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1 Instructions for using this template. Remember this is Jeopardy, so where I have written Answer this is the prompt the students will see, and where I have Question should be the student s response. To enter your questions and answers, click once on the text on the slide, then highlight and just type over what s there to replace it. If you hit Delete or Backspace, it sometimes makes the text box disappear. When clicking on the slide to move to the next appropriate slide, be sure you see the hand, not the arrow. (If (fyou put your cursor over a text box, it will be an arrow and WILL NOT take you to the right location.)

2 Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

3 Click here for Final Jeopardy

4 Ecology Definitions Habitat or Niche? Name that bird Categories for Wildlife Field Trip Trivia Who Eats What? 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

5 The place where an organism lives

6 What is its HABITAT?

7 A group of the same kind of organism living i in one place.

8 What is a POPULATION?

9 An organism s role, or job, in its habitat.

10 What is its NICHE?

11 Several populations that live in one place.

12 What is a COMMUNITY?

13 Living and nonliving things existing and interacting ti together th in their environment.

14 What is an ECOSYSTEM?

15 Frogs are both predators and prey. This is an example of ftheir

16 What is NICHE?

17 The pond that a frog lives in is its

18 What is HABITAT?

19 The wooded area that foxes live in is their

20 What is HABITAT?

21 Frogs helping to lower the insect population is an example of their

22 What is NICHE?

23 Tigers are hunters. This is their...

24 What is NICHE?

25 The large white birds that we saw in the pond and perched on the trees.

26 What is the GREAT EGRET?

27 The large blue-grey bird that t was walking in the pond.

28 What is the BLUE HERON?

29 The great bird that our nation is famous for, but we didn t get to see on the trip.

30 What is the BALD EAGLE?

31 The smaller white birds that we saw sitting on top of the water gates.

32 What is the SNOWY EGRET?

33 Name the dark colored bird that was outside of the auditorium window.

34 What is the RED- WINGED BLACKBIRD?

35 When a species is not in danger it is...

36 What is ABUNDANT?

37 When a species is no longer alive it is

38 What is EXTINCT?

39 When the population of a species is very low it is considered... d

40 What is ENDANGERED?

41 When a species is beginning to decrease significantly.

42 What is THREATENED?

43 When the population of a species is beginning g to be affected by another organism.

44 What is SPECIES OF CONCERN?

45 The FULL name of place we visited for the field trip.

46 What is the BOMBAY HOOK WILDLIFE REFUGE?

47 Name the first pond that t we dipped d the nets into.

48 What is BRACKISH POND?

49 The number of acres that Bombay Hook Wildlife Refuge covers.

50 What is 16,000 ACRES?

51 The name of the big fish that Casey ypulled out of the freshwater pond.

52 What is a SUNNY?

53 Name the type of shrimp that we pulled out of the salt marsh.

54 What is GRASS SHRIMP?

55 An organism that t eats other organisms for food.

56 What is a CONSUMER?

57 An organism that t makes its own food.

58 What is a PRODUCER?

59 An animal that eats only dead organisms.

60 What is a SCAVENGER?

61 There are three levels of consumers. Humans are this specific type of consumer.

62 What is a TERTIARY CONSUMER?

63 An organism that breaks down the wastes or remains of other organisms.

64 What is a DECOMPOSER?

65 Make your wager

66 The scientific term for dipping i the nets into the pond.

67 What is SEINING? NG?

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