2. THIS IS
ECOLOGY
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3. Biodiversity & Biosphere threats
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Ecology
Vocabulary
Food Chains & Webs
more ‘trophs & ‘vores
Biodiversity & Biosphere threats
Cycles of matter
‘trophs & ‘vores
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4. Many of these overlapping, single pathways make up a food web.

5. What are Food Chains?
A 100

6. This is the primary energy source of any food web, in
any ecosystem.
A 200

7. What is the sun?
A 200

8. in this trophic level of a food web.
All plant-eaters are
in this trophic level of a food web.
A 300

9. What is the primary or first level?

10. A quaternary consumer is also known as this level consumer
(some number)
A 400

11. What is the 4th level?
A 400

12. In any food web, the arrows always point in this direction.

13. What is “of energy transfer?”

14. “self-feeder”
B 100

15. What is an autotroph?
B 100

16. “other-feeder”
B 200

17. What is an heterotroph?
B 200

18. Humans, birds and
bears may be thought of
as this
type of ‘vore
B 300

19. What is an omnivore?
B 300

20. This primary (first level) consumer is this type of ‘vore.
B 400

21. What is a herbivore?
B 400

22. This type of ‘vore eats decomposing organic matter called detritus.
B 500

23. What is a detritivore?
B 500

24. Producers are all this type of ‘troph.

25. What is an autotroph?
C 100

26. Consumers are all this type of ‘troph.

27. What is a heterotroph?
C 200

28. The organism in the picture is this type
of ‘troph.
C 300

29. What is a heterotroph?
C 300

30. DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
C 400

31. A bacon-double cheeseburger with lettuce
onions and tomatoes may be lunch for this
type of ‘vore.
C 400

32. What is an omnivore?
C 400

33. (third level) consumer may be this type of ‘vore.
This tertiary
(third level) consumer
may be this type of ‘vore.
C 500

34. What is a carnivore or omnivore?

35. may let in the UV rays that harms living things.
This layer in the Earth’s atmosphere is being depleted which
may let in the UV rays that harms living things.
D 100

36. ozone
D 100

37. Pollution from car exhaust and factories may combine
with water vapor in the air to form this type of rain. (It can lower the pH of lakes and streams, which
caused loss of species.)
D 200

38. What is acid?
D 200

39. Clearing rainforests for farmland or firewood,
destroys the “homes” of many animals. An animal’s “home” is known this.
D 300

40. What is habitat?
D 300

41. A form of water pollution in which detergents are dumped into lakes and ponds, may cause this type of growth, that can lead to the death of fish.
D 400

42. What is an algal bloom?
D 400

43. This is the term for separation of wilderness areas from other wilderness areas due to development of the land by human development. (It can greatly disrupt habitats and cause local species extinction.)
D 500

44. What is habitat fragmentation?
D 500

45. Too much greenhouse gases, can lead to too much
greenhouse effect, which can lead to this type of
warming.
E 100

46. What is global?
E 100

47. Water, snow, sleet or hail falling to earth.

48. What is precipitation?
E 200

49. This is the process of water vapor becoming
liquid droplets.
E 300

50. What is condensation?
E 300

51. This greenhouse gas contains inorganic carbon which
may be released to the atmosphere by breathing,
or burning fossil fuels.
E 400

52. What is carbon dioxide ( CO2)?

53. Fertilizer used by farmers contains an organic form of
this element. Besides fertilizer this element may also
become organic by lightning the atmosphere or bacteria in the soil.
E 500

54. What is nitrogen (N2)?
E 500

55. The study of the relationship between organisms and their environment
The study of the relationship between organisms and their environment. It involves interactions with their environment as well as each other.
F 100

56. What is Ecology ?
F 100

57. The place on Earth where all life can be found.

58. What is the biosphere?
F 200

59. These make up the nonliving part of the environment including: air currents, temperature, moisture, soil, sunlight, etc..
F 300

60. What are abiotic factors?

61. A group of organisms, all the same species, which interbreed and live in the same area at the same time.
F 400

62. What is a population?
F 400

63. All strategies and adaptations a species uses in its environment---how it meets it needs for food, shelter, how and where it survives and where it reproduces.
F 500

64. What is a niche?
F 500

65. The Final Jeopardy Category is: Threats to the Biosphere
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66. This type of species, accidently introduced into
another ecosystem than
where it is usually found,
can eliminate other species
that normally live there.
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67. What is Invasive Species?
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