Unit 1 Jeopardy Vocab Basics Cycles Biomes pot

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$100 Question from Vocab the scientific study of interactions between different organisms and between organisms and their environment or surroundings A. Evolution B. Biology C. Ecology D. Ecosystem

$100 Answer from Vocab C. Ecology

$200 Question from Vocab non-living factors that influence an ecosystem and an organisms life A. B. C. D. A-biotic Biotic Organic Terrestrial

$200 Answer from Vocab A. A-biotic

$300 Question from Vocab The portion of Earth that supports life. A. B. C. D. Biome Biosphere Ecosystem Habitat

$300 Answer from Vocab B. Biosphere

$400 Question from Vocab the role that an organism has in an ecosystem A. Habitat B. Niche C. Biome D. Community

$400 Answer from Vocab B. Niche

$500 Question from Vocab When one member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed. A. Mutualism B. Parasitism C. Symbiosis D. Commensalism

$500 Answer from Vocab D. Commensalism

$100 Question from Basics What forms the base of an ecosystem? A. Heterotrophs B. Energy C. Tertiary consumers D. Biotic factors

$100 Answer from Basics B. Energy

$200 Question from Basics When an animal leaves a territory for another. A. Emmigration B. Immigration C. Adaptation D. Evolution

$200 Answer from Basics A. Emmigration

$300 Question from Basics The ecological relationship between a hawk and a rabbit is the same type of relationship as that between A. a tick and a deer. B. a frog and an insect. C. a mouse and a chipmunk. D. a bee and a flowering plant.

$300 Answer from Basics B. a frog and an insect.

$400 Question from Basics In which of the following ways do producers in an ecosystem obtain energy? A. by consuming other producers B. by living parasitically on animals C. by using sunlight to make sugars D. by breaking down dead organisms

$400 Answer from Basics C. by using sunlight to make sugars

$500 Question from Basics A group of organisms, all of the same species, which interbreed and live in the same place at the same time. A. Community B. Ecosystem C. Habitat D. Population

$500 Answer from Basics D. Population

$100 Question from Cycles Process by which water rises into the atmosphere, cools and becomes a liquid again A. Condensation A. Precipitation B. Transcription C. Transpiration

$100 Answer from Cycles A. Condensation

$200 Question from Cycles A student set up a terrarium, watered the soil, and covered the terrarium tightly with a lid. The next day, the student observed water droplets on the inside of the lid. The droplets provide evidence that which of the following steps of the water cycle had occurred in the terrarium? A. runoff and evaporation B. precipitation and runoff C. evaporation and condensation D. condensation and precipitation

$200 Answer from Cycles C. evaporation and condensation

$300 Question from Cycles The atmosphere contains about 80% nitrogen gas, but nitrogen in this form cannot be used by plants. Which of the following processes converts atmospheric nitrogen to a useful form for plants? A. nitrogen decomposition B. nitrogen fixation C. photosynthesis D. transpiration

$300 Answer from Cycles B. Nitrogen Fixation

$400 Question from Cycles In the past 100 years, levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have increased as the result of the burning of fossil fuels. Other processes in the carbon cycle have absorbed some of the carbon released by this combustion. Which of the following most likely have absorbed excess carbon released by combustion? A. animals B. glaciers C. plants D. rocks

$400 Answer from Cycles C. Plants

$500 Question from Cycles Cellular respiration, decomposition, combustion, and photosynthesis are processes that drive which of the following cycles in ecosystems? A. the carbon cycle B. the nitrogen cycle C. the phosphorus cycle D. the water cycle

$500 Answer from Cycles A. The Carbon cycle

$100 Question from Biomes The largest geographic biotic unit, a major community of plants and animals with similar life forms and environmental conditions. A. Biosphere B. Biome C. Habitat D. Ecosystem

$100 Answer from Biomes B. Biome

$200 Question from Biomes Which of the following is not a terrestrial biome? A. Taiga B. Savannah C. Tropical Rain Forest D. Coral Reef

$200 Answer from Biomes D. Coral Reef

$300 Question from Biomes As many as 50% of all the world’s animal species may be found in this biome. A. Desert B. Grassland C. Tropical Savannah D. Tropical Rain Forest

$300 Answer from Biomes D. Tropical Rain forest

$400 Question from Biomes This Biome is found on the west coast of continents and is extremely resistant to drought and weather events A. Temperate Deciduous Forest B. Chaparral C. Grassland D. Temperate Boreal Forest

$400 Answer from Biomes B. Chaparral

$500 Question from Biomes This Biome is home to treeless or marshy plain. Characterized by permafrost – permanently frozen soil starting as high as a few centimeters below the surface – which severely limits plant growth. A. Temperate Boreal Forest B. Tundra C. Chaparral D. Grassland

$500 Answer from Biomes B. Tundra.

$100 Question from pot luck The process of evaporation from plant leaves A. Transpiration B. Run off C. Condensation D. Fog

$100 Answer from pot luck A. Transpiration

$200 Question from pot luck Which of the following roles do nitrogen-fixing bacteria serve in the nitrogen cycle? A. They concentrate nitrogen in the atmosphere. B. They absorb nitrogen from the wastes of animals. C. They convert nitrogen into a form that plants can use. D. They release nitrogen from the bodies of decaying organisms

$200 Answer from pot luck C. They convert nitrogen into a form that plants can use.

$300 Question from pot luck Which of the following best explains why tropical insects may be at greater risk for extinction from global warming than insects from higher latitudes? A. Many tropical insects lay eggs year-round. B. Tropical insects include more pollinator species. C. Many tropical insects are herbivores rather than carnivores. D. Tropical insects have narrower ranges of tolerance for temperature changes.

$300 Answer from pot luck D. Tropical insects have narrower ranges of tolerance for temperature changes.

$400 Question from pot luck In traditional landscaping, leaves are raked off the ground and bagged. In which of the following ways does this practice most significantly disrupt natural nutrient cycling? A. It carries away microorganisms that can perform nitrogen fixation. B. It reduces the rate of oxygen and carbon cycling via photosynthesis. C. It prevents carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen from being returned to the soil. D. It increases the amount of carbon dioxide that is released to the atmosphere

$400 Answer from pot luck C. It prevents carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen from being returned to the soil.

$500 Question from pot luck All the populations of different species that live in the same place at the same time. A. Community B. Ecosystem C. Niche D. Biosphere

$500 Answer from pot luck A. Community