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Ecology Jeopardy
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Biomes
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©Norman Herr, 2000
A-100
ANSWER: The study of interactions
between organisms and the environment.
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QUESTION:What
is ecology?
A-200
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ANSWER: Nonliving component of an
ecosystem, such as temperature and
light.
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QUESTION: What is an abiotic factor?
A-300
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ANSWER:A
living component in an
ecosystem.
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QUESTION: What is a biotic factor?
A-400
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ANSWER:The
movement away from
centers of high population density
or from area of origin.
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QUESTION: What is dispersal?
A-500
ANSWER: The total number of individuals
per area or volume occupied.
QUESTION: What is density?
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in which rainfall
is relatively constant and
temperatures average 25-29
ANSWER: A biome in which rainfall
degrees Celsius.
is
relatively
constant
and
QUESTION: What is a tropical forest?
temperatures average 25-29
degrees Celsius.
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ANSWER: A biome
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QUESTION: What is a tropical forest?
B-200
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ANSWER:A
biome in which
temperatures vary seasonally and
rainfall is low and highly variable.
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QUESTION:What is a desert?
B-300
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ANSWER:A
biome in which the dry
season lasts around 8 months and
is warm year-round.
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QUESTION:What is a savanna?
B-400
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ANSWER:A
biome that covers
much of the Arctic, has long and
cold winters, and contains
permafrost.
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QUESTION: What is tundra?
B-500
ANSWER: The largest biome on Earth, has
cold and long winters, and warm summers.
QUESTION: What is a coniferous forest?
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C-100
ANSWER: A population's potential growth
in an unlimited environment.
QUESTION: What is exponential growth?
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C-200
ANSWER: The maximum population size
an environment can support.
QUESTION: What is the carrying capacity?
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C-300
ANSWER: A plot of the proportion or
numbers in a cohort alive at each age.
QUESTION: What is a survivorship curve?
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C-400
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ANSWER:All
biotic and abiotic
resources in the environment
used by an organism.
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QUESTION: What is a niche?
C-500
ANSWER: The defense of a bounded
physical space against encroachment by
other individuals.
QUESTION: What is territoriality?
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D-100
ANSWER: A relationship in which both
species benefit.
QUESTION: What is mutualism?
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D-200
ANSWER: A relationship in which one
species benefits, while the other is neither
helped nor harmed.
QUESTION: What is commensalism?
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D-300
ANSWER: A parasite benefits from a living
arrangement, while the host is harmed.
QUESTION: What is parasitism?
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D-400
ANSWER: This occurs when two or more
species resemble one another in
appearance.
QUESTION: What is mimicry?
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D-500
ANSWER: A conspicuous pattern or
coloration of animals that warns predators
they can cause harm.
QUESTION: What is aposematic
coloration?
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E-100
ANSWER: Autotrophs that convert sun
energy into chemical energy.
QUESTION: What are primary producers?
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E-200
ANSWER: Organisms that eat the primary
producers.
QUESTION: What are primary consumers?
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E-300
ANSWER: Organisms that eat the primary
consumers.
QUESTION: What are secondary
consumers?
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E-400
ANSWER: Organisms that eat the
secondary consumers.
QUESTION: What are tertiary consumers?
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E-500
ANSWER: Consumers that obtain energy
by consuming dead plants and animals.
QUESTION: What are detritivores?
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