Show:
Yellowstone Wolf
Name that Type of Biodiversity
Measuring Biodiversity
Keystone Species
Miscellaneous
100
A hoofed mammal. Examples include deer, bison, elk, and sheep.
What is ungulate?
100
The variation in the genes of a species refers to this.
What is genetic biodiversity?
100
A forest has 10 pine trees, 11 douglass fir trees, 50 squirrels, 6 red foxes, and 5 hawks. The Biodiversity Index for this forest is....
What is 0.06?
100
A plant or animal that plays an important role in the way an ecosystem functions. Without it, the ecosystem is very different or may cease to exist.
What is the Keystone Species?
100
Name an apex predator.
What is ?????
200
The killing of livestock by wild animals.
What is depredation.
200
The variety of different types of living organisms present in different places in the same area is called this.
What is Species Diversity?
200
A farmer grows corn on his land. He grows just one type of corn. The field contains 1000 individual plants. The Biodiversity Index is..
What is 0.001?
200
An ecological phenomenon triggered by the removal or addition of top predators.
What is a trophic cascade?
200
The term Keystone Species comes from this building term.
What is a keystone?
300
The local extinction of a species. The removal of a species from an area.
What is Extirpated?
300
Resistance to parasites is an example of this.
What is Genetic Diversity?
300
The counting of number of species in an area.
What is Species Richness?
300
The removal of the wolf caused major changes to the ecosystem at Yellowstone National Park. What organism saw its population soar as a result?
What is the elk?
300
This species benefited when the Sea Otter went away.
What is Sea Urchin?
400
A predator that is not preyed on as a healthy adult.
What is the Apex predator?
400
Variation in the ecological area or environment like a desert or grassland is an example of this.
What is Ecosystem diversity?
400
How even the distribution of each species in an ecosystem.
What is Species Evenness?
400
The removal of the sea otter caused the population of this organism to decline or even disappear in some cases.
What is kelp?
400
When soil becomes loose and slides into rivers and streams like what happened at Yellowstone.
What is soil erosion?
500
This piece of legislation or law provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened.
What is the Endangered Species Act of 1973?
500
A tropical rain forest has many many organisms that live in it. This is an example of...
What is Species Diversity?
500
An acre of farmland has 10 apple trees, 15 peach trees, 40 grape vines, and 500 honeybees. The Biodiversity Index is...
What is 0.007?
500
The depletion of the kelp forests as a result of the removal of sea otters and an increase in sea urchins is an example of this.
What is a trophic cascade?
500
The trophic cascade that occurred at Yellowstone can be summed up this way.
What is ...