1. Ecology Jeopardy Ch 5 and 6

2. Populations Grab bag Habitat/Niche Interactions In Communities Environmental Issues 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5

3. Category 1 for 1 Question: The number of individuals of one species that a certain area can support is known as the _______ ____________. Check Your Answer

4. Category 1 for 1 Answer: carrying capacity Back to the Game Board

5. Category 1 for 2 Question: Name two factors that make a population increase. Check Your Answer

6. Category 1 for 2 Answer: births and immigration Back to the Game Board

7. Category 1 for 3 Question: Which of the following are density-independent factors? a) a wildfire b) a heat wave c) a contagious disease d) food Check Your Answer

8. Category 1 for 3 Answer: wildfire and heat wave (choices a and b) Back to the Game Board

9. Category 1 for 4 Question: What are the two shapes of population graphs we studied in this unit? What is the name for each? Check Your Answer

10. Category 1 for 4 Back to the Game Board Answer: J (exponential) and S (logistic)

11. Category 1 for 5 Check Your Answer Name two ways that technology has contributed to the human population growing exponentially.

12. Category 1 for 5 Answer: improvements in medicine such as vaccines and antibiotics, and gas-powered farm equipment Back to the Game Board

13. Category 2 for 1 Question: What are two of the major greenhouse gases? Check Your Answer

14. Category 2 for 1 Answer: carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor Back to the Game Board

15. Daily Double for 4! Question: In the formation of acid rain, ______ is burned, releasing _________, which forms sulfuric acid in the atmosphere. Check Your Answer

16. Category 2 for 4 Answer: coal is burned, sulfur is released Back to the Game Board

17. Category 2 for 3 Question: Name an indicator species. Why is it considered an indicator species? Check Your Answer

18. Category 2 for 3 Answer: frogs, because their thin skin absorbs water (and pollutants) Back to the Game Board

19. Daily double for 8! Question: What are the two major components of smog? Check Your Answer

20. Category 2 for 8 Answer: ground level ozone and particulates Back to the Game Board

21. Category 2 for 5 Question: What is the name for the process by which toxic substances become more concentrated in organisms higher on the food chain? Check Your Answer

22. Category 2 for 5 Answer: biomagnification Back to the Game Board

23. Category 3 for 1 Check Your Answer Question: Give an example of interspecific competition in the prairie.

24. Category 3 for 1 Answer: a ferret and a coyote competing for prairie dogs. Back to the Game Board

25. Category 3 for 2 Question: The relationship between a honeybee and a flower is best described as: Check Your Answer

26. Category 3 for 2 Answer: Mutualism Back to the Game Board

27. Daily Double for 6! Question: Name the relationships shown by the following: + + - + 0 Check Your Answer

28. Category 3 for 6 Answer: + + = Mutualism + - = Parasitism or Predation + 0 = Commensalism Back to the Game Board

29. Category 3 for 4 Question: How do toxins in milkweed plants benefit monarch butterflies? Check Your Answer

30. Category 3 for 4 Answer: They make the butterflies distasteful to birds. Back to the Game Board

31. Category 3 for 5 Check Your Answer Question: A black rhinoceros grazes on the African plains. As it forages, the rhino disturbs multitudes of insects in the grass. Birds known as egrets forage on the ground near the rhino, eating insects flushed out by the hooves. Name 2 different types of interactions in this example.

32. Category 3 for 5 Answer: Predation = rhino and grasses, birds and insects. Commensalism = birds and rhino Back to the Game Board

33. Category 4 for 1 Check Your Answer Q: Earthworms aerate the soil by tunneling through it. They also enrich soil by adding their waste. They are efficient decomposers. This best describes the earthworm’s: a)Habitat b)Niche c)Footprint d)Limiting factors

34. Category 4 for 1 Answer: (b) niche Back to the Game Board

35. Category 4 for 2 Question: Name 2 differences between predators and parasites. Check Your Answer

36. Category 4 for 2 Answer: Predators are larger, and kill their prey. Parasites are small, and usually don’t kill their prey. Back to the Game Board

37. Daily Double for 6 Question: The colored areas are showing the _____ niche. Check Your Answer

38. Daily double for 6 Answer: realized niche Back to the Game Board

39. Category 4 for 4 Question: Which species has the larger fundamental niche? (a) A (b) B (c) The same Check Your Answer

40. Category 4 for 4 Answer: a) B Back to the Game Board

41. Category 4 for 5 Question: The blue, larger paramecium is outcompeted. This is called ______ _______ Check Your Answer

42. Category 4 for 5 Answer: competitive exclusion Back to the Game Board

43. Category 5 for 1 Question: Name 2 non-renewable resources. Check Your Answer

44. Category 5 for 1 Answer: coal and oil Back to the Game Board

45. Category 5 for 2 Question: Name 2 invasive (or introduced) species. Check Your Answer

46. Category 5 for 2 Answer: Zebra mussels in the Great Lakes, kudzu in the South, rabbits in Australia, pythons in the Everglades, mice in Australia Back to the Game Board

47. Category 5 for 3 Question: Which are populations? (a) All the animals in a zoo (b) All the dogs in an animal shelter (c) All the mosquitoes around a lake (d) Both b and c (e) a, b, and c Check Your Answer

48. Category 5 for 3 Answer: (d) both b and c Back to the Game Board

49. Category 5 for 4 Question: What are four ways you could decrease your ecological footprint? Check Your Answer

50. Category 5 for 4 Answer: carpool or public transportation, conserve energy around the home, eat foods produced locally, recycle more/produce less trash Back to the Game

51. Category 5 for 5 Question: What is the pH of normal rain? Check Your Answer

52. Category 5 for 5 Answer: around 5.6 Back to the Game Board