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Ecology Jeopardy
Nutrient
Cycles
Ecosystems
Energy
Pollution
1st semester
or Grab-bag
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Final Jeopardy
(if you get this wrong, you lose whatever
you wagered)
Nutrient Cycles: 1 point
Home
Water vapor/gas changing to liquid can best be seen
in which area of this water cycle?
Nutrient Cycles: 2 points
Home
The balance of the oxygen cycle is maintained by
autotrophs releasing _(a)_____________ and
heterotrophs releasing _(b)_____________.
Nutrient Cycles: 3 points
Home
Which nutrient/chemical cannot be found in the
atmosphere of Earth?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Water
Carbon
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Oxygen
It’s released from rocks
Nutrient Cycles: 4 points
Home
Bacteria converting nitrogen in the air (N2)
into usable nitrogen in the soil is called
____________.
N2
Nitrates
Nutrient Cycles: 5 points
Home
Fertilizers from agriculture are often washed into
lakes. This causes an extreme growth of algae
which leads to the death of the lake. What is
this extreme growth of algae called?
Ecosystems:
1 point
cat
hawk
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owl
According to this food
web, how many
organisms would
decomposers feed
upon?
Blue jay
spider
Grasshopper
grass
squirrel
seeds
Ecosystems: 2 points
Home
Beavers play a role in a community… their dams block
water to create wetlands.
Bees play a role in a community. They help to
pollinate flowering plants.
Mushrooms play a role in a community. They help
recycle nutrients back into the soil.
What is an organisms role in the community called?
Niche
Ecosystems: 3 points
Home
Lichen and moss are often called ______________
species because they are the first to arrive in a
newly formed area of land.
Ecosystems: 4 points
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Name the process of change where ecosystems
gradually become more complex.
Ecosystems: 5 points
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Epiphytes are plants that live their entire lives
atop trees. The epiphytes use the larger tree as
a surface to grow but don’t help nor harm the
larger tree. Which type of symbiosis is this?
epiphyte
Energy: 1 point
Home
What percent of energy is lost at every level of a food
chain?
hawk
snake
mouse
Grasshopper
plant
Energy: 2 points
Home
Pretend this was a food chain common
to a forest. Which consumer would
be found in greatest numbers?
(which consumer would have the
largest population?)
Energy: 3 points
Which organism(s) pictured are detrivores?
mushroom
earthworm
vulture
fox
Home
tree
Energy: 4 points
Home
Examine the energy pyramid. How many calories
would be available to the mouse?
50,000 calories
500,000 calories
= 5,000,000 calories
Energy: 5 points
Home
In the 1980s, scientists discovered a species of
bacteria that could feed on the chemicals released
from deep sea vents. Name the process where
bacteria convert these chemicals into energy.
Pollution: 1 point
Home
The three main needs to create smog are nitrogen
oxides, oxygen, and ___________________.
Pollution: 2 points
Two part question:
A) The ozone layer is
thinning because of
which man-made
chemical?
B) What is striking
the earth as a result
of the thinning ozone
layer?
Home
Pollution: 3 points
Pollutants such as
mercury are
absorbed by the
producers and
accumulate as
you move up the
food chain. This is
an example of
which
environmental
problem?
Home
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Pollution: 4 points
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Name the two acids that commonly fall in acid rain.
Pollution: 5 points
Home
After deforestation, name the process where wind
slowly carries away fertile topsoil.
Topsoil
Clay
1st Semester Review: 1 point
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What is the diploid number of chromosomes
according to this karyotype?
Grab Bag: 2 points
Home
President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 as
he was driving through which American city?
1st Semester Review: 3 points
Home
Place these letters in order from smallest to
largest.
A)
B)
C)
D)
Nucleotide
Carbon
Nucleic acid
Nitrogen base
1st Semester Review: 4 points
Home
Place the steps of protein creation in the order from
start to finish.
Step A
Step
B A
Step
Step
E
Step B
RibosomesRibosomesNucleolus
Ribosomes
Nucleolus
attach andexit
travel
creates
the
attach
and
the
creates
along the rough
ribosome
travel
nucleus
the
ER
along the
ribosome
rough ER
Step D
Vesicle protects the
protein and releases
it from the cell
StepStep
C C Step D
Protein created
Protein
Vesicle
by the
created
byribosome
protects
to the
the is passed the
Golgi bodyprotein
ribosome
is passed
and
releases it
SteptoEthe
Golgi body
Ribosomes
exit from the
cell
the nucleus
Grab Bag: 5 points
Home
What is the best selling hip-hop album of all time?
MC Hammer:
Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt Em (1990)
Eminem:
Marshal Mathers LP (2000)
Notorious BIG:
Life After Death (1997)
2Pac Greatest Hits
(1998)
Lil Wayne:
Tha Carter III (2008)
Will Smith:
Big Willie Style (1997)
Final Jeopardy
Home
The topic of the question is “Succession.”
Directions:
1) On a piece of paper, write your group number and
the amount of points you wish to gamble.
2) When ready, send one person to trade your
wager for the question. The quicker you decide,
the more time you will have to complete the task.
Final Jeopardy
Home
Ecosystems are constantly changing. Both (2) ___________
(1) ____________
and biotic factors change
abiotic
succession
in every ecosystem. One type of ecosystem change is called (3) __________________.
This results in one community replacing another over time. This process might begin on
bare rock formed from the cooling of molten (4) ___________.
This process begins when
lava
moss/lichen also known as the (7) ______________________,
pioneer species
moss/lichen & (6) ___________
(5) ___________
begin living on and break down bare rock. When these organisms die, their remains mix
soil
with the rock pieces to form a thin layer of (8) _______________.
This process of
establishing and developing an ecosystem in a previously uninhabited area is called
(9) __________________________.
The mature community that eventually forms is
primary succession
climax community
called the (10) _____________________________.
Sometimes that community is
destroyed by a (11) _______________.
A new community will replace the destroyed one
fire
secondary succession
through the process of (12) ______________________________.
This process happens
intact
quicker
much (13) __________________
because the soil is usually left (14) _______________.
Choices:
• Abiotic
• Ecosystems
• Intact
• Pioneer species
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Climax community
Quicker
Lichen
Soil
Fire
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Primary succession
Moss
Succession
Lava
Secondary succession
Print for each group
(1) ____________ are constantly changing. Both (2) ___________ and biotic factors change
in every ecosystem. One type of ecosystem change is called (3) __________________.
This results in one community replacing another over time. This process might begin on
bare rock formed from the cooling of molten (4) ___________. This process begins when
(5) ___________ & (6) ___________ also known as the (7) ______________________,
begin living on and break down bare rock. When these organisms die, their remains mix
with the rock pieces to form a thin layer of (8) _______________. This process of
establishing and developing an ecosystem in a previously uninhabited area is called
(9) __________________________. The mature community that eventually forms is
called the (10) _____________________________. Sometimes that community is
destroyed by a (11) _______________. A new community will replace the destroyed one
through the process of (12) ______________________________. This process happens
much (13) __________________ because the soil is usually left (14) _______________.
Choices:
• Abiotic
• Ecosystems
• Intact
• Pioneer species
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•
Climax community
Quicker
Lichen
Soil
Fire
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Primary succession
Moss
Succession
Lava
Secondary succession