Ecosystems Jeopardy

Ecosystems 1

100

1 100%, 10%, 1%, 0.1%

What is the percentage of energy at each trophic level?

200

The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)

What is an ecosystem?

300

This trophic level represents when an organism eats a producer. 

What is a primary consumer? (Level 2) 

400

something that eats something else for food

What is a consumer?

500

An organism that eats secondary consumers. 

What is a tertiary consumer. 

Ecosystems 2

100

A group of different species living in the same area

What is a community?

200

An organism in a food chain that eats the organisms which eat the producers. 

What is secondary consumer?

300

The directions of the arrows show...

What is energy flow?

400

An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms

What are decomposers?

500

An organism that uses sunlight to create its food

What is a producer 

Ecosystems 3

100

bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs

What are some examples of decomposers?

200

Food chains that are interconnected/overlap in a particular ecosystem

What is a food web?

300

A single self-contained living thing

What is an organism?

400

the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)

What is a food chain?

500

The order of "what eats what" for a specific set of organisms. It is linear. 

What is a food chain? 

Ecosystems 4

100

algae, elm tree, grass are all examples of what?

What are producers?

200

Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...

What is biotic?

300

The amount of energy transferred to each subsequent trophic level in a food web

What is 10%?

400

plants, animals, bacteria, fungi are examples of this type of factor in an ecosystem

What are biotic factors?

500

The organisms at the bottom of the food pyramid are called this...

What are producers?

Ecosystems 5

100

Plants added this abiotic factor to the environment that made animal life possible.

What is oxygen?

200

An organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area.

What is an invasive species?

300

When more than one individual or population in an ecosystem relies on the same limited resource.

What is competition?

400

Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy

What is photosynthesis?

500

Air, water, and the sun are all ......

What are abiotic factors?

Ecosystems 6

100

phytoplankton -> minnow -> tuna -> shark

This is an example of a...

What is a food chain? 

200

Percent energy that is transferred from organism to organism

What is 10%?

300

The source of energy that is absorbed by plants for photosynthesis. 

What is sunlight? 

400

O₂

What is oxygen? 

500

CO₂

What is Carbon Dioxide? 

Ecosystems 7

100

C₆H₁₂O₆ is...

Glucose (Sugar)

200

Something that is needed by an organism and is not infinite in it's abundance in an ecosystem; once exhausted, the organisms that need it cannot survive

What is a limited resource? 

300

A group of interacting individuals of the same species located in the same area.

What is a population? 

400

A dependent interaction is defined as this

What is when an organism depends on a factor for survival in an ecosystem?

500

Complex web made of many food chains within the ecosystem

what is a food web