Invasive Species
What is the difference between Native species and Non-Native species?
Native is in its in its natural environment and invasive introduced, foreign introduced by human action, either accidentally or deliberately, outside of its natural range
What did the British give to the Native Americans at Fort Pitt to kill many of them?
Blankest infected with smallpox.
Which species causes a lot of damage to marshes and wetlands in the U.S?
ZEBRA MUSSEL
Europeans
A person who is immune to a particular infection
A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars.
SMALLPOX
True or false.
Invasive species can often grow quicker than local species.
TRUE
How much did the Native American population decrease during their encounter with the Europeans?
95% of the population died within the first half of the 1500s
What is often the introduction to Invasive Species?
People, Things which they did by mistake and on purpose.
Is the following statement true and why?
Native Americans were able to establish a peaceful relationship with Europeans from the 1500s to the 1700s
False.
Marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
POISONOUS
Which species was introduced to Australia to kill pests on sugar cane fields.
Cane Toad
What was lost when the Native-American elders died?
Oral traditions were lost.
HONEYBEES HELP THE ENVIROMENT.
What is one of the theories about where smallpox came out?
A Spanish soldier with smallpox landed in Mexico.
everything that exists in a particular area and the ways in which those things interact
ecosystem
EXOTIC
ALIEN
NON-INDIGENOUS
Their lives were rich with traditions and, and tribal alliances.
True or false, why?
Invasive species have the ability to crowd out competitors in a new enviroment ?
True,
invasive species crowd out local competitors by growing faster, hogging all the food, or reproducing more quickly.
Fill in the blank.
"Smallpox had a ___________________effect on the health of the Native Americans"
Huge
The group of species related to mushrooms and mold.
FUNGUSES
What do scientist suggest that we call invasive species and why?
New arrivals, because it sounds less threatening, and some invasive species have become valuable in the eco-system.
What percentage of the European people who got smallpox survived?
70% of the population.
Nutria (Small, beaver-like mammals)
Smallpox changed the story of the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans.
a long, well-researched piece of writing that is written to earn a university degree
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