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Nutrient Cycles Ecosystems Energy Pollution

1st semester or Grab-bag

Final Jeopardy(if you get this wrong, you lose whatever

you wagered)

Nutrient Cycles: 1 pointWater vapor/gas changing to liquid can best be seen

in which area of this water cycle?

Home

C

Nutrient Cycles: 2 points Home

The balance of the oxygen cycle is maintained by autotrophs releasing _(a)_____________ and heterotrophs releasing _(b)_____________.

a) Oxygenb) Carbon dioxide


Which nutrient/chemical cannot be found in the atmosphere of Earth?

A) WaterB) CarbonC) NitrogenD) PhosphorusE) Oxygen

It’s released from rocks


Bacteria converting nitrogen in the air (N2) into usable nitrogen in the soil is called ____________.Nitrogen fixation

N2 Nitrates


Fertilizers from agriculture are often washed into lakes. This causes an extreme growth of algae which leads to the death of the lake. What is this extreme growth of algae called?

AlgalBloom

Ecosystems: 1 point

Home

According to this food web, how many organisms would decomposers feed upon?

9seedsgrass

Grass-hopper

spider

Blue jay

cat

hawk

owl

squirrel

Ecosystems: 2 points Home

Beavers play a role in a community… their dams block water to create wetlands.

Bees play a role in a community. They help to pollinate flowering plants.

Mushrooms play a role in a community. They help recycle nutrients back into the soil.

What is an organisms role in the community called?

Niche


Lichen and moss are often called ______________ species because they are the first to arrive in a newly formed area of land.

pioneer


Name the process of change where ecosystems gradually become more complex.

Succession


Epiphytes are plants that live their entire lives atop trees. The epiphytes use the larger tree as a surface to grow but don’t help nor harm the larger tree. Which type of symbiosis is this?

Commensalism

epiphyte

Energy: 1 point Home

What percent of energy is lost at every level of a food chain?

90%

Energy: 2 points Home

Pretend this was a food chain common to a forest. Which consumer would be found in greatest numbers?

(which consumer would have the largest population?)

Grasshoppers (they are the animals with the

most energy available to them)plant

Grass-hopper

mouse

snake

hawk


Which organism(s) pictured are detrivores?

earthworm

mushroom

tree

vulture

fox


Examine the energy pyramid. How many calories would be available to the mouse?

= 5,000,000 calories

500,000 calories

50,000 calories


In the 1980s, scientists discovered a species of bacteria that could feed on the chemicals released from deep sea vents. Name the process where bacteria convert these chemicals into energy.

Chemo-synthesis

Pollution: 1 point Home

The three main needs to create smog are nitrogen oxides, oxygen, and ___________________.sunlight

Pollution: 2 points Home

Two part question:A) The ozone layer is thinning because of which man-made chemical?

B) What is striking the earth as a result of the thinning ozone layer?

CFCs

UV


Pollutants such as mercury are absorbed by the producers and accumulate as you move up the food chain. This is an example of which environmental problem?

Biomagnification

Pollution: 4 points

Home

Name the two acids that commonly fall in acid rain.

Sulfuric acid

Nitric acid

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????? acid

????? acid

????? acid


After deforestation, name the process where wind slowly carries away fertile topsoil.

Desertification

Clay

Topsoil

wind

1st Semester Review: 1 point Home

What is the diploid number of chromosomes according to this karyotype?

42

Grab Bag: 2 points Home

President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 as he was driving through which American city?

Dallas

1st Semester Review: 3 points Home

Place these letters in order from smallest to largest.

A) NucleotideB) CarbonC) Nucleic acidD) Nitrogen base

B, D, A, C

1st Semester Review: 4 points Home

Place the steps of protein creation in the order from start to finish.

Step BNucleolus creates the ribosome

Step ERibosomes exit the nucleus

Step ARibosomes attach and travel along the rough ER

Step CProtein created by the ribosome is passed to the Golgi body

Step DVesicle protects the protein and releases it from the cell

Step BNucleolus creates the ribosome

Step ERibosomes exit the nucleus

Step ARibosomes attach and travel along the rough ER

Step CProtein created by the ribosome is passed to the Golgi body

Step DVesicle protects the protein and releases it from the cell

Grab Bag: 5 points Home

What is the best selling hip-hop album of all time?

MC Hammer:Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt Em (1990)

Notorious BIG: Life After Death (1997)

Lil Wayne:Tha Carter III (2008)

Eminem: Marshal Mathers LP (2000)

2Pac Greatest Hits (1998)

Will Smith:Big Willie Style (1997)

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Final Jeopardy Home

The topic of the question is “Succession.”

Directions:

1) On a piece of paper, write your group number and the amount of points you wish to gamble.

2) When ready, send one person to trade your wager for the question. The quicker you decide, the more time you will have to complete the task.

Final Jeopardy Home(1) ____________ are constantly changing. Both (2) ___________ and biotic factors change

in every ecosystem. One type of ecosystem change is called (3) __________________. This results in one community replacing another over time. This process might begin on bare rock formed from the cooling of molten (4) ___________. This process begins when (5) ___________ & (6) ___________ also known as the (7) ______________________, begin living on and break down bare rock. When these organisms die, their remains mix with the rock pieces to form a thin layer of (8) _______________. This process of establishing and developing an ecosystem in a previously uninhabited area is called (9) __________________________. The mature community that eventually forms is called the (10) _____________________________. Sometimes that community is destroyed by a (11) _______________. A new community will replace the destroyed one through the process of (12) ______________________________. This process happens much (13) __________________ because the soil is usually left (14) _______________.

Choices:• Abiotic• Ecosystems• Intact• Pioneer species

• Climax community• Quicker• Lichen• Soil• Fire

• Primary succession• Moss• Succession• Lava• Secondary succession

Ecosystems abioticsuccession

lavamoss/lichen moss/lichen pioneer species

soil

primary successionclimax community

firesecondary succession

quicker intact

Print for each group(1) ____________ are constantly changing. Both (2) ___________ and biotic factors change

in every ecosystem. One type of ecosystem change is called (3) __________________. This results in one community replacing another over time. This process might begin on bare rock formed from the cooling of molten (4) ___________. This process begins when (5) ___________ & (6) ___________ also known as the (7) ______________________, begin living on and break down bare rock. When these organisms die, their remains mix with the rock pieces to form a thin layer of (8) _______________. This process of establishing and developing an ecosystem in a previously uninhabited area is called (9) __________________________. The mature community that eventually forms is called the (10) _____________________________. Sometimes that community is destroyed by a (11) _______________. A new community will replace the destroyed one through the process of (12) ______________________________. This process happens much (13) __________________ because the soil is usually left (14) _______________.

Choices:• Abiotic• Ecosystems• Intact• Pioneer species

• Climax community• Quicker• Lichen• Soil• Fire

• Primary succession• Moss• Succession• Lava• Secondary succession

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