Ecosystem Services
This type of service includes clean water, fertile soil, and pollination.
What are provisioning services?
This Asian carp is known for jumping and harming native fish populations.
What is the silver carp?
This biome is characterized by high rainfall and dense vegetation.
What is a tropical rainforest?
This act, passed in 1970, protects air quality in the U.S.
What is the Clean Air Act?
The formula for population change is births + immigration - deaths - ____.
What is emigration?
Wetlands filtering pollutants is an example of this type of service.
What are regulating services?
This plant, known for rapid growth, covers large areas in the southeastern U.S.
What is kudzu?
This cold, treeless biome has permafrost.
What is tundra?
This 1972 law protects water quality in rivers and lakes.
What is the Clean Water Act?
A population growing at a constant rate per year shows this type of growth.
What is exponential growth?
Cultural services provide this kind of benefit.
What is recreational or spiritual value?
Invasive species often lack these in their new environments.
What are natural predators?
This biome is dominated by grasses and few trees, often found in the interior of continents.
What is a grassland or prairie?
This international agreement in 1987 aimed to phase out ozone-depleting substances.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
The number of individuals a habitat can support over time.
What is carrying capacity?
Supporting services help maintain ecosystems by cycling these two essential elements.
What are nutrients and water?
One major way invasive species are spread globally.
What is international trade (or shipping)?
The largest terrestrial biome, also known as taiga.
What is boreal forest (or coniferous forest)?
Signed in 2015, this agreement aimed to limit global warming below 2°C.
What is the Paris Agreement?
A species that produces many offspring and doesn’t invest much parental care.
What is an r-selected species?
These services are often undervalued because they don’t have a direct market price.
What are ecosystem services?
This term refers to the variety of native life that invasive species often reduce.
What is biodiversity?
Biomes are primarily classified based on these two factors.
What are temperature and precipitation?
This U.S. agency was created in 1970 to enforce environmental laws.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
If a population of 1,000 grows by 5% per year, how many individuals will it have after 1 year?
What is 1,050?