Interactions of Living Things

Interactions of Living Things

5 Levels Energy Water cycle Symbiosis Variety

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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from 5 Levels

Which level contains all of the communities and abiotic factors?

$100 Answer from 5 Levels

Ecosystem

$200 Question from 5 Levels

Arrange the 5 levels of Environmental Organization in order from the smallest piece to the largest piece: (population, ecosystem, biosphere, organism, community)

$200 Answer from 5 Levels

Organism

Population

Community

Ecosystem

Biosphere

$300 Question from 5 Levels

If a kestrel eats a mouse the eats grass The kestrel is a .

$300 Answer from 5 LevelsA Second level consumer

$400 Question from 5 Levels

Give two examples of how abiotic factors can affect an ecosystem.

$400 Answer from 5 Levels

Answers will vary…need teacher approval

$500 Question from 5 Levels

Draw a picture of a population of organisms in a pond ecosystem.

$500 Answer from 5 Levels

Sketch should include a groupof individuals of the same species.

$100 Question from Energy

Arrange the following levels in order (bottom to top): primaryconsumer, producer, tertiary consumer, secondary consumer

$100 Answer from Energy

Tertiary consumerSecondary consumerPrimary ConsumerProducer

$200 Question from Energy

What would you call a turkey vulture that eats some of a coyote’s leftovers?

$200 Answer from Energy

Scavenger

$300 Question from Energy

What happens to the amount of energy available as you move down in an energy pyramid?

$300 Answer from Energy

Energy available increases.If you said it increases by a power of 10 you will receive an additional 50 points!

$400 Question from Energy

What type of consumer would the fox be considered if it ate the rabbit?

$400 Answer from Energy

Secondary Consumer

$500 Question from Energy

30 units

How many units of energy would be available at the secondary consumer level?

$500 Answer from Energy300 units

30 units

300 units

3000 units

30,000 units

$100 Question from Water cycle

All the following are examples of precipitation EXCEPT?

RainSnowGroundwaterHail

$100 Answer from Water Cycle

Groundwater

$200 Question from water cycle

The process in which water vapor turns into a liquid is called__________.

$200 Answer from water cycle

condensation

$300 Question from water cycle

The process in which water vapor exitsA plant through its leaves is called?

$300 Answer from water cycle

TRANSPIRATION

$400 Question from water cycle

When water stays in an area of the cycle for a time period it is called…….Example- water staying it the ocean, or staying in a glacier….

$400 Answer from water cycle

COLLECTION

$500 Question from water cycle

Why would the rodent population increase from 1988 to 1994? (Use predator, prey, and population in your statement)

$500 Answer from water cycle

The prey population increases as the number of predators decrease.

$100 Question from Symbiosis

Name the 3 types of symbioticrelationships.

$100 Answer from Symbiosis

MutualismCommensalismParasitism

$200 Question from SymbiosisIf “+” equals benefitIf “-” equals harmed If “0” equals unaffected

What two symbols would youuse to describe organisms in a mutualistic, commensalistic, and parasitic relationship?

$200 Answer from Symbiosis

Mutualism (+, +)Commensalism (+, 0)Parasitism (+, -)

$300 Question from SymbiosisA Blue Grey Gnatcatcher makesa nest for its young. The cowbird places its young in the nest of the Gnatcatcher. The Gnatcatcher takes care of the young, but ends up losingits own in the process. What type of symbiotic relationship exists betweenthese two species?

$300 Answer from SymbiosisParasitism

$400 Question from SymbiosisAcacia ants live on the bull-horn acacia tree, which providesthe ants with food and shelter. The ants deter grazing animalsfrom eating the tree. What typeof symbiotic relationship existsbetween these two populationsof organisms?

$400 Answer from SymbiosisMutualism

$500 Question from Symbiosis

What do you call a long termchange that takes place in two species because of their closeinteraction with one another?

$500 Answer from Symbiosis

coevolution

$100 Question from VarietyIdentify two other names for a tertiary consumer.

$100 Answer from Variety

carnivore, top-level consumer, 3rd order heterotroph

$200 Question from Variety

Why do farmers fear 2nd and3rd order heterotrophs?

$200 Answer from VarietyThey eat their livestock!

$300 Question from VarietyList 3 natural occurrences that can lead to an immediate decrease in a population.

$300 Answer from VarietyForest Fire, Hurricane, Tornado, Drought, Volcano

$400 Question from Variety

Name two ways that humanscan control a population of organisms that is continuouslygrowing.

$400 Answer from VarietyHunting, Relocating, IntroducingDisease

$500 Question from VarietyHow can saving a top-levelconsumer save an ecosystem?

$500 Answer from VarietyWithout a top level consumer, the producers will

continue to decrease and lead to a decrease in a number

of primary consumers (lack of food and shelter).

Final JeopardyWhat would happen if a new species was introduced to an ecosystem and it had no predators?

Final Jeopardy AnswerThe population would grow out of control!