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“I have – Who has?” game: Ecology
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This game can be used as an active way to test student knowledge of key terms in this topic.
Everyone in the class can be involved, and each gets to ask and answer a question.
Key words:
Adaptation, competition, interdependence, habitat, pollution, food chain, food web, producer,
consumer, decomposer, vertebrates, invertebrates, sun, plants, animals, ecosystem, ecology,
conservation, distribution, acid rain, global warming, predator, prey.
How to play
The table below is either copied or printed, and cut into individual “cards”.
The cards are randomly deals the rest one per student. Each card has a statement “I have ….”,
followed by a question. The student with the STARTER card begins the game by reading out
the first question to the group, and the holder of the card with the answer to that question reads
their answer out, and their question in turn…
Note
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Certain words might cause problems – teacher can decide to hold that card and play as
part of the group, or change the text on the cards before copying
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One strategy for use with a group where the words might be difficult would be to give the
list of words to the students as a homework exercise prior to playing the game
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The students could be challenged to cooperate to form a circle so that the answer to each
person’s question is held by the person beside them
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I am the STARTER….
I have the….
Who has the organism that
Who has the rain that is formed
makes food for itself, and for
all others in the food chains?
I have the….
PRODUCER
ACID RAIN
when gasses from our cars and
factories dissolve?
I have the….
Who has the type of organisms
that cannot make its own food?
CONSUMER
Who has the animal that hunts
and kills its food?
I have the…PREDATOR
I have the…ADAPTATION
Who has living organisms’
Who has the place where an
ability to change in response to organism lives?
the environment?
I have the…HABITAT
I have the…COMPETITION
Who has what happens when
Who has the animals eaten by a
two or more groups of
predator?
organisms need the same
resources?
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I have the…PREY
I have the…FOOD
CHAIN
Who has the series of
Who has any or substance
organisms each getting its
.material
energy from the previous one?
a habitat?
I have the…POLLUTION
I have the. INTERDEPENDENCE
Who has the way that different
Who has the spread of
organisms depend on each
organisms across a habitat?
that should NOT be in
other?
I have the…DISTRIBUTION
I have the…ECOSYSTEM
Who has the system that
Who has the organisms that
includes living organisms and
break down dead organisms?
their environment?
I have the…DECOMPOSERS
I have…CONSERVATION
Who has the way humans can
Who has the organisms without
try to keep the natural world
a backbone?
the way it is?
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I have the…INVERTEBRATES
I have the…SUN
Who has the first source of
Who has the study of habitats
energy for all food chains and
and ecosystems?
food webs?
I have the…ECOLOGY
I have the…GLOBAL
Who has the climate changes
Who has the kingdom of
causing the polar ice caps to
organisms whose cells all have
melt?
cell walls?
I have the…PLANTS
I have the…VERTEBRATES
Who has the group of animals
Who has two or more food
with backbones?
chains with common links?
I have the…FOOD
I have the…ANIMALS
WEB
WARMING
…and I am the finisher…
Who has the kingdom of
organisms whose cells have no
cell walls?
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