Ecosystems Jeopardy

Ecosystems 1

100

An organism that eats meat

What is a Carnivore

200

something that eats to survive

What is a consumer?

300

Nonliving components

Abiotic

400

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

What is an ecosystem?

500

A living thing (species) that is not normally found in the ecosystem

invasive species

Ecosystems 2

100

An organism that uses sunlight to create its food

What is a producer 

200

An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms Ex. vulture

What are scavengers?

300

Any living thing breaks down the dead remains of organisms

What is a decomposer?

400

On the pyramid what is the organism that eats only the producer called

What are herbivores?

500

One single organism in an ecosystem is called what?

an individual

Ecosystems 3

100

any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater

What is a herbivore?

200

Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy

What is photosynthesis?

300

single path of energy flow

Food chain

400

living and nonliving things are parts that make this.

What are ecosystems?

500

Multiple paths of energy flow

Food web

Ecosystems 4

100

any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals

What is an omnivore?

200

In a food web the mushroom and  bacteria are....

What are decomposers?

300

Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem

What is a food web?

400

Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...

What is biotic?

500

Organism that eats only meat

carnivore

Ecosystems 5

100

Too many of a specific species

Overpopulation

200

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

What is a food chain?

300

At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called

What are producers

400

Plants give us food and _________

Oxygen

500

Plants give off this gas that we need to survive.

What is oxygen?

Ecosystems 6

100

We give plants __________ to make their own food

Carbon dioxide

200

What is an organism that only eats plants

what is a herbivore?

300

Which ecosystem covers most of the Earth's surface?

ocean

400

An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....

What is a habitat?

500

An organism in a food chain that eats mostly herbivores.

Carnivores 

Ecosystems 7

100

Many of the same species is a...

What is a population?

200

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

What is are abiotic factors?

300

The arrows in a food chain represent

Where the energy goes or to the eater

400

All the populations living in one place ?

What is Community?

500

If the hypothesis is tested often enough, the scientific community calls the hypothesis a _________.

What is a theory?