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Ecology Jeopardy
Organization Energy Trophic Symbiotic Ecology
of Life Transfer Levels Relationships Extras

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Final Jeopardy
 $100 Question from
Organization of Life

I will use this ecology term to

refer to all human beings in this
room.
$100 Answer from
Organization of Life

What is a population?
 $200 Question from
Organization of Life

One living individual is

defined by using this
term.
 $200 Answer from
Organization of Life

What is organism?
 $300 Question from
Organization of Life

The part of Earth where life exists.

 $300 Answer from
Organization of Life

What is the biosphere?

 $400 Question from
Organization of Life

A __________ is several species

of animals interacting, while a
population is members of one
species in an area.
 $400 Answer from
Organization of Life

What is a community?
 $500 Question from
Organization of Life

The five levels of organization in

the environment, from first to fifth
level, are….
 $500 Answer from
Organization of Life

What is ….
Organism, population, community,
ecosystem, and biosphere?
 $100 Question from
Energy Transfer

A food web shows energy connections

better than a food _______.
 $100 Answer from
Energy Transfer

What is chain?
 $200 Question from
Energy Transfer

Living things that make their own

food from sunlight are ________.
 $200 Answer from
Energy Transfer

What are producers (or autotrophs)?

 $300 Question from
Energy Transfer

A triangular diagram that shows an

ecosystem’s loss of energy.
 $300 Answer from
Energy Transfer

What is an energy pyramid?

 $400 Question from
Energy Transfer

A simple diagram that is used to

track who-eats-who.
 $400 Answer from
Energy Transfer

What is a food chain?

 $500 Question from
Energy Transfer

If a chicken eats grains worth

10KJ energy over its lifetime, the
person eating that chicken will
only get __KJ.
 $500 Answer from
Energy Transfer

What is 1KJ?
 $100 Question from
Trophic Levels

An organism that eats only plants.

 $100 Answer from
Trophic Levels

What is an herbivore (or

primary consumer)?
 $200 Question from
Trophic Levels

An organism that eats both plants

and animals.
 $200 Answer from
Trophic Levels

What is an omnivore?
 $300 Question from
Trophic Levels

A spider that traps/hunts and

feeds on live insects is an
example of a(n)…
 $300 Answer from
Trophic Levels

What is predator?
 $400 Question from
Trophic Levels

An organism that breaks down

organic matter, recycling nutrients
back into the environment, e.g.,
bacteria and fungi.
 $400 Answer from
Trophic Levels

What are decomposers?

 $500 Question from
Trophic Levels
Phyto.  Zooplankton  Herring  Salmon  Seal  Orca
(1000 Cal.)
The amount of energy that will be
transferred from one herring to an
Orca in this food chain will be __KJ.
$500 Answer from
Trophic Levels

What is 1 Calorie?
 $100 Question from
Symbiotic Relationships

Young wasps are eating the tomato

hornworm that is their host.
this is an example of_________.
 $100 Answer from
Symbiotic Relationships

What is parasitism?
 $200 Question from
Symbiotic Relationships

A crow and a raven try to take over

a certain nesting area. This is
example of ____.
 $200 Answer from
Symbiotic Relationships

What is competition?
 $300 Question from
Symbiotic Relationships

In this type of symbiosis, organisms

help each other.
 $300 Answer from
Symbiotic Relationships

What is mutualism?
 $400 Question from
Symbiotic Relationships

When a group of transient orcas

strategically hunt for a minkee
whale, the minkee whale is a
____ in this relationship.
 $400 Answer from
Symbiotic Relationships

What is prey?
 $500 Question from
Symbiotic Relationships

A symbiotic relationship in which

one organism benefits and the
other is neither helped nor harmed.
 $500 Answer from
Symbiotic Relationships

What is commensalism?
 $100 Question from
Ecology Extras

The study of interactions between

living things and their environment
is ______________.
$100 Answer from
Ecology Extras

What is ecology?
 $200 Question from
Ecology Extras
An environmental study reporting
on the way temperature, water
quality, and minerals affect the
animals in a salt marsh is studying
a(n) ____________
(organism/population/ecosystem)
 $200 Answer from
Ecology Extras

What is ecosystem?
 $300 Question from
Ecology Extras

When undigestible toxic

materials are collected in an
organism’s body over its
lifetime, it is called ________.
 $300 Answer from
Ecology Extras

What is bioaccumulation?
 $400 Question from
Ecology Extras
This biological phenomenon is
the reason that a vegetarian
person most likely has less
concentration of toxic chemicals
in their body than a meat-eater.
 $400 Answer from
Ecology Extras

What is biomagnification?
 $500 Question from
Ecology Extras
The disruption of carbon cycle
has led to increased
concentration of this state of
carbon on earth.
(solid/liquid/gas)
 $500 Answer from
Ecology Extras

What is gas?
Final Jeopardy - Subject

Interactions with the

Environment
Question
 Final Jeopardy Question
For an ecosystem to remain
sustainable, it is important that its
___________ is maintained.
(A term used to refer to the variety
of life in an ecosystem)
Answer
Final Jeopardy Answer

What is biodiversity?