1. Ecology Jeopardy What is it? Vocab 1 Vocab 2 Vocab 3 It’s a Mystery
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2. What is it? - $100 Is this a producer, consumer or decomposer and WHY?
- toad
Consumer because it eats producers and other consumers.

3. What is it? - $200 Is this a producer, consumer or decomposer and WHY?
- grass
Producer because it makes it’s own food

4. What is it? - $300 Is this a producer, consumer or decomposer and WHY?
- beetle
Decomposer because it breaks down dead animals and plants and returns nutrients to the earth.

5. What is it? - $400 Is this a producer, consumer or decomposer and WHY?
- vulture
Consumer because it eats producers and consumers (it eats dead animals so it’s considered a scavenger as well)

6. What is it? - $500 Is this a producer, consumer or decomposer and WHY?
- bacteria
Decomposer because it breaks down dead animals and plants and returns nutrients to the earth.

7. VOCAB 1- $100 I am an animal’s home within an ecosystem. What am I?
HABITAT

8. VOCAB 1 - $200
I am made up of different types of habitats, and may be a swamp, a forest, a savanna, or another type. What am I?
ECOSYSTEM

9. VOCAB 1- $300 I am a series of overlapping food chains. What am I?
FOOD WEB

10. VOCAB 1 - $400
I am used to speed the growth of crops, but can leach into soil and pollute groundwater. What am I?
FERTILIZER

11. VOCAB 1 - $500
I am used to organize information and demonstrate how energy flows from one organism to another. What am I?
ENERGY PYRAMID

12. VOCAB 2 - $100
I am the study of living households. What am I?
ECOLOGY

13. VOCAB 2 - $200
I am the lowest trophic tier of the energy pyramid. What am I?
Plants/Producers

14. VOCAB 2 - $300
I receive the least amount of energy and use the most and I’m at the top of the energy pyramid. What am I?
Carnivore

15. VOCAB 2 - $400
I am the process by which the sun’s energy changes water and carbon dioxide into food. What am I?
photosynthesis

16. VOCAB 2 - $500
Sometimes I become upset, or disrupted, because the changes in the Earth’s cycles affect the balance in a habitat or ecosystem. What am I?
EQUILLIBRIUM

17. VOCAB 3 - $100
I can be a natural disaster in which a body of water rises and overflows beyond its usual limits.
FLOOD

18. VOCAB 3 - $200
I am the word for the invention of useful things or solving problems using science and engineering. What am I?
TECHNOLOGY

19. VOCAB 3 - $300
I am the word that describes animals that are hunted by other animals for food.
PREY

20. VOCAB 3 - $400 Fill in the blank:
In order to ___________ the environment, we must keep it safe from harm.
PROTECT

21. VOCAB 3 - $500
I am the word that means the maintenance of populations in the proper amounts and conditions in nature.
BALANCE

22. MYSTERY ?- $100
List 3 reasons why certain living things exist in certain habitats (so they don’t have to move or migrate).
Food, Shelter, Space, Oxygen, Water

23. Mystery ? - $200
Tell me how the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion effected people, the water and the fish near the rig.
People died
The water was heavily polluted
The fish were threatened

24. MYSTERY ? - $300
List one way humans have changed an ecosystem. Explain how this effects that ecosystem.
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25. Mystery ? - $400 Explain what each of these words means: Reduce Reuse
Recycle
REDUCE: cut back on the amount of “stuff” we use
REUSE: use things again instead of throwing them away
RECYCLE: process old things so they can be used again to make new things.

26. Mystery ? - $500
Give an example of a natural disaster and explain what changes it can cause to an ecosystem.
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