Ecosystems
What type of a relationship exists between a coyote and a rabbit?
What is predator/prey?
These are the 2 distinguishing factors in a biome.
What is temperature and precipitation?
True or false- one of the biggest causes of biodiversity loss in an ecosystem is due to human activity.
What is true?
What is 50 pounds?
True or false: animals typically live longer in captivity than they do in the wild.
What is true?
This is the vocabulary term for a top predator in an ecosystem.
What is an apex predator?
Biomes tend to converge around this all across the world.
What is latitude?
This is the term to mean selectively kill members of a species.
What is cull?
According to the tree lab, how many trees does it take to offset the average person's CO2 emissions from driving each year?
What is 233 trees?
This is an organism that is not native or indigenous to a particular area and can often times have a negative impact on the natural ecosystem.
What is invasive species?
This is the type of relationship that exists between biodiversity and the health of an ecosystem.
What is direct?
This type of biome includes boreal (taiga), temperate deciduous, temperate rain and tropical rain. It covers about 30% of Earth's land surface.
What is forest?
The number of hippos expected to inhabit Colombia by 2035 if nothing is done to stop their population growth.
What is 1,000?
These are the products of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen and glucose?
This is the term to describe the complicated relationship between all living and nonliving factors in an ecosystem and how they all impact each other.
What is interdependence?
These are the 3 broad categories of services the natural world provides for us.
What is Goods/products, Regulation and Cultural?
This biome is known for its extremely cold temperatures and the only place penguins inhabit.
What is antarctic tundra?
These are the 2 ways people in Florida are combating the invasive species: lionfish.
What is eating them and making jewelry out of them?
This is the amount of carbon dioxide each whale pulls out of the atmosphere on average (and equals an economic value of $2 million)
What is 33 tons?
This is the average amount of miles an EV can drive on a full charge.
What is 200-300 miles?
These are the 2 biomes with the highest Net Primary Productivity (terrestrial and aquatic)
What is tropical rainforest and coral reef?
The biome that each of the following animals belong to are:
lion=
polar bear=
clown fish=
What is the savanna for lion, arctic tundra for polar bear, and coral reef for clown fish?
This type of management plan has proven to be the most effective when it comes to combating invasive species.
What is community-based programs?
Trees found near this area of the planet sequester the most amount of carbon dioxide.
What is the equator?
This is how much CO2 is produced from a car that drives 14,500 miles/year and gets 25 miles/gallon? (Remember each gallon produces 20.35 pounds of CO2.)
What is 11,803 pounds?