Successful at Succession?
Biodiversity or Bust
Food Webs
Vocab.
Beware
100

Birds and whales in this image are considered a _______ factor

What is a biotic factor?

100

An ecosystem with __________ biodiversity would be more resistant to disease and/or resource shortages?

What is high biodiversity?

100

The type of organism that can be found at the start of a food chain.

What is a producer?

100

The name of the species that is first to move into an area and begin to form soil and nutrients for an ecosystem

What is a pioneer species?

100

Pumpkins are considered to be a fruit or vegetable?

What is a fruit?

200

This important factor is present initially/at the beginning of secondary succession.

What is soil?

200

Monoculture agriculture has this effect on biodiversity? 

(posivite or negative)

What is a negative effect?

200

The percentage of energy lost as you move up each level of the energy pyramid?

What is 90%?

200

This type of organism's energy source is non-living. It is typically in the form of chemicals or photons of light.

What is a producer?

200

This famous magician died on October 31, 1926

Who is Harry Houdini?


300

Trick or Treat?


Treat! 

Steal 200 pts from the team of your choosing!

300

Which community has the highest biodiversity?

What is community C?

300

Trick or Treat?

TRICK!

Trade points with the lowest scoring team!

300

__________ is reached at the end of succession when an ecosystem is stabilized

What is a climax community?

300
The flower used as decoration to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos?

What is the marigold?

400

The type of succession shown in this image: 

What is primary succession

400

Since 1937, globally biodiversity and the wilderness spaces have been ___________________.

What is decreasing?

400

Because the hawk eats the shrew, it is considered this type of consumer.

What is a tertiary consumer?

400

What does "auto-" and "hetero-" mean from autotroph and heterotroph?

auto-: self

hetero-: other

400

Trick or Treat?


Trick! Double your points if you get it right... or lose them all if you get it wrong!

Who directed the film, The Nightmare Before Christmas?

500

When a lumber company deforested and plowed a forest to harvest lumber to develop a new city, this would be the type of succession that would result after the lumber company left

What is secondary succession?

500

Name at least two things that result in loss of biodiversity:

What is _______? (will be verified by teacher)

500


Because the grass contains 23,000 calories. The mountain lion would contain ________ calories.

What is 23 calories?

500

Trick or Treat?


Explain where you would find the trophic levels on a biomass pyramid.

Treat! 

Extra 100 points!

500

In the show, Its the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown... Charlie Brown only receives this while trick or treating?


What is a rock?