Biodiversity
Trophic Levels
Ecosystem Interactions
Miscellaneous
Environment Interactions
100

Name one threat to biodiversity. 1 point if you can name another.

habitat loss, pollution, overexploitation, and invasive species are acceptable answers.

100

What trophic level would have the highest concentration of toxins? 1 extra points if you can tell me the number? 

Secondary consumer( 80k)

100

The starfish eats the barnacles off of the whale's back. What type of symbiosis is this? 

What is Mutualism? Both animals benefit. Starfish is getting energy from the foo( barnacles) and the whale is benefiting by preventing the disease the barnacles have.

100
What are the main causes of death rates between organisms? 

Accidents, diseases, predation, nutrient availability. 

ADPN

100

The other opponent; come up with a question about a deer that pertains to the survivorship curve. 

200

 A lion hunting a zebra

What is predator-prey/ Predatioin 

200

What is an example of an ecological population?

Zebras running in the Savannah
200
How does energy flow in an ecosystem?

Moving one way and eventually getting lost in the ecosystem describes the way energy flows in an ecosystem.

200

What are the causes of the birth rates?

How many they are having each time they reproduce

Population age structure 

Age of the reproductive episode; the age of the first reproductive cycle 

family planning and women's education

200
What is not a considered a greenhouse gas?

hydrogen? 

300

What does isolating species of animals do to biodiversity?  

Extinction, and endangerment

300

In a typical prairie food web energy moves from the grasshopper to the field mouse to the fox. Which is the secondary, tertiary and the primary[ consumer?

Secondary Consumer: Field mouse 

Tertiary: Fox 

Primary: Grasshopper

300

What is provisional service and what are some examples?

Products obtained from ecosystems

Examples: food, freshwater, raw materials, like wood fuel

300

What is the rule for determining the consumer price index? 

When you move up a trophic level, you annex the 0 to go down a level ( divide by 10) or add a 0 ( multiplying by ten) to go up a level

300

What type of enivronment( rainforests for example) is slowly expanding?

The Dessert

400

A colony of penguins live on an iceberg. What biodiversity component is this?( Community, Species or Popullation? 

What is Population?  All of the same kind of animal live in the same area. 

400

What kind of chemicals magnify as it moves up the foodchain? 

What are fat soluble chemicals? 

400

Two lions are fighting for the same resources, what kind of interaction is this?

compeition, two of the same species are fighting for the same limited resources. 

( TEST Question: Why is it not predatory.prey or Competition) 

400

Recreation is what kind of support for the earth? 

Cultural Support

400

how many species have named and classified?

1.7 million

500

What does it mean when you study an amount of variation between a species?

Genetic Diversity

500

What kind of survivorship curve would the following scenario be?

Population of captive gorillas in a zoo.

Type 1 Survivorship curve 

( Explanation: Because they have fewer numbers of offspring.)

500

An orchid grows on trees What kind of ecosystem interaction is this( mutualism, or parasitism)

Commensalism 

Explanation: orchids gain access to sunlight and tree is not affected, and it doesn't bother the tree.

500

What affect do keystones species have on an ecosystem?

maintains the biodiversity of an ecosystem, influencing the abundance the species has, and stops extinctions and overexploitation of species.