Endangered Species
This was instituted to protect and recover imperiled species and the ecosystems upon which they depend.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
This is the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
What is Biodiversity?
This category of organisms is the most abundant and lowest on food webs
What are Producers?
This is the relationship between a crocodile and the Egyptian plover that cleans its teeth
What is mutualism?
An invasive species is dangerous because it has none of these
What are predators?
This year, ESA was signed into law.
What is 1973?
This is a community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
What is an Ecosystem?
The flow of energy is indicated by these
What are Arrows?
A mosquito stinging a human is an example of this type of relationship
What is parasitism?
It is similar to an invasive species, but does not harm the environment.
What is a non-native species?
This man signed the ESA into law.
Who is President Richard Nixon?
This is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations.
What is Evolution?
This is where all energy in food webs come from.
What is the Sun?
The barnacle lives on and gets its nutrient from the whale that does not benefit or get harmed in this type of relationship
What is commensalism?
This sum of money is lost on a yearly basis due to the effects of invasive species.
What is 120 billion dollars?
This category is 4th in the ranking going: Vulnerable, Threatened, Endangered, (Blank).
What is Extinct?
This is an area with extremely high levels of biodiversity
What is a Hotspot?
Wolves are this kind of consumers on a food web.
What are secondary and tertiary consumers?
This is the term for an organism that benefits off the harm is does to another.
What is a parasite?
This species in invasive in the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes and is currently served on menus in an effort to decrease its population size.
What is the Asian Carp?
Polar Bears are categorized as this because their population is decreasing rapidly.
What is Vulnerable?
Scientists estimate that this many species will be extinct within the next century.
What is half of all species?
This is what a species may become when they lose their food source(s).
What is Endangered?
While a food web does show predator/prey relationships, it does not show these types of relationships
What is symbiotic?
This animal is an invasive species in Australia that is being killed off with poisoned sausages
What is a cat?