Threatened Species
What is the Koala?
An organism that kills and eats the prey (food source).
What is a predator?
the volume of water passing through an area each second. It effects the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water.
What is flow rate?
What is considered to be the main negative impact on our school ecosystem?
What is litter?
living factors in an ecosystem
What is biotic factors?
A threatened species that inhabits numerous water bodies including freshwater streams, creeks, dams and ponds. Threats are habitat loss through waterway and wetland modification, fishing net entanglement and predators.
What is the platypus?
What is a herbivore?
A key indicator of water quality that is essential for the survival and growth of aquatic organisms. When these levels are too low, aquatic organisms can die.
What is dissolved oxygen?
What abiotic factor should improve once we install an aerator in our school dam to improve the water quality for its inhabitants such as turtles?
A frame used to study the distribution of items over a large area by isolating a standard unit of area.
What is a quadrat?
One of Australia's largest butterflies. Once widely distributed in SE Qld it is now only found in a few areas due to habitat clearing, particularly of its host vine.
What is the Richmond Birdwing Butterly?
organisms that capture light energy to convert inorganic materials (carbon dioxide and water) into oxygen and organic matter (glucose).
What is a producer or autotroph?
a measure of how cloudy or hazy a water sample is.
what is turbidity?
One of the reasons we have revegetated the bank near the dam is to prevent what?
What is erosion?
What tool can be used to dig holes for planting?
What is a pickaxe/mattock?
A cockatoo species threatened by loss of habitat. It requires a large tree hollow for nesting and feeds on the seeds in the cones of she-oaks (casuarinas).
What is the Glossy Black Cockatoo?
What is a decomposer?
A place in which the land is covered by water. It functions as its own ecosystem and provide habitat for many birds and rare species. They improve our water value and provide breeding areas for fish. There are about 200 of them located in Logan.
What is a wetland?
The Windaroo Creek feeds into the ___ and then the ___ rivers.
What is the Albert and Logan Rivers?
What needs to be added after planting to retain moisture and suppress weed growth?
What is mulch?
A medium sized tree growing to 20m, flowering winter to spring with white spikes followed by fruit of a smooth, hard, brown nut that contains an edible kernel. Threatened by land clearing, fire, weed invasion, erosion and overgrazing.
What is the Macadamia Nut?
An organism that lives in or on a host, from which they obtain food, shelter and other requirements.
What is a parasite?
An inorganic compound that enters waterways from soil erosion, sewage and industrial waste. In waterways it can have negative effects such as causing algae blooms.
What is phosphates?
To attract more native birds and insects to our school ecosystem, native plant species have been planted. The scientific name of a bottlebrush plant is..
What is callistemon?
Unit of measurement used to measure the amount of sunlight. A data logger has a sensor to detect the light and provide such measurements.
What is lux?