1. Chapter 3-5 – Ecology $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $100 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Food Webs & Chains Nutrient Cycles Ecological Relationships What Limits Populations Population Stats FINAL ROUND

2. Food Webs & Chains: $100 Question List two examples of primary producers BACK TO GAME ANSWER

3. Food Webs & Chains: $100 Answer Flowering plants, shrubs, grasses, algae, etc. BACK TO GAME

4. Food Webs & Chains: $200 Question Carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores are all examples of _____. BACK TO GAME ANSWER

5. Food Webs & Chains: $200 Answer Consumers/Heterotrophs BACK TO GAME

6. Food Webs & Chains: $300 Question Fungus and bacteria are examples of _____. BACK TO GAME ANSWER

7. Food Webs & Chains: $300 Answer Decomposers BACK TO GAME

8. Food Webs & Chains: $400 Question As you go up an ecological pyramid, what happens to the energy? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

9. Food Webs & Chains: $400 Answer It decreases BACK TO GAME

10. Food Webs & Chains: $500 Question List two of the three types of ecological pyramids. BACK TO GAME ANSWER

11. Food Webs & Chains: $500 Answer Pyramids of biomass, energy and numbers BACK TO GAME

12. Nutrient Cycles: $100 Question In which nutrient cycle are nutrient returned to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

13. Nutrient Cycles: $100 Answer Carbon cycle BACK TO GAME

14. Nutrient Cycles: $200 Question Which nutrient cycle is associated with climate change? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

15. Nutrient Cycles: $200 Answer Carbon cycle BACK TO GAME

16. Nutrient Cycles: $300 Question Precipitation, condensation, and transpiration are all a part of what nutrient cycle? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

17. Nutrient Cycles: $300 Answer Water cycle BACK TO GAME

18. Nutrient Cycles: $400 Question Bacteria capture nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it to a form that plants can use. What is this called? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

19. Nutrient Cycles: $400 Answer Nitrogen fixation BACK TO GAME

20. Nutrient Cycles: $500 Question In which nutrient cycle does animal waste and fertilizers return nutrients to the soil? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

21. Nutrient Cycles: $500 Answer Nitrogen cycle BACK TO GAME

22. Ecological Relationships: $100 Question Where do producers get their energy? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

23. Ecological Relationships: $100 Answer Sun BACK TO GAME

24. Ecological Relationships: $200 Question A food web shows the flow of what? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

25. Ecological Relationships: $200 Answer Energy BACK TO GAME

26. Ecological Relationships: $300 Question A barnacle hitching a ride on a whale without hurting the whale is what kind of symbiotic relationship? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

27. Ecological Relationships: $300 Answer Commensalism BACK TO GAME

28. Ecological Relationships: $400 Question Give an example of a mutualistic relationship. BACK TO GAME ANSWER

29. Ecological Relationships: $400 Answer Insects & flowers, shark and teeth- cleaning fish, E. coli and people, etc. BACK TO GAME

30. Ecological Relationships: $500 Question What is a parasitic relationship? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

31. Ecological Relationships: $500 Answer When one organism is harmed while another benefits. BACK TO GAME

32. What Limits Populations: $100 Question List two density-dependant limiting factors. BACK TO GAME ANSWER

33. What Limits Populations: $100 Answer Competition, disease, crowding & stress, parasites, and predator/prey. BACK TO GAME

34. What Limits Populations: $200 Question List two density-independent limiting factors. BACK TO GAME ANSWER

35. What Limits Populations: $200 Answer Natural disasters, weather, human activities BACK TO GAME

36. What Limits Populations: $300 Question List two things that limited human populations at the beginning of their existence. BACK TO GAME ANSWER

37. What Limits Populations: $300 Answer Lack of food, disease, and predators. BACK TO GAME

38. What Limits Populations: $400 Question Suppose a plant gets plenty of sunlight, but still doesn’t grow. What could be causing this? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

39. What Limits Populations: $400 Answer Lack of soil nutrients, water, or CO 2. BACK TO GAME

40. What Limits Populations: $500 Question What type of limiting factor do you think a terrorist attack might be? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

41. What Limits Populations: $500 Answer Density-dependant limiting factor BACK TO GAME

42. Population Stats: $100 Question What type of population growth occurs in ideal conditions? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

43. Population Stats: $100 Answer Exponential growth BACK TO GAME

44. Population Stats: $200 Question What kind of population growth do seasonal organisms and predators and prey have? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

45. Population Stats: $200 Answer Boom and bust BACK TO GAME

46. Population Stats: $300 Question What kind of population growth curve do humans have? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

47. Population Stats: $300 Answer Exponential BACK TO GAME

48. Population Stats: $400 Question If the birth rate of a city was 15 births/hour and the death rate was 9 deaths/hour, what is the growth rate? Is the population increasing, decreasing or staying the same? BACK TO GAME ANSWER

49. Population Stats: $400 Answer 6; increasing BACK TO GAME

50. Population Stats: $500 Question List two things that helped the human population to grow. BACK TO GAME ANSWER

51. Population Stats: $500 Answer Agriculture, industry, medicine, etc. BACK TO GAME

52. FINAL ROUND Question Draw a food web of at least 6 organisms that are properly labeled and that have the arrows going in the right direction BACK TO GAME ANSWER