Trophic Levels
Population
Food Webs
Nitrogen Cycle
Miscellaneous
100

Producers are typically first in the food chain, what is there trophic level?

What is 1 or What is First?

100

What is a K stand for on a graph? 

What is a carrying capacity? 

100

What is the sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism? 

What is a food chain?

100

N2 is known as what? 

What is Dinitrogen (Gas)?

100

What does RPHS stand for? 

What is Roxbury Prep High School? 

200

Ants are Herbivores. What is another name for an herbivore? 

What is a Primary Consumer?

200

What is the variable that changes as a result of the independent variable manipulation? 

What is a dependent variable?

200

A detailed description of the species within a community and their relationships with each other as well as showing how energy is transferred up food chains that are interlinked with other food chains is known as what?

What is a food web? 
200

What is the N-form of Ammonia? 

What is NH4+?

200

What role does Mr. Carlisle have at this school? 

What is Principal of Lower Campus RPHS? 

300

The sun gives producers 100% of energy. How much energy do producers give to primary consumers? 

What is 90%? 

300

An ecologist recorded 12 white-tailed deer, per square mile in one woodlot and 20 per square mile in another woodlot. What was the ecologist comparing?

What is population density? 

300

You walk into a park and see some grass, an eagle, a mouse and a snake. What is the order of this food chain? 

What is grass - mouse - snake - eagle?

300

N03- is what kind of Nitrogen? 

What is a Nitrate? 

300

What is biology the study of ?

What is the study of life? 


The word "biology" is derived from the Greek words "bios" (meaning life) and "logos" (meaning "study").

400

What is the order of trophic levels? 

What is a Primary Producer, Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Apex Predator?  

400

What kind of graph shows a population with unlimited resources? 

What is an exponential graph? 

400

A group 1 organisms were thriving and growing exponentially for 20 years until group 2 organisms migrated from their location to group 1 organisms locations. Now group 1 population size has cut in half within 1 week. What happened? 

What is group 1 and group 2 competed for resources or group 2 preyed on group 1 as a food resource? 

400

This final process of the nitrogen cycle involves releasing nitrogen from the living organisms back into the atmosphere, what is it? 

What is Denitrification?

400

What are these elements (C, H, O, N, P, S)? 

What is the six basic elements of life? 

What is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur? 

500

An Apex Predator is also known as a what? 

What is a Tertiary Consumer? 

500

What is the difference between competition and predation?

What is in competition, individuals seek to obtain the same environmental resource. In predation, one population is the resource of the other. 

Predation describes a specific type of competition in which a predator consumes its prey.

500

When would you use a food chain vs a food web? 

What is if you are trying to understand the flow of energy through trophic levels, you might want to look at a food chain; however, if you are trying to understand the way animals interact and connect through an ecosystem, a food web is more helpful? 

500

The chemical processes by which atmospheric nitrogen is assimilated into organic compounds, especially by certain microorganisms as part of the nitrogen cycle is known as?


What is Nitrogen Fixation? 

500

RIDDLE!!! 

You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?

What is a telephone/cellphone? 

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