Living Things
Populations
Energy Flow
Interactions
Cycles and Changes
100
This term refers to a living thing.
What is an organism?
100
Food, water, light, weather, space, and soil are all examples of these.
What are limiting factors?
100
This is an organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
100
This is a relationship in which both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
100
These are the processes that make up the water cycle.
What are precipitation, condensation, and evaporation?
200
This is the study of living things and how they interact with their environment.
What is ecology?
200
START OVER WITH ZERO POINTS! The largest population an area can support is called this.
What is carrying capacity?
200
START OVER AT ZERO POINTS! This is an organism that eats dead bodies of other organisms.
What is a scavenger?
200
DAILY DOUBLE! This is a relationship in which one species is harmed and one benefits.
What is parasitism?
200
These natural events could disrupt and/or cause damage to ecosytems.
What are hurricanes, tornadoes, and fires?
300
DAILY DOUBLE! A community of organisms along with the abiotic factors in the environment form this.
What is an ecosystem?
300
This word means leaving a population.
What is emigration?
300
STARTMOVER AT ZERO POINTS! This is an organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
300
TRIPLE YOUR SCORE! This is a relationship in which one species eats another species.
What is predation?
300
TRIPLE YOUR SCORE! This is the level of the energy pyramid that contains the most energy.
What is the producer level?
400
A group of organisms that are physically similar and are able to reproduce are called this.
What is a species?
400
DAILY DOUBLE! This is the most commong way new members join a population.
What is by being born?
400
This is an organisms that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
400
SKIP YOUR TURN! This is the term that refers to a species that eats other species.
What is a predator?
400
These include water, sunlight, oxygen, temperature, and soil.
What are abiotic factors?
500
The living parts of an ecosystem are known as these.
What are biotic factors?
500
If the death rate exceeds the birth rate, this will happen.
What is the population will decrease?
500
SKIP YOUR TURN! This is a series of events in which one organism eats another to obtain energy.
What is a food chain?
500
This is the term that refers to the organism that benefits from a host.
What is a parasite?
500
Examples of these include mimcry, warning coloring, camouflage, and false coloring.
What are adaptations?
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