Ecology Exam Jeopardy Template

Vocabulary 1	Vocabulary 2	Biology and the Environment	Cycles of Matter	Biomes
100 a.) What is habitat? b.) What is a niche? a.) What is the place where an organism lives? b.) What is process where an organism takes the role or position in its environment?	100 What is a biome? What is a large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of plant communities?	100 What is the group of interacting populations that occupy the same geographic area at the same time? What is a biological community?	100 What are the 4 main cycles of matter? The 4 main cycles of matter are carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, water cycle and phosphorus cycle.	100 What are the three main terrestrial biome groups? What are the Tropical, Temperate and High-Latitude biomes?
200 What is a symbiotic relationship? What is the close relationship that exist between two or more species that live in the same ecosystem?	200 a.) What is weather? b.) What is climate? a.) What is the condition of the atmosphere at a specific place and time? b.) What is the average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time?	200 What is the difference between an organism and a population? A population is group of organisms of the same species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time whereas in an organism is one individual living thing.	200 What is the cycle in which water is continuously cycled through the biosphere? What is the water cycle?	200 What three main biome subgroups are found in the U.S? What are the deciduous forest, temperate grassland and temperate desert?
300 a.) What are abiotic factors? b.) What are biotic factors? a.)What are the non-living factors in an organism's environment? b.)What are the living factors in an organism's environment?	300 What is metabolism? What is the sum of the energy used in all the life processes?	300 What are the levels of six biological organizations from largest to smallest? ^Biosphere, Biome, Ecosystems, Biological communities, Population and Organisms	300 a.) During what process do green plants take in carbon dioxide and water, using the chlorophyll in their leaves and energy from the sun to release sugar, oxygen and water vapor. B.) In this process, animals take in simple sugars and oxygen and release car a.) What is photosynthesis? b.) What is respiration?	300 A.) What two key factors determine a biome? B.) Give one example of a biome with those two key factors. A.) Climate and precipitation. B.) Answers will vary.
400 a.) What is an autotroph? b.) What is a heterotroph? a.) What is the interaction called when an organism collects energy from the sunlight or inorganic substances to make food? b.) What is the interaction called when an organism collects its energy by consuming other organisms?	400 What is dynamic equilibrium (homeostasis) What is the balanced internal environment where components of living things in humans and other organisms interact>	400 What is the symbiotic relationship called if heartworms developed inside a dog's heart which then caused the dog health problems and only the worm benefitted? What is a parasitism?	400 What occurs in the phosphorus cycle? Animals absorb phosphates by eating plants or plant-eating animals. When animals and plants die, phosphates will return to the soils or oceans again during decomposition. After that, phosphorus will end up in sediments.	400 What the latitude range of each of the 3 biome groups? High latitude biomes are found within the 60 degree and above range, temperate biomes are found within the 30-60 degree range and tropical biomes are found within the 0-30 degree range (nearest to the equator).
500 What is a biogiochemical cycle? What is the exchange of matter through the biosphere called?	500 a.) What is an energy pyramid? b.) What is a food web? a.) What is the diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy as it moves up each trophic level? b.) What is the model representing the many interconnected food chains and pathways in which energy flows through a group of organisms?	500 What is the importance of of all organisms needing to carry out metabolism? Organisms require chemical reactions to get energy, which they need to carry out all of the life processes including growth and movement.	500 a.) What are two of the main processes that occurs in the nitrogen cycle? b.) Explain what happens in each process. a.) Nitrogen fixation and denitrification b.) In nitrogen fixation, nitrogen is combined with hydrogen to form ammonia whereas in denitrification, ammonia is converted back into nitrate and then back into nitrogen.	500 What type of biotic factors would you find in the Savanna? Answers will vary.

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