This term is used to describe a bird which is less than one year old
What is a hatch-year bird?
100
An infectious disease (other than West Nile Virus) that has been affected by changes in ecology.
What is HIV/malaria/TB/Ebola/Nipah/Hantavirus/Lassa/Dengue/SARS/Lyme/Marbug/yellow fever/etc.
100
The areas that are most affected by climate change.
What are coastal communities?
200
This bird species is called a "super spreader" for West Nile Virus because it is preferred by Culex pipiens mosquitoes
What is the American Robin?
200
A disease that can be passed from animals to humans.
What is zoonotic disease?
200
The population of the coastal watershed counties of the U.S. and territories, including the Great Lakes, makes up more than how much of the population?
What is 50 percent?
300
This part of a storm drain system added to the proliferation of mosquitoes and West Nile Virus in Chicago.
What is a catch basin?
300
A type of disease transmission that is often affected by climate, sometimes involving insects.
What is vector-borne?
300
This type of conflict increases vulnerability to climate change.
What is violent conflict
400
Small areas of warmer temperatures in a city, often due to impermeable surfaces (and which may affect mosquito reproduction)
What are urban heat islands?
400
Affecting ecosystems (such as fragmenting forests), having livestock farms, globalization/travel, encroachment on "wild lands",...
What are things people do which influence the emergence of infectious diseases? (Robbins)
400
The big factor that affects sea level rise (that isn't expansion of the water).
What is ice melt?
500
Tony Goldberg's model for why WNV is amplified in some areas of Chicago.
What is the "coincidence model"
500
A term referring to alterations to the composition and dynamics of our microbiota.
What is dysbiosis?
500
Climate change in the 21st century is projected to reduce this in most dry subtropical regions.
What is/are renewable surface water and/or groundwater resources?