Transcript Populations Grab bag Habitat/Niche Interactions In Communities

Ecology
Jeopardy
Ch 5 and 6
Populations Environmental
Issues
Interactions
Habitat/Niche
Grab bag
In
Communities
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Category 1 for 1
Question: The number of
individuals of one species that a
certain area can support is
known as the _______
____________.
Check Your Answer
Category 1 for 1
Answer: carrying
capacity
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Category 1 for 2
Question: Name two factors
that make a population
increase.
Check Your Answer
Category 1 for 2
Answer: births and immigration
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Category 1 for 3
Question: Which of the following are
density-independent factors?
a) a wildfire
b) a heat wave
c) a contagious disease
d) food
Check Your Answer
Category 1 for 3
Answer: wildfire and heat
wave (choices a and b)
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Category 1 for 4
Question: What are the two shapes
of population graphs we studied in
this unit? What is the name for
each?
Check Your Answer
Category 1 for 4
Answer: J (exponential) and
S (logistic)
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Category 1 for 5
Name two ways that technology
has contributed to the human
population growing
exponentially.
Check Your Answer
Category 1 for 5
Answer: improvements in medicine such as
vaccines and antibiotics, and gas-powered
farm equipment
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Category 2 for 1
Question: What are two of the
major greenhouse gases?
Check Your Answer
Category 2 for 1
Answer: carbon
dioxide, methane, and
water vapor
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Daily Double for 4!
Question: In the formation of acid
rain, ______ is burned, releasing
_________, which forms sulfuric
acid in the atmosphere.
Check Your Answer
Category 2 for 4
Answer: coal is burned,
sulfur is released
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Category 2 for 3
Question: Name an indicator species.
Why is it considered an indicator
species?
Check Your Answer
Category 2 for 3
Answer: frogs, because
their thin skin absorbs
water (and pollutants)
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Question: What are the two
major components of smog?
Check Your Answer
Category 2 for 8
Answer: ground level ozone and
particulates
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Category 2 for 5
Question: What is the name
for the process by which toxic
substances become more
concentrated in organisms
higher on the food chain?
Check Your Answer
Category 2 for 5
Answer: biomagnification
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Category 3 for 1
Question: Give an example of
interspecific competition in the
prairie.
Check Your Answer
Category 3 for 1
Answer: a ferret and a
coyote competing for
prairie dogs.
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Category 3 for 2
Question: The relationship
between a honeybee and a
flower is best described as:
Check Your Answer
Category 3 for 2
Answer: Mutualism
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Daily Double for 6!
Question: Name the relationships
shown by the following:
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++0
Check Your Answer
Category 3 for 6
Answer:
+ + = Mutualism
+ - = Parasitism or
Predation
+ 0 = Commensalism
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Category 3 for 4
Question: How do toxins in
milkweed plants benefit
monarch butterflies?
Check Your Answer
Category 3 for 4
Answer: They make the butterflies
distasteful to birds.
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Category 3 for 5
Question: A black rhinoceros grazes on
the African plains. As it forages, the rhino
disturbs multitudes of insects in the
grass. Birds known as egrets forage on
the ground near the rhino, eating insects
flushed out by the hooves. Name 2
different types of interactions in this
example.
Check Your Answer
Category 3 for 5
Answer: Predation = rhino and grasses,
birds and insects. Commensalism = birds
and rhino
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Category 4 for 1
Q: Earthworms aerate the soil by tunneling
through it. They also enrich soil by adding
their waste. They are efficient decomposers.
This best describes the earthworm’s:
a) Habitat
b) Niche
c) Footprint
d) Limiting factors
Check Your Answer
Category 4 for 1
Answer: (b) niche
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Category 4 for 2
Question: Name 2 differences
between predators and
parasites.
Check Your Answer
Category 4 for 2
Answer: Predators are larger,
and kill their prey. Parasites are
small, and usually don’t kill their
prey.
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Daily Double for 6
Question:
The colored
areas are
showing the
_____ niche.
Check Your Answer
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Answer:
realized
niche
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Category 4 for 4
Question: Which
species has the larger
fundamental niche?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) The same
Check Your Answer
Category 4 for 4
Answer:
a) B
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Category 4 for 5
Question: The
blue, larger
paramecium is
outcompeted.
This is called
______ _______
Check Your Answer
Category 4 for 5
Answer: competitive exclusion
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Category 5 for 1
Question: Name 2
non-renewable resources.
Check Your Answer
Category 5 for 1
Answer: coal and oil
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Category 5 for 2
Question: Name 2 invasive (or
introduced) species.
Check Your Answer
Category 5 for 2
Answer: Zebra mussels in the
Great Lakes, kudzu in the
South, rabbits in Australia,
pythons in the Everglades, mice
in Australia
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Category 5 for 3
Question: Which are populations?
(a) All the animals in a zoo
(b) All the dogs in an animal shelter
(c) All the mosquitoes around a lake
(d) Both b and c
(e) a, b, and c
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Category 5 for 3
Answer: (d) both b and c
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Category 5 for 4
Question: What are four ways you could
decrease your ecological footprint?
Check Your Answer
Category 5 for 4
Answer: carpool or public transportation,
conserve energy around the home,
eat foods produced locally,
recycle more/produce less trash
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Category 5 for 5
Question: What is the pH of
normal rain?
Check Your Answer
Category 5 for 5
Answer: around 5.6
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