HABs
These microscopic, plant-like organisms can rapidly multiply in water and sometimes turn it red or green.
What are algae?
The scientific name for the so-called "brain eating amoeba"
What is Naegleria fowleri?
This gas, related by burning fossil fuels, is the most significant driver of global warming.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
Warmer waters and nutrient pollution together increase the frequency of these toxic events.
What are harmful algal blooms?
This nutrient, often from fertilizer runoff, is the main cause of algal overgrowth in lakes and ocean.
What is nitrogen?
This organism is most commonly found in this type of warm, freshwater environment.
What are lakes, rivers, or hot springs
Global warming leads to the melting of these frozen regions, raising sea levels worldwide.
What are polar ice caps and glaciers?
Brain-eating amoebas thrive as climate change warms this type of aquatic environment
What are freshwater lakes and rivers?
When harmful algal blooms occur, they often create these low-oxygen zones that can suffocate marine life.
What are dead zones?
Naegleria fowleri enters the human body through this passageway, not by drinking water.
What is the nose?
As the ocean warms, it absorbs more CO2, causing this chemical process that harms shell-forming organisms/
What is ocean acidification?
Rising water temperatures reduce the amount of this essential gas dissolved in aquatic habitats.
What is oxygen?
This type of algal bloom produces saxitoxin, which can contaminate shellfish and cause paralytic poisoning.
What is a red tide?
Once inside the body, the amoeba travels along this nerve to reach the brain.
What is the olfactory nerve?
Warmer ocean temperatures can trigger this phenomenon then causes coral to lose their symbiotic algae.
What is coral bleaching?
As aquatic ecosystems warm, species that prefer cold water are forced to do this to survive.
What is migrate?
This process, where excess nutrients cause rapid plant growth and oxygen depletion, is closely tied to HAB formation.
What is eutrophication?
This rare but deadly infections caused by the amoeba has a nearly 97% fatality rate.
What is primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM)?
Droughts, crop failures, and changing weather patterns linked to global warming threaten global supplies of this essential resource.
What is food?
Climate driven increases in harmful algal blooms, disease-causing microbes, and habitat loss collectively threaten this concept, referring to the variety of life in ecosystems.
What is biodiversity?