Ecology Jeopardy

Ch 5 and 6

Populations Grab bagHabitat/Niche Interactions

In Communities

Environmental Issues

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Category 1 for 1Question: The number of individuals of one species that a certain area can support is known as the _______ ____________.

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Category 1 for 1Answer: carrying capacity

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Category 1 for 2Question: Name two factors that make a population increase.

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Category 1 for 2Answer: births and immigration

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Category 1 for 3Question: Which of the following

are density-independent factors?

a) a wildfire b) a heat wave

c) a contagious disease d) food

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Category 1 for 3

Answer: wildfire and heat wave (choices a and b)

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Category 1 for 4Question: What are the two shapes of population graphs we studied in this unit? What is the name for each?

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Category 1 for 4

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Answer: J (exponential) and S (logistic)

Category 1 for 5

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Name two ways that technology has contributed to the human population growing exponentially.

Category 1 for 5Answer: improvements in medicine such as

vaccines and antibiotics, and gas-powered farm equipment

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Category 2 for 1Question: What are two of the major greenhouse gases?

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Category 2 for 1

Answer: carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor

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Question: In the formation of acid rain, ______ is burned, releasing _________, which forms sulfuric acid in the atmosphere.

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Category 2 for 4

Answer: coal is burned, sulfur is released

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Category 2 for 3Question: Name an indicator species.

Why is it considered an indicator species?

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Category 2 for 3

Answer: frogs, because their thin skin absorbs water (and pollutants)

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Daily double for 8! Question: What are the two

major components of smog?

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Category 2 for 8Answer: ground level ozone and particulates

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Category 2 for 5Question: What is the name for the process by which toxic substances become more concentrated in organisms higher on the food chain?

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Category 2 for 5Answer: biomagnification

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Category 3 for 1

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Question: Give an example of interspecific competition in the prairie.

Category 3 for 1

Answer: a ferret and a coyote competing for prairie dogs.

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Category 3 for 2Question: The relationship between a honeybee and a flower is best described as:

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Category 3 for 2Answer: Mutualism

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Daily Double for 6!Question: Name the relationships shown by the following:

+ +

+ -

+ 0

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Category 3 for 6Answer: + + = Mutualism+ - = Parasitism or Predation+ 0 = Commensalism

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Category 3 for 4

Question: How do toxins in milkweed plants benefit monarch butterflies?

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Category 3 for 4Answer: They make the butterflies distasteful to birds.

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Category 3 for 5

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Question: A black rhinoceros grazes on the African plains. As it forages, the rhino disturbs multitudes of insects in the grass. Birds known as egrets forage on the ground near the rhino, eating insects flushed out by the hooves. Name 2 different types of interactions in this example.

Category 3 for 5

Answer: Predation = rhino and grasses,

birds and insects. Commensalism = birds and rhino

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Category 4 for 1

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Q: Earthworms aerate the soil by tunneling through it. They also enrich soil by adding their waste. They are efficient decomposers. This best describes the earthworm’s:

a) Habitat

b) Niche

c) Footprint

d) Limiting factors

Category 4 for 1

Answer: (b) niche

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Category 4 for 2

Question: Name 2 differences between predators and parasites.

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Category 4 for 2

Answer: Predators are larger, and kill their prey. Parasites are small, and usually don’t kill their prey.

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Daily Double for 6Question: The colored areas are showing the

_____ niche.

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Daily double for 6Answer: realized niche

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Category 4 for 4Question: Which

species has the larger fundamental niche?

(a) A

(b) B

(c) The same

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Category 4 for 4Answer:

a) B

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Category 4 for 5Question: The blue, larger paramecium is outcompeted. This is called

______ _______

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Category 4 for 5Answer: competitive exclusion

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Category 5 for 1

Question: Name 2

non-renewable resources.

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Category 5 for 1Answer: coal and oil

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Category 5 for 2Question: Name 2 invasive (or

introduced) species.

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Category 5 for 2Answer: Zebra mussels in the Great Lakes, kudzu in the South, rabbits in Australia, pythons in the Everglades, mice in Australia

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Category 5 for 3Question: Which are populations?

(a) All the animals in a zoo

(b) All the dogs in an animal shelter

(c) All the mosquitoes around a lake

(d) Both b and c

(e) a, b, and c

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Category 5 for 3Answer: (d) both b and c

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Category 5 for 4Question: What are four ways you could

decrease your ecological footprint?

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Category 5 for 4Answer: carpool or public transportation, conserve energy around the home,

eat foods produced locally,

recycle more/produce less trash

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Category 5 for 5Question: What is the pH of normal rain?

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Category 5 for 5Answer: around 5.6

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