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3. Food Chains 100 Points Question: Answer:
What typically starts a food chain?
Answer:
Producers
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4. Food Chains : 200 Points Question: Answer:
The animal that is second in a food chain is known as the __________ consumer.
Answer:
Primary
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5. Food Chains : 300 Points Question: Answer:
A more complex network of food chains is known as a ________.
Answer:
Food Web
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6. Food Chains : 400 Points Question: Answer:
Humans would usually be called what type of organism with respect to a food chain?
Answer:
The top consumer
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8. Populations : 100 Points Question: Answer:
Populations involve how many different types of organisms?
Answer:
One
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9. Populations: 200 Points Question: Answer:
When a population starts to level off, it is said to reach its ___________.
Answer:
Carrying Capacity
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10. Populations: 300 Points Question: Answer:
If a population falls for a few years because of a drought, that would known as a(n) ________ factor.
Answer:
Limiting Abiotic
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11. Populations : 400 Points Question: Answer:
Why does it take a population a few years to reach the log phase of growth?
Answer:
Organism must get used to the environment and have a suitable number of mates.
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13. Cycles: 100 Points Question: Answer: evaporation
When water leaves the oceans and returns to the atmosphere, the process is known as?
Answer:
evaporation
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14. Cycles: 200 Points Question: Answer: Photosynthesis
Plants use carbon in a process known as?
Answer:
Photosynthesis
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15. Cycles : 300 Points Question: Answer:
How is ammonia converted to nitrates in the soil?
Answer:
Nitrifying Bacteria
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16. Cycles: 400 Points Question: Answer:
Why are all three cycles so important?
Answer:
They transfer important nutrients around the ecosystem so that the ecosystem can stay healthy.
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18. Question: Answer: Energy: 100 Points
All of the energy that supplies a food chain originally comes from what?
Answer:
The sun
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19. Question: Answer: Energy: 200 Points
As energy is passed up a food chain, how much is usually lost?
Answer:
90%
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20. Energy: 300 Points Question: Answer:
Why are food chains typically not longer than 4 links?
Answer:
The energy is too depleted by the time it reaches the top.
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21. Question: Answer: Energy: 400 Points
If 5000 J of energy enters a food chain at the grass, then how much energy would the tertiary consumer receive of that original energy?
Answer:
0.5 J
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23. Effects: 100 Points Question: Answer:
You must always be careful when you change an ecosystem because you never know what type of _______ effects may occur.
Answer:
Ripple
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24. Effects: 200 Points Question: Answer:
If there was an increase in predators to an area, that would have a(n) ________ effect on a certain population and cause it to _________.
Answer:
Biotic, decrease
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25. Effects: 300 Points Question: Answer:
When humans damage an area so much that native organisms must leave, this effect is known as ____________.
Answer:
Habitat Change
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26. Effects: 400 Points Question: Answer: Invasive species
When someone brings a foreign species to a new area and that species begins to damage their new area, this effect is known as __________.
Answer:
Invasive species
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27. Whatever: 100 Points Question: Answer: Bioaccumulation
When toxins become more and more concentrated up a food chain, this is known as __________.
Answer:
Bioaccumulation
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28. Whatever: 200 Points Question: Answer: Fat soluble areas
What area of our bodies can we not get rid of substances?
Answer:
Fat soluble areas
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29. Whatever: 300 Points Question: Answer:
Explain the shape of an energy pyramid?
Answer:
There needs to be more organisms in the lower levels to sustain the upper levels because energy is lost along the way, so organisms higher up need to eat more from the lower levels.
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30. Whatever: 400 Points Question: Answer: Proteins
Nitrogen is a very important nutrient in an ecosystems cycle because it is key in producing what?
Answer:
Proteins
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31. Final Jeopardy! Question:
What is the main issue with the majority of the worlds water supply?
Answer:
It is salt water, which we can’t drink
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