Ecology

Ecology

REVIEW

JEOPARDY #2

S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Ways Ways OrganismsOrganisms Get energy Get energy

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Ways Organisms Get Energy

100

These organisms can make their own food using energy from the sun.

A: What are Autotrophs (producers) ?



200

A: What are Heterotrophs (consumers) ?

These organisms get energy by eating other organisms.



300

A: What are omnivores ?

These animals eat both meat and plants



400

A: What are decomposers?

Organisms that get energy from the decay or break down of dead organisms.



500

A: What is chemosynthesis?

Process in which organisms can make their own food without sunlight using inorganic molecules like hydrogen sulfide


Ecology100

A: What are food, water, space, sunlight & soil (plants)?

Give an example of a limiting factor.


Ecology 200

A: What is Competitive exclusion principle?

Rule in ecology which states that no two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time.


Ecology 300

A: What is autotroph ?

Every food chain can be traced back to the beginning where you will find an _________________.


Ecology 400

A: What are cooperation, competition, symbiosis, food webs ?

You learned about 4 ways animals interact. Name one.


Ecology 500

A: What is a niche ?

The full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives AND THE WAY IN WHICH IT USES THOSE CONITIONS.(includes not just WHERE it lives, but what it eats, what eats it, how it reproduces, etc)


Survival100

A: What is symbiosis ?

Type of interaction in which DIFFERENT kinds of organisms live is CLOSEASSOCIATION with each other


Survival200

A: What is a limiting factor ?

A physical factor in an ecosystem that limits the growth, development, or survival of organisms.


Survival300

A: What is cooperation?

When organisms warn each other of danger, share child care, share food, or help each other in some way


Survival400

A: What is symbiosis?

Relationship in which an organism benefits by living on, near, or inside of another organism


Survival500

A: What is only about 10%?

What % of its energy is passed on tothe trophic level above when an organism is eaten?


Symbiosis100

A: What is mutualism?


Symbiotic relationship in which BOTH organisms benefit

Symbiosis 200

A: What is parasitism ?


Symbiotic rrelationship in which one organism benefits but the other is harmed in some way

Symbiosis 300

A: What is different; the beneficial interaction between the SAME kind of organisms is called cooperation?

Symbiotic relationships exist between _____________ organisms

the same kind of different


Symbiosis 400

A: What is commensalism ?

A relationship in which one organism is helped and the other is NEITHER HARMED nor HELPED.


Symbiosis 500

A: What are mutualism, parasitism, commensalism ?

Name the 3 kinds of symbiosis you learned about


Biogeochemical cycles100

A: What is hydrologic (water), nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus?

Name one of the biogeochemical cycles you learned about



A: What is: nitrogen fixation ?

The process in which bacteria change atmospheric nitrogen into aform plants can use



A: What is: transpiration?


The return of water to the atmosphereas it evaporates from the leaves of plants


A: What is phosphorus?

Only cycle you learned about that does not include cycling through the atmosphere



A: What is denitrification?

The conversion of nitrates into nitrogen gas by soil bacteria


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