Adelie
Penguins
Food Web
Risk Status
Climate
Change
Making Connections
100
the staple food of Adelie penguins
What is krill?
100
the most dangerous seal for Adelie penguins
What is a Leopard seal?
100
exhaustive studies fail to record an individual of a taxon
What is the definition of extinct?
100
releases carbon dioxide in lakes during warm spells
What is dead algae?
100
a form of pollution that travels through the air and warms the atmosphere
What are green house gases?
200
the nesting material of Adelie penguins
What are pebbles?
200
an Antarctic decomposer
What is filamentous fungi?
200
A. Declining population (past, present and/or projected) B. Geographic range size, and fragmentation, decline or fluctuations C. Small population size and fragmentation, decline, or fluctuations D. Very small population or very restricted distribution E. Quantitative analysis of extinction risk (e.g., Population Viability Analysis)
What is the criteria used to identify an endangered taxon?
200
climate change causes melting of these
What are glaciers and icecaps?
200
climate change results in these kinds of unpredictable occurrences that harm humans as well as natural and built environments
What are severe weather events?
300
surrounds Adelie penguins' eyes
What are white circles?
300
a secondary consumer that competes with Adelie penguins for food
What is a Weddell seal?
300
the main categories of risk status
What are Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable or Near Threatened?
300
two opposing impacts of climate change
What are drought and flooding?
300
travels though the air, land and water bodies disrupting the water cycle
What is pollution?
400
the dominant sense that Adelie penguins use for hunting
What is eyesight?
400
the main food of krill in the summer
What is phytoplankton?
400
the term used to designate a species that is facing an extremely high risk of extinction
What is critically endangered?
400
an approach to reducing emissions of carbon dioxide in an attempt to lower green house gas emissions and slow global warming
What is carbon neutrality?
400
warmer water hold less of this
What is oxygen?
500
the number of days it takes for Adelie penguins eggs to hatch
What is 35-37?
500
the main food of krill during the winter
What is ice algae?
500
there is inadequate information to make a direct or indirect assessment of a taxon's risk of extinction
What is the category of Data Deficient?
500
three of the six factors that reduce Adelie populations around Palmer Station
What is (three of) increased snowfall, less sea ice in winter, less krill, less protection from predators, and higher egg loss and chick mortality?
500
low oxygen, warm water promotes this "green" phenomenon
What is an algae bloom?
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