APES 1st Semester Review Jeopardy:Intro to APES and Ecology

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A: Intro

B: Energy &

Biogeochem

C: Risk & Toxicity

D: Ecosystems

E: Evolution & Extinction

Final Jeopardy

F: Species & Land

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A-100

• DAILY DOUBLE!• ANSWER: A condition in which people overuse a resource available to everyone until the resource is

depleted• QUESTION: What is the Tragedy of the Commons?

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A-200

• ANSWER: Ecological footprint

• QUESTION: Amount of productive land and water needed to sustain each person with the resources they use and to absorb or dispose of their wastes

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A-300

• ANSWER: The major cause of reduced human lifespan globally

• QUESTION: What is poverty?

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A-400

• ANSWER: point and non-point sources of pollution

• QUESTION: What types of pollutants come from a single, identifiable source, and what type of pollutants come from multiple sources that are difficult to pinpoint or ID?

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A-500

• ANSWER: The concept that when there is uncertainty about the harm/danger from an activity, action should be taken to prevent that harm/danger before it might occur

• QUESTION: What is the Precautionary Principle?

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• ANSWER: The 2 forces that drive the hydrologic cycle

• QUESTION: What are gravity and solar energy?

B-100

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B-200

• ANSWER: Low-quality energy, a form that usually results from energy transformations

• QUESTION: What is heat?

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B-300

• ANSWER: The 2 primary processes in the carbon cycle

• QUESTION: What are photosynthesis and respiration?

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B-400

• ANSWER: 2 terms for the movement of water through soil and rock

• QUESTION: What are infiltration and percolation?

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B-500

• ANSWER: The first and second laws of thermodynamics (in order)

• QUESTION: What are the laws that state 1. energy is neither created nor destroyed,

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2. energy conversions create an increase in disorder and disperse heat

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C-100

• ANSWER: Vectors

• QUESTION: What are agents of disease transmission?

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C-200

• DAILY DOUBLE!

• ANSWER: a measure of how harmful a substance is, and the amount that a person (or other organism) ingests, inhales or absorbs

• QUESTION: What are toxicity and dose?

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C-300

• ANSWER: Vectors for West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease, respectively

• QUESTION: What are mosquitoes and ticks?

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C-400

• ANSWER: Biomagnification

• QUESTION: What is the accumulation of toxins in body tissues due the ingestion of compounds that build up to toxic levels over time

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C-500

• ANSWER: LD50 and threshold level

• QUESTION: What is the amount of toxic material (per unit of body weight) that kills 50% of a test population, and what is the level below which no effects from a toxin are apparent?

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D-100

• ANSWER: a diagram showing complex feeding patterns in an ecosystem

• QUESTION: What is a food web?

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D-200

• ANSWER: 3 types of organisms that feed off the remains or wastes of other organisms

• QUESTION: What are scavengers, decomposers, detrivores/detritus feeders?

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D-300

• ANSWER: the 5 trophic levels in a food chain/web from bottom to top

• QUESTION: what are– Producers– Herbivores– Carnivores/omnivores– Scavengers/detrivores– Decomposers

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D-400

• ANSWER: the 10% rule

• QUESTION: What rule/principle states that for every successively higher trophic level in a food chain/web, only 10% of the energy from the level below is available

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D-500

• ANSWER: 2 each density-dependent and density-independent population control factors (in order)

• QUESTION: What are 2 each of:– Food, disease, shelter, competition for

resources (others possible); and– Habitat destruction, natural disasters,

adverse weather (others possible)

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E-100

• ANSWER: areas rich in biodiversity but also having many species vulnerable to endangerment/extinction

• QUESTION: What are hot spots (in ecology)?

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E-200• ANSWER: 2 characteristics that make a

species prone (more likely) to extinction

• QUESTION: What are 2 of: – Low population density or size– Large body size– Specialized niche/inability to adapt– Low reproductive rate– Few offspring

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E-300

• ANSWER: Coevolution and convergent evolution (in that order)

• QUESTION: What is the situation in which different interacting species evolve together, and the situation in which unrelated species evolve similarly but in different areas?

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E-400

• ANSWER: 2 major provisions of the Endangered Species Act

• QUESTION: It designates plants and animals that are threatened and endangered, it protects the habitat of those designated plants and animals

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E-500

• ANSWER: the 2 factors thought to be the most harmful to biodiversity today

• QUESTION: What are habitat destruction and invasion by non-native species?

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F-100

• ANSWER: The biggest problem for most U.S. national parks today

• QUESTION: What is increased/too many visitors?

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F-200

• DAILY DOUBLE!

• ANSWER: The most and the least restricted use designations for public lands

• QUESTION: What are Wilderness Areas and National Resource Lands/BLM land?

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F-300• ANSWER: 4 characteristics of K-strategist

species• QUESTION: What are any 4 of:

– Large size– Few in number– Offspring receive parental care– Specialized niche– Low reproductive rate– Adapted to stable environmental conditions– Vulnerable to extinction (more so than r-strategists)– Long lifespan

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F-400

• ANSWER: High population density, wide ranging niche, high reproductive rate

• QUESTION: What are some factors that would make a species an r-strategist (or resistant to extinction)?

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F-500

• ANSWER: CITES

• QUESTION: The international treaty that controls trade in endangered species

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FINAL JEOPARDY• ANSWER: Descriptions of what happens to

nitrogen in the nitrogen cycle during fixation, nitrification, assimilation, ammonification and denitrification

• QUESTION: What is conversion from an atmospheric gas to soil ammonia/ammonium, then to nitrate/nitrite, then uptake by plants & animals, next organic waste is decomposed to ammonia, and finally returned as a gas to the atmosphere