2. Science Jeopardy 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 Lesson 1Lesson 2Lesson 3Lesson 4Wildcard Final Jeopardy

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4. Question Answer A-100 Question: What do you call the role of a species in an ecosystem? Answer: Niche

5. Question Answer A-200 Question: Where are almost all the nutrients in a tropical rainforest located? Answer: Inside living things

6. Question Answer A-300 Question: All the populations living together in one area is called a ________. Answer: Community

7. Question Answer A-400 Question: What is ecology? Answer: The study of the relationships among living and nonliving parts of an area.

8. Question Answer A-500 Question: Describe the temperature and daylight in a rainforest. Answer: The amount of sunlight is about the same every day, the temperature is about the same all year, and there are no short winter days.

9. Question Answer Question: Besides plants, what else can carry out photosynthesis? Answer: Single-celled organisms B-100

10. Question Answer B-200 Question: What is an animal that feeds on the bodies of recently dead organisms? Answer: scavenger

11. Question Answer B-300 Question: Name the three types of consumers. Answer: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore

12. Question Answer B-400 Question: What is a producer? Answer: An organism that uses sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide.

13. Question Answer B-500 Question: What is a decomposer? Answer: An organism that helps to break down and decay dead organisms and the wastes of living organisms.

14. Question Answer C-100 Question: What do you call a simple diagram that shows how energy is passed among organisms in an ecosystem? Answer: food chain

15. Question Answer C-200 Question: The removal of a predator from a food web tends to have a __________effect on the food web. Answer: negative or bad

16. Question Answer C-300 Question: What is a food web? Answer: A combination of all the food chains in a community.

17. Question Answer C-400 Question: The difference between food chains and energy pyramids is that food chains don’t show the amount of _______ changes at each position. Answer: energy

18. Question Answer C-500 Question: Describe the first level of the energy pyramid. Answer: It represents the energy trapped by producers. Plants get the energy directly from the sun. It is the largest level with the most energy.

19. Question Answer D-100 Question: What do consumers give off that producers need? Answer: carbon dioxide

20. Question Answer D-200 Question: True or False? Some bacteria in the soil can change nitrogen compounds back into nitrogen compounds? Answer: True

21. Question Answer D-300 Question: Nitrogen compounds can also be changed back into ______________. Answer: nitrogen gas

22. Question Answer D-400 Question: During the process of photosynthesis, plants use sunlight + carbon dioxide + water to make what 2 things? Answer: sugar + oxygen

23. Question Answer D-500 Question: Describe the water cycle. Answer: Water evaporates from the land and oceans and forms water vapor. The water then condenses and falls back to earth as precipation.

24. Question Answer E-100 Question: Some tropical plants send out _______ that anchor them to the ground. Answer: Roots

25. Question Answer E-200 Question: True or False? At times, all parts of plants, including roots, stems, and branches, use sugar from the leaves. Answer: True

26. Question Answer E-300 Question: Plants use nitrogen compounds to make _________. QUESTION: Proteins

27. Question Answer E-400 Question: What is the equation for photosynthesis? Answer: sun + carbon dioxide + water sugar + oxygen

28. Question Answer E-500 Question: How does water cycle through the living parts of an ecosystem? Answer: Animals drink water and return it to the ecosystem through their waste, plants take water in through their roots and use it during photosynthesis and give some off during respiration.

29. Question Answer FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: QUESTION: