The influenza that occurs naturally in birds but is transmitted to humans.
What is the Bird Flu?
100
Invasive insect found in the areas of Toronto and Vaughan.
What is the Asian Long-Horned Beetle?
100
Weeds and Dandelions.
What are examples of invasive terrestrial plants?
100
Most destructive termite in the world.
What is the Formosan Subterranean Termite?
100
Non-native animals, plants and microbes that are accidentally or intentionally brought into a new environment.
What are invasive species?
200
Measles, influenza, mumps, small pox, tuberculosis, etc.
What are examples of invasive microbes?
200
Importers from USA, Japan, China, South America and Europe.
What is the origin of invasive insects?
200
Economic losses, loss of wildlife habitat and loss of endangered plants.
What are the impacts of invasive plants on the environment?
200
Cause of why population growth of invasive animals cannot be controlled.
What is no natural predators?
200
Steal nourishment and habitat from native species in the environment.
What is the impact of invasive species?
300
Ballast water.
What is the origin of invasive microbes?
300
Cause damage to a variety of indigenous trees by slowing their growth and killing them over vast areas.
What is the ecological impact of invasive insects?
300
Control mechanism involving pulling, hoeing, tilage/mowing, etc.
What is mechanical control?
300
Displace native terrestrial animals and alter natural processes.
What is the impact of invasive terrestrial animals on the environment?
300
Travel, tourism, and trade.
What are the major forms of transportation to new environments of invasive species?
400
50% in humans.
What is the mortality rate of Bird Flu in humans?
400
Destroy stability of rural communities by disrupting traditional aboriginal activities.
What is the social impact of invasive insects?
400
Control mechanism involving bringing in predator insects.
What is biological control?
400
Aquatic animal that reduces the population of Phytoplankton by feeding on them.
What is the Zebra Muscle?
400
The ecosystem we visited which was infested by invasive species.
What is Finch and Dufferin?
500
The land of one type, such as forest, is broken up to accommodate a variety of uses, such as farmland or development.
What is landscape fragmentation?
500
Killing and destroying trees results in the deterioration of lumber and harvest quality (job loss & income in the forest, recreation & tourism industries).
What is the economical impact of invasive insects?
500
Easiest and cheapest way to control growth of invasive plants.
What is chemical control (herbicides)?
500
Shades out submergent vegetation by forming dense mats at surface, removes oxygen from water as it decays and interferes with shoreline succession.