Extinction
What is poaching?
The separation of an ecosystem into small pieces of land.
What is habitat fragmentation?
The primary cause of extinction
What is destruction of habitat?
The type of biodiversity that shows the different traits in one population.
What is genetic diversity?
Mrs. Welker's middle name
Breanna
The gradual process of species becoming extinct.
Different environmental conditions that occur along the boundaries of an ecosystem.
What are edge effects?
When sulfur dioxide and/or nitrogen oxides are released in the air and form acidic pollutants.
What is acid rain?
This increases as a habitat is broken into smaller fragments.
What is edge effects?
Mrs. Welker's favorite color
What is red?
An event in which a large percentage of all living species become extinct in a relatively short period of time.
What is mass extinction?
The increasing concentration of toxic substances in organisms as trophic levels increase in a food web.
What is biological magnification?
Occurs when fertilizers that are rich in nitrogen flow into waterways, causing extensive algae growth.
What is eutrophication?
The number of different species and the relative abundance of each in a biological community.
What is species diversity?
Mrs. Welker's maiden name
Walker
A flightless bird that went extinct. People use this name to insult others.
What is the dodo bird?
Excessive use of species that have economic value.
What is overexploitation?
What is habitat disruption?
The variety of ecosystems present in the biosphere
What is ecosystem diversity?
The year Mrs. Welker got married
2017
Any species that is not native to an ecosystem and causes harm.
What is an invasive species?
Changes to the environment that are induced by human activity.
Biological magnification, acid rain, and eutrophication are all caused by this. Starts with a P.
What is pollution?
What are direct economic values?
Mrs. Welker's kids names
Levi and Jake