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Click Four Times for Answers A pond contains fish, snails, and insects. It also contains pond plants and algae which make oxygen. What are some of the populations found in this pond? Fish Snails Insects algae Click Four Times for Answers Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer All the sea gulls of a species that occur together at the beach in the summer are called a what? population Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

What effect can a long term drought have on a forest ecosystem? Grasses, shrubs, and trees of the forest die Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Decomposers are helpful to the food chain because they do what? Provide nutrients for the soil Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

What are some examples of consumers? Omnivores Herbivores Carnivores Click Three Times for Answers Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer Wild deer live in Daniel Boone National forest. What would make the deer population smaller? Introducing a predator of the wild deer, like the gray wolf. Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

The removal of a predator from a food web can have what effect? It may allow the numbers of its prey to increase. Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

What is a main role of fungi and bacteria in a food web? Decomposers of once living material that return nutrients to the soil Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer A tornado roars through a rural environment uprooting trees and dropping debris in freshwater streams and ponds. What effect can the tornado have on the animal life of the ecosystem? Populations of native animals will decrease from lack of shelter and food. Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

What would be an example of a parasitic relationship? Tick and dog Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer In a food chain, a mouse eats grass, a hawk eats the mouse, and a wolf eats the hawk. What is the primary role of the mouse in this food chain? To be a source of energy Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer In a food chain, a mouse eats grass, a hawk eats the mouse, and a wolf eats the hawk. The grass would be considered what? A producer Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer In a food chain, a mouse eats grass, a hawk eats the mouse, and a wolf eats the hawk. The mouse would be considered what? An herbivore Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer In a food chain, a mouse eats grass, a hawk eats the mouse, and a wolf eats the hawk. The wolf would be considered what? A carnivore Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer What is something that could create an increase in the size of a population? An increase of food A decrease in predator populations Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

What kind of organism comes last in every food chain? Decomposers Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer The arrows in a food chain show the path that energy and nutrients take. They point to the organism that ___ the energy. receives Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

The process that plants use to make their own food is called what? photosynthesis Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: Large body of salt water Ocean Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: are found where fresh and salt water meet Salt marsh Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: Plants grow here in layers according to the amount of sunlight they need. Forests Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: The savanna in Africa and the prairies in the US are examples grasslands Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: Freshwater with very little (if any) salt Lakes / ponds Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click Two Times for Answers Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: Organisms have to adapt to living in salt Ocean Salt marsh Click Two Times for Answers Back to Jeopardy

Click Three Times for Answers Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: The depth of it can determine what organisms can live there. Ocean Lakes / ponds Salt Marsh Click Three Times for Answers Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: Biotic factors include – squirrel, trees, bears Forests Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: abiotic factors include – sunlight water climate and temperature All ecosystems Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer Identify which of the various ecosystems the following statement is describing: biotic factors include – cord grass, egrets, raccoons, and crabs Salt marsh Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click Six Times for Answers Limiting factors in an ecosystem that can limit the size of plant and animal populations include: Food Shelter Space Water Temperature disease Click Six Times for Answers Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer Given the following organisms, what would be the best food chain to show the transfer of energy? Humans, cows, sun, grass Sun > Grass > Cow > Human Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

What would be an example of a predator/ prey relationship? Hawk and Mouse Cat and Mouse Click Two Times for Answers Back to Jeopardy

Click Three Times for Answers Off the coast of South Carolina, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources is sinking old steel ships to create artificial reefs. What effect will this have on this part of the ocean? Young sponges, anemones, and other animals that stick to solid objects will come and live there Algae and sea plants that attach to solid objects will come and live there Small fish, which hide among solid objects from predators, will come and live there Click Three Times for Answers Back to Jeopardy

In the organisms get their energy from the sun? All of the plants They produce their own food using sunlight Click Two Times for Answers Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer What living thing in the pond system breaks down dead plants and animals? bacteria bacteria Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click Three Times for Answers A primary consumer feeds on plants. A secondary consumer feeds on plant-eating animals. Which of the following animals are primary consumers? Rabbit Mouse Goat Click Three Times for Answers Back to Jeopardy

Looking at the picture, which animal is an omnivore, and why? Rabbit It eats plants and animals Click Two Times for Answers Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer In the following picture what is the purpose of the green plant in the food web? Provide food for the rabbit, mouse and goat Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer A cell part is described as smaller than the nucleus, green, needed for food making, and found in algae and plant cells, what is it? Chloroplast Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer The internal parts of a cell are suspended in a jelly-like liquid called the what? Cytoplasm Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer The substance that is found in the chloroplasts of plants and makes those parts look green is called what? Chlorophyll Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer What part of the cell is found within the nucleus and contains the genetic information for the cell? Chromosomes Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer What part of the cell controls all the cell’s activities and is often called the brain of the cell? Nucleus Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer What part of the cell is the storage center for the cell? It is similar to the pantry in your house since it stores items like water and wastes. Vacuoles Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

What are the two items that are only found in plant cells? Chloroplasts and cell wall Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Plants have fewer and larger what? Vacuoles Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

What is the shape for plant cells? Shaped like a box Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click One Time for Answer What is the part of the cell that allows oxygen and nutrients to enter the cell and carbon dioxide and wastes to exit the cell? Cell membrane Click One Time for Answer Back to Jeopardy

Click Five Times for Answers Cytoplasm Animal Cell Vacuole Nucleus Cell membrane Please identify the following parts: Nucleus, Vacuole, Cytoplasm, and Membrane AND what type of cell is this? Click Five Times for Answers Back to Jeopardy

Click Seven Times for Answers Cytoplasm Vacuole Cell wall Chloroplasts Cell membrane Plant cell Nucleus Please identify the following parts: Nucleus, Vacuole, Cytoplasm, Chloroplasts, Membrane, and cell wall AND what type of cell is this? Click Seven Times for Answers Back to Jeopardy