of energy?

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy Energy Pyramid

Answer What type of organisms are located at the base of the energy pyramid?

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy Plants on land, bacteria in the deep ocean (producers)

Answer What type of consumer is located at the top of the energy pyramid?

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy 3 rd level consumers Coyote, human, shark, etc.

Answer The type of consumer that eats dead things.

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyScavenger

Answer What is the term used to describe a sparrow that has been caught and eaten by an eagle?

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyPrey

Answer What do you call an organism that catches and eats other animals?

Back to Jeopardy Back to JeopardyPredator

Answer What happens to the population of a predator when their prey populations go down?

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy The predator population goes down too.

Answer Name two factors that affected the Kaibab deer population in the early 1900’s.

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy group decision

Answer What is one abiotic object in the classroom?

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy group decision

Answer The amount of food, water, space, shelter, etc. that are needed for life are found in limited amounts are called ___________.

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy Limiting Factors

Answer What is the largest population an environment can support?

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy Carrying Capacity

Answer In which biome is 50% or more of all Earth’s species?

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy The Rain forest

Answer What is a biome?

Back to Jeopardy Back to Jeopardy A large geographic community of plants and animals with similar life forms and environmental conditions.