Biodiversity
Human impact on biodiversity
Climate change and biodiversity loss
Community Relationships
Succession
100
This word describes the variety of life on earth.
What is biodiversity?
100
The total impact a person has on the biosphere.
What is an ecological footprint?
100
This is what causes the greenhouse effect, global warming and climate change.
What is fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) or greenhouse gases?
100
They type of relationship seen here and why.
What is mutualism? The been gets nectar and the plant gets pollinated.
100
The two types of succession.
What are primary and secondary?
200
Two things biodiversity provides.
What are medicine, good, services, food?
200
This is the main factor that causes biodiversity loss.
What is habitat destruction?
200
Isolated areas of land interrupted by roads or construction of cities.
What is habitat fragmentation?
200
A tick on a dog is an example of this type of relationship.
What is parasitism?
200
Forest fires lead to this type of succession.
Secondary
300
A species whose population is so low it is near extinction.
What is critically endangered?
300
This word describes the burning or cutting down of forests to expand farmland or cities.
What is deforestation?
300
Deforestation leads to this.
What are erosion and/or desertification?
300
The type of relationship seen here.
What is commensalism? (oxen not affected, bird get a free ride or food-insects).
300
The name of the first organisms to populate in succession.
What are pioneer species?
400
The animals that have the largest number of species.
What are the insects?
400
This is what farmers use to kill insects and protect their crops, but it is a threat to biodiversity.
What are pesticides?
400
The goal of conservation.
What is to preserve plants, animals, or ecosystems protecting them.
400
Three types of groups behavior.
What are schooling, herding, flocking, swarming?
400
The reason that a volcanic eruption leads to primary succession.
What is there is no soil present?
500
The three types of biodiversity.
What are species, genetics, and ecosystems?
500
The process seen here.
What is biomagnification?
500
Evidence of climate change.
What is melting glaciers, flooding, superstorms, increased greenhouse gases?
500
Three benefits of group behavior.
What is protection, mates, and getting food?
500
Description of an area after succession is complete.
What is a climax community?