1. Biology
Ecology Jeopardy

2. Levels of Organization
Food Web and Pyramids
Levels of Organization
Succession
Food Chain
Cycles/
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3. Levels of Organization for 100
Question: The branch of biology dealing with interaction among organisms and between organisms and their environment is?
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4. Levels of Organization for 100
Answer: Ecology
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5. Levels of Organization for 200
Question: One species that lives in a certain area is called?
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6. Levels of Organization for 200
Answer: Population
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7. Levels of Organization for 300
Question: The combined portions of Earth in which all living things exist?
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8. Levels of Organization for 300
Answer: Biosphere
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9. Levels of Organization for 400
Question: What is an ecosystem? (answer must have two vocab words included)
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10. Levels of Organization for 400
Answer: All the biotic and abiotic factors of an environment.
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11. Levels of Organization for 500
Question: List the levels of organization in order from smallest to biggest
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12. Levels of Organization for 500
Answer: Organism, Populations, Communities, Ecosystems, Biomes, and Biosphere
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13. Succession for 100
Question: In what type of succession in a forest is grass going to be the pioneer species?
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14. Succession for 100
Answer: Secondary Succession
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15. Graphing for 200
Question: What is succession?
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16. Graphing for 200
Answer: changes that occur in an ecosystem or community
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17. Succession for 300
Question: What is the difference in primary and secondary succession?
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18. Succession for 300
Answer: Primary succession happens on exposed surfaces (No Soil) and Secondary succession happens on soil.
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19. Succession for 400
Question: List one reason why primary succession and one reason why secondary succession would occur.
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20. Succession for 400
Answer: Primary Succession: Volcanic Eruption, Glaciers melting
Secondary Succession: Fires, Clearing Land for growing, grazing etc.
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21. Succession for 500 Check Your Answer What is the pioneer species?
What is the climax community?
What type of succession is this?
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22. Succession for 500 Answer: 1. Pioneer Species Lichen and Moss
2.Climax Community-Forests
3. Primary Succession
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23. Food Chain for 100
Question: Organisms that cannot produce their own food are called? (Use both names)
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24. Food Chain for 100 Answer: Heterotrophs and Consumers
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25. Food Chain for 200
Question: What do we call organisms who produce their own food and from where do they get their energy?
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26. Food Chain for 200 Answer: Producers and Autotrophs The Sun
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27. Food Chain for 300
Question: If a rabbit eats grass and the rabbit is eaten by a fox. What is the fox’s trophic level in the food chain?
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28. Food Chain for 300
Answer: Secondary Consumer
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29. Food Chain for 400 Check Your Answer Question:
What is the producer in the food chain?
What is the secondary consumer?
What is the primary consumer?
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30. Food Chain for 400 Answer: Producer= Leaves Secondary Consumer=Frog
Primary Consumer= Slug
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31. Food Chain for 500 Briefly define the following food chain terms
Herbivore Carnivore
Omnivore Decomposer
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32. Food Chain for 500 Back to Game Board
Herbivore- consumer that eats only plants Omnivore- consumer that eats both plants and animals
Carnivore- consumer that eats only meat
Decomposer- consumer feeds and breaks down dead plants and animals
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33. Food Webs and Pyramids for 100
Question: All the interconnected feeding relationships in an ecosystem make up a ________.
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34. Food Webs and Pyramids for 100
Answer: Food Web
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35. Food Webs and Pyramids for 200
Question: What type of pyramid shows the available living tissue at each trophic level?
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36. Food Webs and Pyramids for 200
Answer: Biomass Pyramids
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37. Food Webs and Pyramids for 300
Question: What happens to energy as it goes from the bottom to the top of the pyramid?
What happens to biomass as it goes from the bottom to the top of the pyramid?
What happens to the numbers of organisms as it goes from the bottom to the top of the pyramid?(General Trends)
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38. Food Webs and Pyramids for 300
Answer: They all decrease as you go from producers to each level of consumers.
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39. Food Webs and Pyramids for 400
Question:
List all the primary consumers
List all the secondary consumers
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40. Food Webs and Pyramids for 400
Answer: Primary Consumers: Rabbits, Squirrels, Mice, Seed eating Birds, herbivorous insects
Secondary Consumers: Foxes, Hawks and Owls, Snakes Spiders, insectivorous birds, and predacious insects
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41. Food Web and Pyramids for 500
Question: Which trophic level has the most energy?
What percentage of energy moves on to the next trophic level?
What happens to the the energy that is not used for life processes or passed to the next level?
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42. Food Web and Pyramids for 500
Answer: Producer
10%
Lost as heat
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43. Cycles/Random
for 100
Question: The movement of water from plants into the atmosphere is called?
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44. Cycles/Random
for 100
Transpiration
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45. Question: What is nitrogen fixation? Who does it?
Cycles/Random
for 200
Question: What is nitrogen fixation?
Who does it?
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46. Cycles/Random
for 200
Answer: Converting nitrogen gas into a more useable form for plants to use.
Bacteria
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47. Cycles/Random
For 300
Question: What is the difference in the movement of energy and nutrients?
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48. Answer: Nutrients are recycled Energy flows in one direction
Cycles/Random
for 300
Answer: Nutrients are recycled
Energy flows in one direction
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49. Check Your Answer Cycles/Random for 400
Question: How is carbon released into the atmosphere?
How is carbon removed from the atmosphere?
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50. Back to Game Board Cycles/Random for 400
Answer: Carbon is released by Burning fossil fuels, respiration, weathering and erosion
Carbon is removed by photosynthesis and absorption by rock
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51. Question: What is homeostasis?
Cycles/Random
for 500
Question: What is homeostasis?
List 3 other characteristics of living things.
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52. Back to Game Board Cycles/Random for 500
Answer: Homeostasis is the process by which organisms keep their internal conditions the same or stable.
Cells, Reproduce, Evolve, Growth and Development etc.
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