Math Jeopardy

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Levels of Organzation
Energy
Ecosystems
Biomes
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Smallest level of organization
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What is a species or individual?
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Two groups of different species living in the
same area at the same time
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What is a community?
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Group of individuals of the same species living
in the same area at the same time
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What is a population?
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All of the living species in an area interacting
with the non-living environment
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What is an ecosystem?
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Area on land that shares a similar climate,
soil condition and dominant type of vegetation
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What is a biome?
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An organism that must consume plants or
animals to obtain energy
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What is are consumers or heterotrophs?
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An organism that uses sunlight or chemicals to
make organic compounds from inorganic compounds
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What is a producer or autotroph?
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An organisms feeding level in an ecosystem
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What is a trophic level?
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Diagram that demonstrates the number of
individuals in each trophic level
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What a pyramid of numbers?
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A diagram that demonstrates the amount of living
tissue in each trophic level
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What is a biomass pyramid?
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The biological and physical role of an organism
in its environment
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What is niche?
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A relationship in which one organism benefits
from another organism and that organism is
neither harmed nor helped
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What is commensalism?
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The process that occurs when a new community
develops in an area that has not previously
supported life and has no soil

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What is primary succession?
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Process of replacing a community in an area
where a community has been destroyed but soil
remains
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What is secondary succession?

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Typically the first organism to populate an
area that has no soil
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What is a lichen?
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A biome characterized by a warm climate, large
amounts of rain and sunlight and has a high
biodiversity
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What is a tropical rain forest?
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A biome that receives less than 25 cm of rain
each year, has warm temperatures during the day
and cold temperatures at night
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What is desert?
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A biome characterized by coniferous trees, long,
cold winters and summers that allow the ground to
thaw. This biome is NOT found in the continental
U.S.
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What is the boreal forest or taiga?
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A biome characterized by low growing
vegetation and a layer of permafrost
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What is the tundra?
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A biome that is dominated by grass found in
the U.S.
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What is the temperate grassland?
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The movement of individuals into a population
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What is immigration?
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The movement of individuals out of a population
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What is emigration?
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The chemical cycle that involves
photosynthesis and cellular respiration
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What is the carbon cycle?
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The chemical cycle that involves a chemical being
extracted from the atmosphere by bacteria
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What is the nitrogen cycle?
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The chemical cycle that involves a chemical that
is released from rock and is needed to make DNA
and RNA
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What is the phosphorous cycle?