Biological control
The idea of using a natural predator to control unwanted or invasive species
What is biological control?
Biomagnification is a process by which chemical substances become more concentrated at each
What is trophic level?
Plastic bottles, bags, nets, fishing lines, and other plastic items.
What are examples of macroplastics?
Introduced to solve erosion or as an ornamental plant.
What is Kudzu?
The name for a species non-native to an ecosystem.
What is Alien Species?
Unexpected consequences may occur from introducing a new organism into an ecosystem
What is competitive exclusion?
The acronym for the toxic chemical that was purposely put into the environment to kill small pests but has since killed and infected many bigger species within the North American ecosystem?
What is DDT?
The increase in use microplastics over the last 20 years.
What is the impact of humans on plastic?
Threat to the environment and economic development.
What is the impact of Alien species?
The estimated rate of decomposition for plastic bottles.
What is 450 years?
The idea of using a natural predator to control unwanted or invasive species
What is the risk of biological control?
Define a Persistent Organic Pollutant (POP)
What are toxic chemicals that adversely affect human health and the environment?
Macroplastics are larger than 5mm and microplastics are smaller than 5mm.
What is the difference between macro plastics and microplastics?
The plant that ate the south
What is Kudzu?
The year DDT was banned in the USA.
What is 1971?
Rigorous testing carried out before an alien species is released into a new ecosystem to calculate its benefits
What is risk assessment?
The most deadly vector borne disease in the world.
What is Malaria?
Ingestions of microplastic pieces by marine organisms
What is the potential impact that microplastics can have on marine environments?
Amphibian imported from Hawaii and released in Queensland Australia to control sugar cane beetle pests but ended up multiplying rapidly and not affecting the cane beetle population at all.
What is the Cane Toad?
DDT is the acronym for what toxic chemical.
What is Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane?
A species being native to a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone
What is Endemic Species?
The only country that continues to produce and manufacture DDT.
What is India?
Polychlorinated biphenyl, which is industrial products or chemicals. The chemical is very harmful to marine wildlife and they enter the ocean through absorption into the atmosphere.
What is PCB and how does it affect the environment?
Copper sulfate and chlorine were released in a marina to get rid of this mollusk that fouled anchors, pylons, buoys, storm water pipes, vessel hulls, and breakwaters with its thick matt.
What is the black striped mussel?
The first sign that there was a major problem with the spread and infection of living things due to the use of DDT.
What is a decline the number of birds?