Biodiversity
The variety of life on Earth at all of its levels
What is biodiversity?
What are direct use, indirect use, and non-use values?
The number of historical mass extinctions on record.
What is 5?
Two climate change impacts.
What are significant changes in precipitation, increase in extreme weather events, altered phenology and Range shifts/expansions, ocean acidification and sea-level rise, and/or spread of vector-borne disease?
Instructors first and last name.
What is Alex(andria) Moore?
The entire set of genes in an organism
What is the genome?
Ecosystem services that describe the material or energy outputs from ecosystems.
What are provisioning services?
The three interacting fields that influence species' extinctions.
What are population phenotype, environmental context, and population structure/fitness?
The study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, such as flowering and migration.
What is phenology?
The winner of the Super Bowl.
Who are the NE Patriots?
The variation in the physical traits of the organism.
What is phenotypic diversity?
Services that make it possible for the ecosystems to continue providing services such as food supply, flood regulation, and water purification.
What are supporting services?
The process by which habitat loss results in the division of large, continuous habitats into a greater number of smaller patches.
What is habitat fragmentation?
The direction in which species' ranges are shifting due to climate change.
What is poleward or north/south?
The number of remaining class periods.
Variation in the quantitative and spatial characteristics between populations
What is population diversity?
Three characteristics of resilient ecosystems.
What are constancy, inertia, and renewal?
Unsustainable levels of consumption, harvest, or loss
What is overharvesting or overexploitation
The type of food web that is more resistant to species invasions.
What is a highly connected food web?
The song currently holding the number 1 spot on the Top 100 Songs Billboard.
What is 7 Rings by Ariana Grande?
The three species concepts.
What are the morphological, biological, and phylogenetic species concepts?
The total estimated value of ecosystem services.
What is $125 trillion/year?
The percentage of introduced species that become invasive.
What is between 10-15%?
One of the great mass extinctions.
What is the end-Ordovician, the late-Devonian, the end-Permian, the end-Triassic, or the end-Cretaceous?
The instructors astrological sign.
What is a Scorpio?