1. Jeopardy!
Ecology

2. (if playing with white boards)
Rules:
(if playing with white boards)
No buzzards – everyone answers in allotted time, all correct answers will be given points.
Answers must be legible and in the form of a question.
First to answer correctly gets to pick next category

3. Poor sportsmanship will result in loss of points.
No shouting out answers
No getting upset at other students
No copying
Don’t let others see your answers

4. This Is
Jeopardy!
(Applause)

5. Environmental Organization
Cycling Matter
Environmental Organization
Energy Flow
Producers
Potpourri
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6. We get oxygen to breathe through this process in plants.

7. What is photosynthesis?

8. Animals release Carbon Dioxide into the air through this process.

9. What is cellular respiration?

10. Legumes
Bacteria in soil
Lightning
Decomposers

11. What are ways nitrogen gas can be “fixed” for use by plants?

12. The loss of water in plants, similar to sweating.

13. What is transpiration?

14. Used by animals to build amino acids, protein and DNA.

15. What is nitrogen?

16. A collection of populations that interact with one another.

17. What is a community?

18. A group of one type of species

19. What is a population?

20. The 5 environmental levels of organization (simplest to most complex)

21. OPCEB Organism Population Community Ecosystem Biosphere

22. A community and its abiotic factors

23. What is an ecosystem?

24. Rocks, water, soil, minerals.

25. What are abiotic factors?

26. The arrows on a food web show this.

27. What is the transfer of energy?

28. Consumers that get energy from plants only.

29. What are herbivores?

30. Kcals for Primary Consumers

31. What is 100 kcals?

32. The level that has the most available energy.
Secondary Consumers
Primary Consumers
Producers
The level that has the most available energy.

33. What are producers?

34. Tertiary Consumers Secondary Consumers Primary Consumers Producers

35. What are trophic levels?

36. A plant near a window grows towards the window.

37. What is phototropism?

38. A plant fell over and the roots still grew downwards.

39. What is geotropism?

40. Glucose (sugar) and Oxygen (O2).

41. What are products of photosynthesis?

42. Organisms that use solar (radiant) energy to make their own food.

43. What are autotrophs (or producers)?

44. Carbon Dioxide + Water

45. What are raw materials needed for photosynthesis?

46. Permafrost (freezing soil), few plants, caribou are found in this biome.

47. What is the arctic tundra?

48. The portion of the earth that supports life

49. What is the Biosphere?

50. The smallest part of the environment that supports flora (plants) and fauna (animals), such as a fallen log in a forest.

51. What is a microhabitat?

52. An organism that eats both animals and plants.

53. What is an ominivore?

54. Absorb nutrients from dead organisms (Fungi, Bacteria)

55. What is a decomposer?