New York, New York
In the summer of 2022, the Spotted Lanternfly took over NYC, an example of this kind of species.
What is an invasive species?
equator, rainy, hot
What is a tropical rainforest?
The Brontë sisters all died from this infectious disease that is spread through respiratory droplets and results in a persistent and bad cough.
What is tuberculosis?
Lumber / timber
What is provisioning?
This describes the spectrum of environmental conditions—such as temperature, pH, or oxygen levels—within which a species can survive, grow, and reproduce
What is the range of tolerance?
The Gowanus Canal is an example of this.
coastal, rainy, redwood
What is a temperate rainforest?
Spoiler Alert! This character's death in Hamlet happens in a riparian area.
Who is Ophelia?
Flood control
What is regulating?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is geographic range?
Each year, Flushing Bay receives 2 billion gallons of raw sewage and polluted rainwater, in part, due to this type of wastewater system.
What is a A Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO)?
cold, dry, lichen
What is a tundra?
Oedipus Rex begins with this type of infectious disease befalling Thebes because Oedipus has killed his father and married his mother.
What is plague?
Soil formation
What is supporting?
These kinds of species have a narrow range of abiotic conditions they can tolerate and/or a narrow range of food they can.
What are specialists?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is a salt water tidal strait?
30 ° North & South
What is a desert?
Pip, the main character in this novel by Charles Dickens, has to face a lot of NOx and SOx as he leaves the wild marshes of his youth for smog-filled London.
What is Great Expectations?
Ecotourism
What is cultural?
A method of livestock production where animals graze on grass in open areas rather than in feedlots.
What is free-range grazing?
This neighborhood is known as "Asthma Alley" due to high levels of particulate matter exposure that are produced from nearby highways and industrial processes.
What is the (South) Bronx?
desert to forest
What is a savanna?
This Pulitzer Prize-winning author for the book Beloved once said, "You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for horses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. ‘Floods' is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering.”
Who is Toni Morrison?
Medicine
What is provisioning?
A substance that falls in this range is considered to be "acidic".
What is 0.0-6.9?