Download Ecology Bingo Review Sheet 2

What is a food web?
What is bioaccumulation?
List 3 types of Natural Disturbances that
could be limiting factors for population of
species.
What is biodiversity?
What is Carrying Capacity?
What is a producer (in a food chain)?
What is the definition of Limiting Factors?
Explain the Carbon Cycle.
What is precipitation? What are its forms?
What is the definition of pollution?
What is the cyclical order of the Water
Cycle?
Explain why top consumers have the most
pollutants in them.
What is a Primary Consumer?
In the Carbon Cycle, not all carbon is put
back into the cycle immediately. Why is
this so? Where does it go?
Give 3 possible examples of limiting factors.
When water falls back to Earth in the water
cycle, what are the two things that could
happen to it after it hits the ground?
If a top consumer was removed from a food
chain, explain the effects it would have on
that food chain.
Why is it important for farmers to have a
buffer of trees and vegetation between
their fields and a water source?
In a food chain diagram, what do the
arrows the arrows represent?
Hint: What is flowing up through the food
chain?
What is a Secondary Consumer?
Using the example of a forest fire, explain
what Ecological Succession is.
What is Transpiration?
What is a Tertiary Consumer?
What is a Quaternary Consumer?
What is Condensation?
What is Evaporation?
How many
food chains
are in this
food web?
What is a food web?
What is bioaccumulation?
A series of interconnected food chains.
Food chains represent the flow of energy
from producers through to varying levels of
consumers.
The buildup of pollutants in organisms. As
pollutants move through the food chain,
pollutants remain in the organism’s tissues.
What is a producer (in a food chain)?
What is the definition of Limiting Factors?
An organism that is able to make its own
food through the process of photosynthesis.
Any abiotic (non-living) or biotic (living)
factor that controls the number of
individuals in a population.
What is the cyclical order of the Water
Cycle?
Explain why top consumers have the most
pollutants in them.
List 3 types of Natural Disturbances that
could be limiting factors for population of
species.
What is biodiversity?
What is Carrying Capacity?
The measure of the variety of species in an
ecosystem.
The maximum number of individual
organisms that an ecosystem can support.
What is precipitation? What are its forms?
What is the definition of pollution?
Carbon-containing materials are passed
along from organism to organism through
the food chain. When organisms use food
for energy, the carbon is converted back into
carbon dioxide and is available for plants to
use again.
When water falls from clouds back to the
surface of the Earth in the form of rain, hail,
sleet or snow.
Any substance that is added to an
environment that cannot be broken down,
stored or converted into a form that is not
harmful. Pollutants cause pollution.
What is a Primary Consumer?
In the Carbon Cycle, not all carbon is put
back into the cycle immediately. Why is
this so? Where does it go?
Give 3 possible examples of limiting factors.
-Avalanche
-Tsunami
-Landslide
-Earthquake
-Fire/Lightning
-Drought
-Flood
-Extreme Weather
Explain the Carbon Cycle.
An animal that eats a producer.
Evaporation ---> Transpiration --->
Condensation ---> Precipitation ---> Ground
Water/Run Off
As pollutants enter the food chain, they are
When organisms die, they become part of the thick
stored in the tissues of organisms. As other
What is a Secondary Consumer?
carbon containing material at the bottom of
animals consume these polluted animals, the
lakes/oceans. After millions of years and pressure,
pollutant is passed on and becomes more
An animal that eats a primary consumer (can the materials are converted to coal, oil & gas. When
concentrated. Top consumers end up
also eat producers)
people use this fuel, or burn coal/oil, the energy is
getting the most pollutants.
released and carbon is converted into carbon dioxide.
Using the example of a forest fire, explain
what Ecological Succession is.
What is Transpiration?
What is a Tertiary Consumer?
A forest fire would drastically change an ecosystem.
Over time, since there is no forest canopy, rain and
sunlight can reach the ground. Small grasses, plants
and shrubs will start to grow. Consequently, small
insects and rodents would move back into the
ecosystem. As more vegetation grew, and primary
consumers increased, secondary consumers would
start to move back. As more species start to inhabit
the ecosystem, it is revived again. This is a very
SLOW process and involves gradual change.
When water is absorbed through plants’
roots and evaporates through the leaves,
stem and flowers.
An animal that eats a secondary consumer
(can also eat primary consumers and
producers)
What is a Quaternary Consumer?
An animal that eats a tertiary consumer (can
also eat secondary/primary consumers and
producers)
What is Condensation?
Evaporated water in the form of gas collects
and cools in clouds. The cooled gas is
condensed and turns back into water in the
form of precipitation.
What is Evaporation?
How many
food chains
are in this
food web?
There are 18 food chains
When water lakes, oceans, rivers, etc. is
heated from the sun and turned into water
vapor.
-Temperature
-Predation
-Predator/prey cycles
-Diseases/parasites
-Competition for resources
-Natural disturbances
When water falls back to Earth in the water
cycle, what are the two things that could
happen to it after it hits the ground?
If a top consumer was removed from a food
chain, explain the effects it would have on
that food chain.
It will either soak into the ground (ground
water) or be stored in the water table, or it
will run off the land into lakes, ponds, rivers,
streams and oceans.
It would have negative effects on the food chain. Top
consumers are predators and keep populations of
species under control. If species are no longer prey
for predators, there population will increase. This in
turn, will put stresses on the amount of food
available for the growing population. This will lead to
competition for resources and could eventually wipe
out the producers.
Why is it important for farmers to have a
buffer of trees and vegetation between
their fields and a water source?
The buffer of trees and vegetation will help
to absorb any pollutants that might be on
the farmer’s field (pesticides or animal
feces) and limit the chances of it getting into
the water (which could affect that
ecosystem)
In a food chain diagram, what do the
arrows the arrows represent?
Hint: What is flowing up through the food
chain?
The arrows represent the flow of energy.