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Vocabulary
Random/ 500 question is the FINAL JEOPARDY
100
The four basic needs for all living organisms.
What is food, shelter/habitat, air, water?
100
Name the 3 Rs.
What is reduce, reuse, and recycle?
100

This term is used to describe living (or once living) parts of ecosystems.

What is biotic?

100
Define habitat.
What is shelter?
100
Describe an adaptation of any animal.
Answers may vary. Example: Polar Bears: Thick skin to help them keep warm
200
The term that is used to describe two different species that live closely together in a relationship that lasts over time.
What is Symbiosis?
200

We discussed 3 different things humans have introduced to the environment that bioaccumulate. Name 1. 

DDT

Microplastics

Mercury

200

The term used to describe organisms that eat the food made by producers.

What is a consumer?

200

What is the difference between an omnivore and a producer?

Producer - uses sunlight to make food

Omnivore - eats producers and consumers

200
Define predator.
What is an organism that naturally hunts prey.
300
The term used to describe a type of symbiosis in which one benefits and the other is harmed.
What is Parasitism?
300

Give an example of a natural resource.

What is water/oil/crops/minerals/fish/wildlife/coal?

300

Give an example of a food chain with at least 4 organisms involved.

Answers may vary. Example: Grass----->mouse----->snake------>hawk------->eagle

300

Define Biomagnification. DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!! How much would you like to wager?

The increase in concentration of a substance at successively higher levels of a FOOD CHAIN or FOOD WEB.  

300
Describe the two different participants in parasitism.
What is the parasite and the host?
400
This term describes the type of symbiosis in which one is benefiting and one doesn't care.
What is commensalism?
400

This term is used to describe the process of a certain species changing in order to adjust to it's surroundings.

What is adaptation?

400
The term used to describe an organism that breaks down the cells of dead or waste materials and absorb their nutrients.
What is a decomposer?
400
Define: Bioaccumilation
What is the accumulation of chemicals in an organism?
400
Define producer.
What is an organism that creates its own food?
500

THIS is the process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time.

Ecological Succession

500

This term describes the negative impact a person has on the earth (hint - what do people leave behind on the beach)?

What is an ecological footprint?

500
What is another word for Apex Predator

Tertiary Consumer

500

What is the term used to describe the using of resources no faster than they can be renewed and discharging waste no more quickly than they can be absorbed.

What is Sustainibility?

500

Define: Pioneer Species and give at least 1 example/FINAL JEOPARDY!!!!!

the first species to colonize new or disturbed habitats - includes mosses, lichens and some herbs/grasses.

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