Population Dynamics Jeopardy
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Choose your category from the 4 listed above
Choose your cash prize from $100-$500
Correctly ask the question that fits the answer
Double Jeopardy answers are worth double
Unasked answers default to the opposing team
Each team may ask three questions in a turn
Winning team has the most money at the end
Population
Definitions
Population
Dynamics
Population
Change
Factors Limiting
Growth
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• A: The place in which a species lives
• Q: What is a habitat?
• A: The maximum number of organisms that can
be sustained in a habitat over a specified amount
of time
• Q: What is the carrying capacity?
• A: A measure of growth which is predictable and
regular
• Q: What is geometric growth?
• A: The living components of an ecosystem
• Q: What are biotic factors?
• A: A species native to a certain area
• Q: What is an indigenous species?
• A: The study of populations over time
• Q: What is population dynamics?
• A: A growth rate which becomes more rapid in
proportion to population size
• Q: What is exponential growth?
• A: The non-living components of an ecosystem
• Q: What are abiotic factors?
• A: A species not native to an area
• Q: What is an exotic species?
• A: The natural growth rate of a species in a
habitat
• Q: What is fecundity?
• A: Δ = [(b + i) – (d + e) / n x 100
• Q: What is the equation for population change?
• A: Species living in an ecosystem which feed on
other organisms
• Q: What are consumers?
• A: D = n/s
• Q: What is population density?
• A: Clumped, uniform or random
• Q: What are population dispersion patterns?
• A: The role of the crab in this food web
• Q: What is a producer of food for lobsters and a
consumer of food such as mussels?
• A:Species living in an ecosystem which act as
food for other organisms
• Q: What are producers?
• A: A series of interconnected organisms
representing energy flow
• Q: What is a food web?
• A: A method of tagging species for tracking
• Q: What is the mark/recapture method?
• A: The population change of this species:
b = 10
i=2
d=5
e =1
n = 50
• Q: Δ = [(b + i)– (d + e) / n x 100
= [(10 + 2) – (5 + 1) / 50 x 100
= 6/50 x 100
= 12
• A: The tiers in a food web through which energy
is passed
• Q: What is a trophic level?