1. 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 Ecosystem mania What does it all mean? Eat yogurt, Get cultured Why is the Mushroom Asked to the party? Because he’s A fun guy!

2. The following ___________ factors are characteristics of an ecosystem

3. Abotic Factors

4. It is the environment in which an organism lives or the physical surroundings of a species population”

5. Habitat

6. In terms of the food chain, organisms that feed on plants would best be classified as:

7. Primary Consumers or herbivores

8. The following is an example of one.

9. Food Chain

10. Each level of the pyramid is known as this and the hawk would best be classified as this type of consumer.

11. Trophic levels Tertiary Consumer

12. True or False – Wildfires are not useful in the life of the forest

13. False

14. What is the key difference between punctuated equilibrium and gradualism?

15. Rate of change

16. The process of converting nitrogen gas into ammonia

17. Nitrogen fixation

18. Draw an S-curve and a J-curve

20. Make up your own question. (you must know the answer and it can’t be one we already did in this game) Each group will ask one group in the class. (wait for the teacher to say when) Each group who gets the question correct gets a point.

21. Answers and questions will vary

22. Theory that states changes to organisms in a population can occur in rapid spurts followed by long periods of little change

23. Punctuated equilibrium

24. The technical name for the population change shown in part A of the graph.

25. Explosion / Exponential Groth

26. The number of individuals in a population that can be sustained for an indefinite period of time.

27. Carrying capacity.

28. Sketch what the graph of worldwide human population growth would look like.

30. Darwin studied these finches found where in the world?

31. Galapagos islands

32. Darwin hypothesized that the finches evolved over time to have different beaks for what specific purpose?

33. Different food sources

34. The following statements make up what? - Organisms usually produce more offspring than can survive - There is a variation among individuals with respect to any trait in a population - Organisms within a population compete for limited resources

35. Theory of Natural Selection, survival of the fittest or theory of evolution

36. Give an example of commensalism.

37. Examples will vary but show one benefiting and one not affected.

38. Which cycle is shown below?

39. Water cycle

40. Which process is represented by the equation below? light + 6CO 2 + 12H 2 0 --> C 6 H 12 O 6 + 6O 2 + 6H 2 0

41. photosynthesis

42. The following diagram shows which biogeochemical cycle?

43. Carbon cycle

44. According to the graph below, how much energy is transferred up the trophic level by percentage?

45. 10%

46. Excess run-off of fertilizer nutrients like phosphorus, can cause the harmful event shown below:

47. Algal bloom or algae bloom

48. For the period from 1960-1966, the population underwent a

49. Population crash.

50. An open population takes these 4 factors into consideration

51. Births, deaths, immigration and emigration

52. DAILY DOUBLE!

53. FINAL JEOPARDY!

54. Summarize the steps in evolution.

55. Mutation  Variation  Adaptation, Don’t die Reproduce, Increase in trait or new species over time.