2. Ecology Jeopardy Directions In Jeopardy, remember the answer is in the form of a question. Select a question by clicking on it. After reading the question click on the word “answer” on the bottom of the screen. After seeing the answer, click on the picture of the cell to return to the question board. Click here to begin.

3. Ecology Jeopardy Organization of Life Symbiotic Relationships Ecology Extras Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy Energy Transfer Trophic Levels

4. $100 Question from Organization of Life What is the lowest level of environmental organization that three male egrets would all belong in together?

5. $100 Answer from Organization of Life What is a population?

6. $200 Question from Organization of Life What word describes a community of organisms and their environment?

7. $200 Answer from Organization of Life What is ecosystem?

8. $300 Question from Organization of Life The part of Earth where life exists.

9. $300 Answer from Organization of Life What is the biosphere?

10. $400 Question from Organization of Life A __________ is several species of animals interacting, while a population is members of one species in an area.

11. $400 Answer from Organization of Life What is a community?

12. $500 Question from Organization of Life The five levels of organization in the environment, from first to fifth level, are….

13. $500 Answer from Organization of Life What is …. Organism, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere?

14. $100 Question from Energy Transfer A food web shows energy connections better than a food _______.

15. $100 Answer from Energy Transfer What is chain?

16. $200 Question from Energy Transfer Living things that make their own food from sunlight are ________.

17. $200 Answer from Energy Transfer What are producers (or autotrophs)?

18. $300 Question from Energy Transfer A triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s loss of energy.

19. $300 Answer from Energy Transfer What is an energy pyramid?

20. $400 Question from Energy Transfer A simple diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one rganism to another.

21. $400 Answer from Energy Transfer What is a food chain?

22. $500 Question from Energy Transfer In a food web, arrows point in just one direction because they show how energy goes to the animal….. ….that is eating OR that is eaten?

23. $500 Answer from Energy Transfer What is the animal THAT IS EATING?

24. $100 Question from Trophic Levels An organism that eats only plants.

25. $100 Answer from Trophic Levels What is an herbivore?

26. $200 Question from Trophic Levels An organism that eats both plants and animals.

27. $200 Answer from Trophic Levels What is an omnivore?

28. $300 Question from Trophic Levels A spider that feeds on live insects is an example of a(n)…

29. $300 Answer from Trophic Levels What is predator (also…consumer/carnivore)?

30. $400 Question from Trophic Levels An organism that breaks down organic matter, recycling nutrients back into the environment, e.g., bacteria and fungi.

31. $400 Answer from Trophic Levels What are decomposers?

32. $500 Question from Trophic Levels What word describes ALL the living organisms found at each of the ecological trophic levels?

33. $500 Answer from Trophic Levels What is biotic?

34. $100 Question from Symbiotic Relationships Young wasps are eating the tomato hornworm that is their host. this is an example of_________.

35. $100 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships What is parasitism?

36. $200 Question from Symbiotic Relationships Two members of the same species fight over how gets a certain food. Members of different species try to take over a certain nesting area. These are both examples of ____.

37. $200 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships What is competition?

38. $300 Question from Symbiotic Relationships In this type of symbiosis, organisms help each other.

39. $300 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships What is mutualism?

40. $400 Question from Symbiotic Relationships When a long-term change takes place in two species because of their close interactions with one another, the change is called __________.

41. $400 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships What is coevolution?

42. $500 Question from Symbiotic Relationships A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.

43. $500 Answer from Symbiotic Relationships What is commensalism?

44. $100 Question from Ecology Extras The study of interactions between living things and their environment is ______________.

45. $100 Answer from Ecology Extras What is ecology?

46. $200 Question from Ecology Extras An environmental study reporting on the way temperature, water quality, and minerals affect the animals in a salt marsh would be considering this level of organization.

47. $200 Answer from Ecology Extras What is ecosystem?

48. $300 Question from Ecology Extras Rocks, temperature, and water are what part of the environment?

49. $300 Answer from Ecology Extras What is abiotic?

50. $400 Question from Ecology Extras The term used to describe a sparrow that has been caught by an eagle.

51. $400 Answer from Ecology Extras What is prey?

52. $500 Question from Ecology Extras The organisms that feed on dead Organisms are specifically called ___________. A subcategory of This group includes the decomposers.

53. $500 Answer from Ecology Extras What are detritivores?

54. Final Jeopardy - Subject Interactions with the Environment Question

55. Final Jeopardy Question The largest population that an environment can support without doing irrevocable damage to the environment is called the ___________. Answer

56. Final Jeopardy Answer What is carrying capacity?