Biodiversity
Name one threat to biodiversity. 1 point if you can name another.
habitat loss, pollution, overexploitation, and invasive species are acceptable answers.
What trophic level would have the highest concentration of toxins? 1 extra points if you can tell me the number?
Secondary consumer( 80k)
The starfish eats the barnacles off of the whale's back. What type of symbiosis is this?
What is Mutualism? Both animals benefit. Starfish is getting energy from the foo( barnacles) and the whale is benefiting by preventing the disease the barnacles have.
Accidents, diseases, predation, nutrient availability.
ADPN
The other opponent; come up with a question about a deer that pertains to the survivorship curve.
Opponent has the right answer
Resources:https://study.com/academy/practice/quiz-worksheet-types-of-survivorship-curves.html
A lion hunting a zebra
What is predator-prey/ Predatioin
What is an example of an ecological population?
Moving one way and eventually getting lost in the ecosystem describes the way energy flows in an ecosystem.
What are the causes of the birth rates?
How many they are having each time they reproduce
Population age structure
Age of the reproductive episode; the age of the first reproductive cycle
family planning and women's education
hydrogen?
What does isolating species of animals do to biodiversity?
Extinction, and endangerment
In a typical prairie food web energy moves from the grasshopper to the field mouse to the fox. Which is the secondary, tertiary and the primary[ consumer?
Secondary Consumer: Field mouse
Tertiary: Fox
Primary: Grasshopper
What is provisional service and what are some examples?
Products obtained from ecosystems
Examples: food, freshwater, raw materials, like wood fuel
What is the rule for determining the consumer price index?
When you move up a trophic level, you annex the 0 to go down a level ( divide by 10) or add a 0 ( multiplying by ten) to go up a level
What type of enivronment( rainforests for example) is slowly expanding?
The Dessert
A colony of penguins live on an iceberg. What biodiversity component is this?( Community, Species or Popullation?
What is Population? All of the same kind of animal live in the same area.
What kind of chemicals magnify as it moves up the foodchain?
What are fat soluble chemicals?
Two lions are fighting for the same resources, what kind of interaction is this?
compeition, two of the same species are fighting for the same limited resources.
( TEST Question: Why is it not predatory.prey or Competition)
Recreation is what kind of support for the earth?
Cultural Support
how many species have named and classified?
1.7 million
What does it mean when you study an amount of variation between a species?
Genetic Diversity
What kind of survivorship curve would the following scenario be?
Population of captive gorillas in a zoo.
Type 1 Survivorship curve
( Explanation: Because they have fewer numbers of offspring.)
An orchid grows on trees What kind of ecosystem interaction is this( mutualism, or parasitism)
Explanation: orchids gain access to sunlight and tree is not affected, and it doesn't bother the tree.
What affect do keystones species have on an ecosystem?
maintains the biodiversity of an ecosystem, influencing the abundance the species has, and stops extinctions and overexploitation of species.