Mass Extinctions
Happened 443 million years ago and thought to be caused by plummeting temperatures and glacier formation.
What is Ordovician-Silurian Mass Extinction?
Linear network of links in a food web starting from producer, passing through 1 or more consumers, and ending at apex predators.
What is food chain?
Throwing trash on the ground.
What is pollution?
The height above sea level.
What is elevation?
Happens when global temperatures increase.
What is biomes disappearing, being cut in half, or expanding?
No more dinosaurs; volcanoes and asteroids (List)
What are the Triassic and Cretaceous Mass Extinctions?
Sea otters eat sea urchins and sea urchins eat kelp. Without sea otters sea urchins can eat all the kelp they want. No kelp means no fish nurseries.
What is keystone species?
Threats to native species from the lack of coevolution.
What are introduced species or diseases?
Biomes are large geographic areas determined by ____ and ____ levels.
What is temperature and moisture?
Carbon sinks house Carbon, but there are also human emissions that still get into the atmosphere.
What is burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and agriculture?
Most devastating Mass Extinction; "The Great Dying" killed ___.
What is Permian Mass Extinction and the Permian-Triassic Extinction (killed 95% of life)
___ autotrophs in a trophic level result in a(n) ____ biomass, meaning there is ____ food for those in higher trophic levels (such as consumers or apex predators). (three answers)
What is fewer, smaller, and little?
Last-known passenger pigeon died in Cincinnati Zoo in 1914 and was named _____. It died because of ____. (two answers)
What is Martha and overexploitation?
Measures the distance ____ and ____ of the equator. (three answers)
What is North, South, and Latitude?
What is parasitism, mutualism, commensalism, and amensalism?
The Devonian Mass Extinction killed almost _____ which were _____. (two answers)
What is 75% of the world species and invertebrates
Communities + ecosystems.
What is biodiversity?
Draining wet lands to build a Walmart.
What is habitat loss?
___ ocean currents ___ the air above, it which causes the coast to ___. This in turn keep the coast at a consistent temperature. (6 different answers)
What is warm, heat, and warm up?
AND
What is cold, cool, and cool down?
Greenhouse gases are gases that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range. (list ones we talked about)
What is methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2), and water (H2O)?
The expansion of _____ is strongly correlated with a(n) _____ in _____. Signifies ___. (four answers)
What is prehistoric humans into territories, increase, large animal extinction, and possibility of 6th Mass Extinction
My backyard.
What is an ecosystem?
The Northern White Rhino is listed on the _________ and only has ____ of the species left because of ____. (three answers)
What is the Endangered Species Act, two females, and overexploitated (over hunted)?
Heated ground causes the air to rise which results in ______. As it rises, the air cools and descends to the ground resulting in _____. (two different answers)
What is lower air pressure and higher air pressure?
Disruptions in ecosystem behaviors from climate change. (list)