Download Ecosystem Review Game

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