1. APES Test Review Jeopardy I Stage 1
A: APES Intro, Environmental Laws & Risk
B: Biogeochemical Cycles
C Energy Flow in Ecosystems
D: Adaptations & Species Interactions
E: Biomes
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3. A-100
ANSWER: Depletion of potentially renewable resources to which people have free and unmanaged access.
QUESTION: What is the Tragedy of the Commons?

4. A-200
ANSWER: The increase in concentration of a chemical in organisms at successively higher tropic levels of a food chain or web
QUESTION: What is biomagnification?

5. A-300
ANSWER: The median lethal dose of a toxic material per unit of body weight of test animals that kills half the test population.
QUESTION: What is LD50?

6. A-400
ANSWER: Energy can be converted from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed
QUESTION: What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?

7. A-500
ANSWER: When there is uncertainty about the potential harm from chemicals, technology or decisions, people making decisions should act to prevent the harm from occurring.
QUESTION: What is the Precautionary Principle?

8. B-100
ANSWER: Process in which water vapor cools and condenses into liquid or solid form.
QUESTION: What is condensation?

9. B-200
ANSWER: A biotic process that removes carbon from the atmosphere.
QUESTION: What is photosynthesis?

10. B-300
ANSWER: The process in which soil bacteria convert N2 from the atmosphere into ammonia, from a form plants cannot use to a form plants can use.
QUESTION: What is nitrogen fixation?

11. B-400
ANSWER: This cycle shows how its element moves through plants, soil, water and rocks, but not through the atmosphere.
QUESTION: What is the phosphorus cycle?

12. B-500
ANSWER: This cycle shows how its element naturally enters the atmosphere through volcanic action, fires, dust storms and from algae activity.
QUESTION: What is the sulfur cycle?

13. C-100 ANSWER: Feeding levels of organisms within a food chain or web
QUESTION: What are trophic levels?

14. C-200
ANSWER: Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores, Scavengers, Detrivores
QUESTION: What are the different types of consumers in food chains?

15. C-300
ANSWER: The single factor that limits or restricts the growth, abundance or distribution of a species.
QUESTION: What is a limiting factor?

16. C-400
ANSWER: About 10% of the energy from one trophic level is available to the next (the rest is lost to the environment as heat).
QUESTION: What is the 10% rule?

17. C-500
ANSWER: Gross primary productivity (GPP) less energy used in respiration (R); a measure of how fast producers can provide the food needed by consumers in an ecosystem.
QUESTION: What is Net Primary Productivity (NPP)?

18. D-100 ANSWER: The role a species has in an ecosystem.
QUESTION: What is a niche?

19. D-200
ANSWER: A species considered essential to the well-being of an ecosystem, one that affects many other organisms in the ecosystem.
QUESTION: What is a keystone species?

20. D-300
ANSWER: Mutualism
QUESTION: What is a species interaction in which both members benefit?

21. D-400 ANSWER: 4 examples of species’ defense mechanisms
QUESTION: What are Mimicry, Camouflage, Chemical Warfare and Warning Coloration (others possible)?

22. D-500
ANSWER: The gradual establishment of biotic communities on nearly lifeless/soil-less ground.
QUESTION: What is primary succession?

23. E-100
ANSWER: It is found in both arctic latitudes as well as high elevations.
QUESTION: Where is the Tundra biome located?

24. E-200 ANSWER: Its 2 major subtypes include prairies and savannahs
QUESTION: What are the subtypes of the Grasslands biome?

25. E-300 ANSWER: It is characterized by conifers and is often cold.
QUESTION: What are major features of the Coniferous Forest biome?

26. E-400
ANSWER: It is a temperate shrubland of low precipitation, subject to fires.
QUESTION: What is the Chaparral biome?

27. E-500
ANSWER: It is coastal, cool, rainy, and has many evergreens that create a dense canopy.
QUESTION: What is the Temperate Rainforest biome like?

28. FINAL JEOPARDY
ANSWER: Glucose is broken down to supply energy for cellular processes.
QUESTION: What is cellular respiration?