Bio Means Life
This type of biodiversity might have many individual but few types of species.
What is low?
The type of photos scientists use to determine the biodiversity index of an area.
What are aerial photos?
Describes the balance between different parts of
the ecosystem.
What is dynamic equilibrium?
The number and variety of organisms found in a specific region.
What is biodiversity?
An organism that is introduced into an ecosystem, either by accident or on purpose, that spreads on its own and outcompetes native species for resources.
What is an invasive species?
Nutrient cycling is an example of this type of ecosystem service.
What is a supporting?
A method scientists use to measure biodiversity that involves spraying insecticide and catching insects in a large net.
What is canopy fogging?
The term describing any region of Earth between the
tropics and the polar circles.
What is temperate?
The benefits experienced by organisms, including humans, which are provided by healthy ecosystem.
Changing a habitat so much that it is no longer usable by the organisms that live there.
What is habitat destruction?
A taiga exists only in this place. (Hint: it is a hemisphere on Earth)
What is the northern hemisphere?
A method scientists use to measure the biodiversity of an area in which a rope or string is used to count the number of species at set intervals in a land or aquatic ecosystem.
What is transect sampling?
A geographic area on Earth that contains ecosystems with similar biotic and abiotic features.
What is a biome?
A coastal area where fresh water from rivers and streams mixes with salt water from seas or oceans.
What is an estuary?
The overuse of animal and plant species by humans.
What is overexploitation?
The words supporting, regulating, provisioning, and cultural describe this.
What is an ecosystem service?
The formula for the number of types of species divided by the total number of individuals in an area.
What is biodiversity index?
A forest biome consisting mostly of cone-bearing
evergreen trees.
What is a taiga?
The contamination of the environment with substances that are harmful to life.
What is pollution?
Changes in climate patterns over time.
What is climate change?
A place that is full of new life since many sea creatures are born here.
What is an estuary?
Three factors that should be considered when evaluating a solution to maintain biodiversity.
What are cost, time, and effectiveness?
The ability of an ecosystem to maintain balance even in the face of significant disturbances.
What is resilience?
The process of planting trees to replace trees that have been cut or burned down.
What is reforestation?
A process in which mined land is restored with soil and replanted with vegetation.
What is reclamation?