Vocab
ulary
Food Chains
Food Webs
Potpourri
100
A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
What is a food web?
100
Each step in a food chain or food web
What is a trophic level?
100
This organism is a secondary consumer.
What is the snake?
100
Classroom awareness Question
Teacher Discretion
100
Who are Beaker and Bunsen?
200
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
What is a consumer/ heterotroph?
200
An organism that makes its own food
What is a producer/ autotroph?
200
This organism is in the third trophic level.
What is the snake?
200
Name two examples of producers.
Teacher discretion.
200
SNL's musical guest on Nov. 2nd beckons listeners to "make it hot" like this fast food pizza chain.
What is Papa Johns?
300
Species such as kudzu or the Joro spider that are not native to Athens are considered this.
What is an invasive species?
300
Wolves disappeared from Yellowstone and had a large impact on all of the organisms in the ecosystem. In this example, Wolves are considered this type of species.
What are keystone species?
300
True or false: Heterotrophs can survive without autotrophs.
False.
300
Tertiary consumers eat these organisms.
What are heterotrophs or secondary consumers?
300
The NYC Marathon happens each year, taking runners through all five of the NYC boroughs. Name each borough for 300 pts each.
Staten Island, The Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn
400
A species that has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem
What is a keystone species?
400
A consumer that eats only plants
What is an herbivore?
400
True or false: All animals are consumers.
True
400
An autotroph will always be found at this tropic level.
What is the first trophic level?
400
Your name is Riley Anderson. You experience Anger, Sadness, Fear, Joy, and Disgust in 2015. What emotions might you experience in the year 2024?
200 pts. per emotion
What are Anxiety, Envy, Embarrassment, Ennui?
500
This happens when we remove a keystone species from a food web and it impacts all of the trophic levels below it.
What is a trophic cascade?
500
A species that has been identified to be in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant part of its range.
What is an endangered species?
500
This percentage of energy is passed from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
500
True or False: As the biodiversity of an ecosystem increases so does its resilience.
True
500
200 pts. for each person on your team that returned their field trip permission slip.
Teacher discretion.