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APES Test Review Jeopardy I Stage
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A: APES Intro,
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C Energy Flow in
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Laws & Risk
Biogeochemical
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Ecosystems
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E: Biomes
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A-100
• ANSWER: Depletion of potentially
renewable resources to which people
have free and unmanaged access.
• QUESTION: What is the Tragedy of the
Commons?
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A-200
• ANSWER: The increase in concentration
of a chemical in organisms at successively
higher tropic levels of a food chain or
web
• QUESTION: What is biomagnification?
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A-300
• ANSWER: The median lethal dose of a
toxic material per unit of body weight of
test animals that kills half the test
population.
• QUESTION: What is LD50?
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A-400
• ANSWER: Energy can be converted
from one form to another, but it cannot
be created or destroyed
• QUESTION: What is the First Law of
Thermodynamics?
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A-500
• ANSWER: When there is uncertainty
about the potential harm from chemicals,
technology or decisions, people making
decisions should act to prevent the harm
from occurring.
• QUESTION: What is the Precautionary
Principle?
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B-100
• ANSWER: Process in which water vapor
cools and condenses into liquid or solid
form.
• QUESTION: What is condensation?
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B-200
• ANSWER: A biotic process that removes
carbon from the atmosphere.
• QUESTION: What is photosynthesis?
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B-300
• ANSWER: The process in which soil
bacteria convert N2 from the atmosphere
into ammonia, from a form plants cannot
use to a form plants can use.
• QUESTION: What is nitrogen fixation?
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B-400
• ANSWER: This cycle shows how its
element moves through plants, soil, water
and rocks, but not through the
atmosphere.
• QUESTION: What is the phosphorus
cycle?
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B-500
• ANSWER: This cycle shows how its
element naturally enters the atmosphere
through volcanic action, fires, dust
storms and from algae activity.
• QUESTION: What is the sulfur cycle?
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C-100
• ANSWER: Feeding levels of organisms
within a food chain or web
• QUESTION: What are trophic levels?
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C-200
• ANSWER: Herbivores, Carnivores,
Omnivores, Scavengers, Detrivores
• QUESTION: What are the different
types of consumers in food chains?
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C-300
• ANSWER: The single factor that limits
or restricts the growth, abundance or
distribution of a species.
• QUESTION: What is a limiting factor?
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C-400
• ANSWER: About 10% of the energy
from one trophic level is available to the
next (the rest is lost to the environment as
heat).
• QUESTION: What is the 10% rule?
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C-500
• ANSWER: Gross primary productivity
(GPP) less energy used in respiration (R);
a measure of how fast producers can
provide the food needed by consumers in
an ecosystem.
• QUESTION: What is Net Primary
Productivity (NPP)?
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D-100
• ANSWER: The role a species has in an
ecosystem.
• QUESTION: What is a niche?
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D-200
• ANSWER: A species considered essential
to the well-being of an ecosystem, one
that affects many other organisms in the
ecosystem.
• QUESTION: What is a keystone species?
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D-300
• ANSWER: Mutualism
• QUESTION: What is a species
interaction in which both members
benefit?
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D-400
• ANSWER: 4 examples of species’ defense
mechanisms
• QUESTION: What are Mimicry,
Camouflage, Chemical Warfare and
Warning Coloration (others possible)?
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D-500
• ANSWER: The gradual establishment of
biotic communities on nearly lifeless/soilless ground.
• QUESTION: What is primary
succession?
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E-100
• ANSWER: It is found in both arctic
latitudes as well as high elevations.
• QUESTION: Where is the Tundra biome
located?
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E-200
• ANSWER: Its 2 major subtypes include
prairies and savannahs
• QUESTION: What are the subtypes of
the Grasslands biome?
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E-300
• ANSWER: It is characterized by conifers
and is often cold.
• QUESTION: What are major features of
the Coniferous Forest biome?
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E-400
• ANSWER: It is a temperate shrubland of
low precipitation, subject to fires.
• QUESTION: What is the Chaparral
biome?
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E-500
• ANSWER: It is coastal, cool, rainy, and
has many evergreens that create a dense
canopy.
• QUESTION: What is the Temperate
Rainforest biome like?
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FINAL JEOPARDY
• ANSWER: Glucose is broken down to
supply energy for cellular processes.
• QUESTION: What is cellular
respiration?
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