1. 3/19 Daily Catalyst Pg. 33 Connections
1. In the desert, in the third trophic level there are 56.2 kcals. How many kcals are in the producer level?
2. What is the impact of losing all bacteria?
3. How does deforestation effect the carbon cycle?
4. Relate and carbon and nitrogen cycle to one another.
5. Which of the letters represents the birth rate exceeding the death rate?

2. 3/19 Daily Catalyst Pg. 33 Connections
Ecology test is TOMORROW
Study guide due
Notebook check on Friday
200 class points must be earned by Friday

3. 3/19 Daily Catalyst Pg. 33 Connections
Class Business
Rally coach
Study guide work time
Review game

4. Rally Coach Rally Coach: Step 1: Pick a partner
Step 2: One person is partner A and the other person is partner B
Step 3: You can only have one pencil for the pair!
Step 4: Partner A will only answer one question in column A then partner B will answer one question in column B
Step 5: Keep trading the paper back the forth between partner A and B until both sides are answered

5. Study Guide
Directions: With your partner, complete the study guide. Your study guide is due tomorrow. …
Time: 15 minutes
Noise: 1 (with partner)

6. Review Game Jeopardy
Divide into teams of 5, please only 5 members on each team.
Each team will get a whiteboard and a marker.
Every team will only send up one member from the team at a time
I will ask the question. When I say go, answer the question on your whiteboard. When I say show, show your whiteboard.
If you have the right answer, your team gets the points.

7. Ecology Jeopardy Final Jeopardy Review Organismal Ecology Population
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8. 1 - $100 What is the correct way to write a hypothesis?
In a the “If…then” format

9. 1 - $200 What are the 6 steps to the scientific method?
Observation, question, hypothesis, experiment, data, and conclusion.

10. 1 - $300 Identify the independent variable in the graph:
Time is the manipulated (independent) variable

11. 1 - $400 Give an example of parasitism in the human body or in nature.
In the human body: mosquitoes biting a human
In nature: bear eating a fish

12. 1 - $500 Give an example of a control variable:
The control variable stays the same or is constant in an experiment. The plant that does not receive the special soil or the group that does not receive the medication.

13. 2 - $100 What two factors does an ecosystem include?
Abiotic and biotic

14. 2 - $200
What are the levels of organization from most inclusive to least inclusive: should have six
Biosphere, biome, ecosystem, community, population, and organism

15. 2 - $300 Describe the temperate grassland biome:
Region of the Midwest U.S., harsh winters and hot, dry summers. Large grazing animals live here. Area is resistant to fires and plagued by droughts.

16. 2 - $400
Which of the following biomes is a frozen desert?
Tundra

17. 2 - $500 What is the effect of deforestation?
The loss of anchors (trees and plants) will allow the soil to wash away into collection sites. The trees are the home of plants and animals and will be destroyed. Lack of oxygen and CO2 being removed from the atmosphere.

18. 3 - $100 What is the most common type of dispersion? Why? Clumped
Protect, mating, hunting, and social behaviors

19. 3 - $200
If a population is distributed randomly, what does this suggest about the environment?
The resources must be spread uniformly as well, allowing populations to spread anywhere and STILL receive adequate resources.

20. 3 - $300
True or false, a populations carrying capacity can never by exceeded since this means there are not enough resources.
False, a population can exceed its carrying capacity, but the population will not be stable or maintain itself because there are not enough resources.

21. 3 - $400 When will a population stop growing?
The population will stop growing when it reaches carrying capacity because this is where it is stable and has enough resources.

22. 3 - $500
A new population that has recovered from a disturbance will grow in a s-curve or a j-curve?
The population will grow in a J-curve because the population has recently recovered from a disturbance like a fire or flood and the population is quickly reproducing.

23. 4 - $100 Define and give an example of a community.
A community is multiple species that interact in the same area. An example is lions, zebras, and brush in a savanna biome.

24. 4 - $200
In an ecosystem, the Spanish moss lives on the Oak trees. The tree is neither harmed nor benefitted from this living arrangement. This is an example of what type of relationship?
Commensalism because neither part are benefitted or harmed.

25. 4 - $300
Explain the 10% rule:
Only 10% of energy is passed on from one trophic level to the next. The rest of the energy is given off as heat.

26. 4 - $400 Give an example of gravitropism?
The plant roots growing towards the center of the earth due to gravity and the flower of the plants growing towards the sun.

27. 4 - $500
Observations of an ecosystem in Louisiana show that organisms in the second trophic level have an energy intake of 5,678 kilocalories. What is energy intake for the fourth trophic level of the same ecosystem?
The energy will be kcals due to the 10% rule.

28. 5 - $100 Define global warming:
The gradual increase in the globes average temperature.

29. 5 - $200
Draw a graph where the birth rate is greater than the death rate then eventually reaches carrying capacity:

30. 5 - $300 What are the causes of global warming?
Global warming is caused by pollution, deforestation, not recycling and the burning of fossil fuels.

31. 5 - $400
What are the 4 limiting factors and how do they influence the size of a population?
The limiting factors are food, water, space, and competition. The lack of food and water will cause a population to decrease and less competition will allow the population to increase.

32. 5 - $500 What is the difference between evaporation and transpiration?
Transpiration is evaporation from plant leaves and evaporation is liquid water to gas from a body of water.

33. Final Jeopardy What are the 6 characteristics of plants:
Metabolism, reproduction, growth, organization, response, and evolution.

34. Final Jeopardy
Compare and contrast tropical rain forest and the desert.
Tropical rain forest is warm, humid, very biodiverse and receives a lot of rain.
Desert is dry, bare and lacks oxygen (lack of trees).
Both include biotic and abiotic resources and can support life. Both are biomes.