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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,
and
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