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A: APES Intro, Environmental Laws & Risk
B: Biogeochemical
Cycles
C Energy Flow in Ecosystems
D: Adaptations & Species
Interactions
E: Biomes
Final Jeopardy
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©Norman Herr, 2003
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A-100
• ANSWER: Depletion of potentially renewable resources to which people have free and unmanaged access.
• QUESTION: What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
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A-200
• ANSWER: The increase in concentration of a chemical in organisms at successively higher tropic levels of a food chain or web
• QUESTION: What is biomagnification?
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A-300
• ANSWER: The median lethal dose of a toxic material per unit of body weight of test animals that kills half the test population.
• QUESTION: What is LD50?
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A-400
• ANSWER: Energy can be converted from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed
• QUESTION: What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
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A-500
• ANSWER: When there is uncertainty about the potential harm from chemicals, technology or decisions, people making decisions should act to prevent the harm from occurring.
• QUESTION: What is the Precautionary Principle?
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• ANSWER: Process in which water vapor cools and condenses into liquid or solid form.
• QUESTION: What is condensation?
B-100
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B-200
• ANSWER: A biotic process that removes carbon from the atmosphere.
• QUESTION: What is photosynthesis?
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B-300
• ANSWER: The process in which soil bacteria convert N2 from the atmosphere into ammonia, from a form plants cannot use to a form plants can use.
• QUESTION: What is nitrogen fixation?
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B-400
• ANSWER: This cycle shows how its element moves through plants, soil, water and rocks, but not through the atmosphere.
• QUESTION: What is the phosphorus cycle?
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B-500
• ANSWER: This cycle shows how its element naturally enters the atmosphere through volcanic action, fires, dust storms and from algae activity.
• QUESTION: What is the sulfur cycle?
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C-100
• ANSWER: Feeding levels of organisms within a food chain or web
• QUESTION: What are trophic levels?
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C-200
• ANSWER: Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores, Scavengers, Detrivores
• QUESTION: What are the different types of consumers in food chains?
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C-300
• ANSWER: The single factor that limits or restricts the growth, abundance or distribution of a species.
• QUESTION: What is a limiting factor?
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C-400
• ANSWER: About 10% of the energy from one trophic level is available to the next (the rest is lost to the environment as heat).
• QUESTION: What is the 10% rule?
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C-500
• ANSWER: Gross primary productivity (GPP) less energy used in respiration (R); a measure of how fast producers can provide the food needed by consumers in an ecosystem.
• QUESTION: What is Net Primary Productivity (NPP)?
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D-100
• ANSWER: The role a species has in an ecosystem.
• QUESTION: What is a niche?
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D-200
• ANSWER: A species considered essential to the well-being of an ecosystem, one that affects many other organisms in the ecosystem.
• QUESTION: What is a keystone species?
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D-300
• ANSWER: Mutualism
• QUESTION: What is a species interaction in which both members benefit?
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D-400
• ANSWER: 4 examples of species’ defense mechanisms
• QUESTION: What are Mimicry, Camouflage, Chemical Warfare and Warning Coloration (others possible)?
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D-500
• ANSWER: The gradual establishment of biotic communities on nearly lifeless/soil-less ground.
• QUESTION: What is primary succession?
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E-100
• ANSWER: It is found in both arctic latitudes as well as high elevations.
• QUESTION: Where is the Tundra biome located?
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E-200
• ANSWER: Its 2 major subtypes include prairies and savannahs
• QUESTION: What are the subtypes of the Grasslands biome?
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E-300
• ANSWER: It is characterized by conifers and is often cold.
• QUESTION: What are major features of the Coniferous Forest biome?
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E-400
• ANSWER: It is a temperate shrubland of low precipitation, subject to fires.
• QUESTION: What is the Chaparral biome?
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E-500
• ANSWER: It is coastal, cool, rainy, and has many evergreens that create a dense canopy.
• QUESTION: What is the Temperate Rainforest biome like?
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FINAL JEOPARDY
• ANSWER: Glucose is broken down to supply energy for cellular processes.
• QUESTION: What is cellular respiration?