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Can You Survive? Ecosystem Review Game How to survive… You must collect all of the necessary items in order to survive. Food, water, shelter and space are the crucial categories you will need to successfully gather for your colony. Your colony must build a productive ecosystem by earning enough materials in each category. The first colony to complete this task will survive. 1 Space You must collect: 2 Shelters 3 Foods 4 Waters Directions • Every animal pair will go head-to-head against two opponents from the other colony. • These four individuals will have to compete to be the first to complete a task. • The individuals that successfully complete the task first will get a chance to answer a question. • If they answer the question correctly their colony gets the item. • If they answer the question incorrectly their opponent will have one chance to correctly answer the question and steal the item. Challenges #1: Build-a-Pyramid (cup stack) #2: Deep sea fishing crab’n (coin in a cup) #3: Critter Catch (chopstick pickup) #4: Fruit picking (cotton ball spoon) Spider web (string bead) Bulls Eye (rubber band knock down) Duck hunt (flying into cup) Challenges #1: Build-a-Pyramid (cup stack) #2: Water Well (straw) #3: Critter Catch (chopstick pickup) #4: Fruit picking (cotton ball spoon) Spider web (string bead) Bulls Eye (rubber band knock down) Duck hunt (flying into cup) Get Ready to Compete… _______ is the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource. Competition A _____________is an environmental element that cause a population to decrease. Limiting factor The top level of a food web is made up of Tertiary consumers As you move to the top of the energy pyramid the energy level _____. decreases The organism that is hunted and killed is called the _____. Prey A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species. Symbiosis Another name for a consumer is _______ heterotroph The largest population that an area can handle is it _____________. carrying capacity A ________ is a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Food chain What cycle does this image show? The CarbonOxygen Cycle If two species occupy the same niche, one of the species will eventually ___________. Go extinct / die off An interaction in which one organism kills another for food is called __________. predation ______ is the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. Natural selection This is an example of a _________. Food Web A ______ is the role of an organism in its habitat and how it makes it living. Niche _____________is the number of individuals in an area specific to size. Population density In some cases, 2 species are so dependent on each other that neither could live without the other. What is this type of relationship called? Mutualism the nonliving parts of an organism’s habitat Abiotic factors Consumers that eat only plants are called ______ heterotrophs As you move to the top of the energy pyramid the population _____. decreases • What cycle does this image show? Nitrogen Cycle A _________ represents the total mass of living organic matter at each trophic level in an ecosystem. Biomass pyramid the community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings ecosystems The base of the food pyramid is made up of Producers / autotrophs Mushrooms and bacteria are examples of ______ decomposers ______ are the behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environments. Adaptations _________involves one organism living on or inside another organism causing it harm. Parasitism This type of relationship is not that common in nature because two species are usually either helped or harmed by interaction. Commensalism Energy enters most ecosystems as _________ sunlight The organism a parasite lives on is called the ______. Host An owl is able to hunt at night because its big eyes let in as much light as possible to see in the dark. This is an example of a(n) _____________. adaptation An ________ shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web Energy pyramid Commensalism, parasitism and mutualism are all what type of relationship? Symbiotic Individuals with characteristics that are poorly suited to their environment are less likely to survive and ________. Reproduce a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms Scavenger all the members of one species in a particular area population What cycle does this image represent? The Water Cycle