Parts of an Ecosystem
Energy Flow
Nutrient Cycling
Limiting Factors
Human Impact
100
The term to refer to the non-living part of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
100
The name of organisms like plants that form the base of food chains.
What are producers?
100
The name of organisms that get their food by consuming waste and dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
100
Any organism that exists by hunting other organisms.
What are predators?
100

The main contributor to climate change.

What is increased carbon in the atmosphere?
200
The term that refers to the living part of an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
200
The process by which plants capture the sun's energy and turn it into glucose (food).
What is photosynthesis?
200

The series of processes that moves water through the environment.

What is the water cycle? (Bonus 100 points if you walk us through this cycle with different examples)

200
The maximum population size of a species that a given ecosystem can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
200
A non-native species that has a negative impact on the natural environment?
What is an invasive species?
300
The term for a land based ecosystem.
What is terrestrial?
300

The process by which consumers get energy. (Hint: Marley eats plants in order to do this!)

What is cellular respiration?

300

The series of processes that moves carbon compounds throughout the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere.

What is the carbon cycle? (Bonus 100 points if you walk us through the cycle and show examples)

300

Bird nests in trees is an example of this biotic limiting factor.

What is commensalism?

300
An invasive species that was introduced to a new ecosystem on purpose.

What is the Kudzu vine, beaver in Argentina, rabbits in Australia, etc. (any of these will do!)

400
The 3 categories all living things in an ecosystem can be placed in.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
400

The origin for all energy in a ecological food chain/web

What is the Sun?

400

This elemental nutrient makes up 78% of our atmosphere and is important for healthy soil and plant growth.

What is nitrogen?

400

This is an example of an important abiotic limiting factor in aquatic ecosystems.

What is temperature, oxygen level, pH level, turbidity, flow rate, etc. (any one of these will do!)

400

An animal that is currently considered a species at risk

What is polar bear, wolverine, woodland caribou, bison, etc.? (any of these will do!)

500
Name 3 abiotic parts of the Arctic ecosystem.
What are light, weather, and soil?
500

A graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.

What is a food web?

500
Mr. James stresses the importance of doing this when throwing out our single-use water bottles 

What is dumping out the water/liquid contents?

500

An abiotic factor that plants compete with each other for.

What is light/water availability?

500

The word for the responsibility for managing and protecting the environment 

What is environmental stewardship?

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