1. ECOLOGY & SUSTAINABILITY
JEOPARDY
ECOLOGY & SUSTAINABILITY

2. Sustainability
Food Webs
Ecosystems
Interactions
Population Growth
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3. What is SUSTAINABILITY?
Sustainability for 100
Using resources in a manner that allows them to be available for future generations
What is SUSTAINABILITY?

4. Sustainability for 200
Energy consumption; CO2 emissions; protected areas
What are examples of ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS?

5. Sustainability for 300
Giving up something beneficial in order to gain something more desirable
What is a TRADE-OFF?

6. Sustainability for 400 Increase in nutrients leads to algal blooms
What is EUTROPHICATION?

7. Sustainability for 500 Burning of fossil fuels & deforestation
What factors increase effect of GLOBAL WARMING?

8. This happens to energy as it moves through the food web
Food Web for 100
This happens to energy as it moves through the food web
What is DECREASE?

9. Food Web for 200 Receives the most amount of energy
What is the PLANTS/BOTTOM OF PYRAMID?

10. can be both primary consumer & secondary consumer
Food Web for 300
can be both primary consumer & secondary consumer
What is an OMNIVORE?

11. Food Web for 400
How the spiders will be affected if the owls were removed
What is their POPULATION WILL INCREASE?

12. Food Web for 500
As energy moves through the food web, there is only about 10% available energy for next trophic level…most is lost as…
What is HEAT?

13. What are ABIOTIC FACTORS?
Ecosystems for 100
Sunlight, food, soil pH
What are ABIOTIC FACTORS?

14. Gray squirrels in a forest
Category 3 for 200
Gray squirrels in a forest
What is a POPULATION?

15. Ecosystems for 300 Organisms that make their own food
What is an AUTOTROPH/CONSUMER?

16. Ecosystems for 400
Plants & animals interacting with one another & their abiotic environment
What is an ECOSYSTEM?

17. Vultures, hyenas, raccoons
Ecosystems for 500
Vultures, hyenas, raccoons
What are SCAVENGERS?

18. Both organisms benefit in a relationship
Interactions for 100
Both organisms benefit in a relationship
What is MUTUALISM?

19. What is a PREDATOR/PREY relationship?
Interactions for 200
Lynx & rabbit
What is a PREDATOR/PREY relationship?

20. Interactions for 300
Close association between 2 different species where at least one species benefits
What is SYMBIOSIS?

21. What is an INVASIVE SPECIES?
Interactions for 400
A species has been introduced to control a pest population…due to adaptability, the introduced species thrives in the ecosystem and in addition to eating the pest species…also feeds on several other beneficial species
What is an INVASIVE SPECIES?

22. Interactions for 500 Increases competition within an ecosystem
What are LIMITING FACTORS?

23. What is LOGISTIC (S)/carrying capacity graph?
Population Growth for 100
Click and type answer
What is LOGISTIC (S)/carrying capacity graph?

24. Population Growth for 200
Population decline is inevitable when a population exceeds
What is CARRYING CAPACITY?

25. Population Growth for 300 Disease, predators, competition
What is DENSITY- DEPENDENT LIMITING FACTORS?

26. Population Growth for 400 This describes the growth of Mexico…
What is GROWING RAPIDLY?

27. What this graph illustrates…
Population Growth for 500
What this graph illustrates…
What is predator-prey relationship? What is regulation of population size?

28. DAILY DOUBLE

29. FINAL JEOPARDY What are DENSITY INDEPENDENT LIMITING FACTORS?
Frost wipes out 50% of orange crop in Florida
Hurricane Fran destroys 10,000 acres of forest
Wake County clears 100 acres of land to build a new high school
What are DENSITY INDEPENDENT LIMITING FACTORS?