Ecosystem Services
When an ecosystem provides a material benefit such as food, clean water, or fuel.
What are Provisioning Services?
The plant that monarch butterflies depend on to complete their lifecycle.
What is milkweed?
The term for any species brought into an ecosystem from elsewhere by humans.
What is introduced?
The biological process that converts CO2 into carbohydrates.
What is photosynthesis?
What is coal?
When an ecosystem provides a benefit to human recreation, enjoyment, or aesthetic appreciation.
What are cultural services?
Many related species of wildflowers with fall-blooming stalks of bright yellow flowers.
What are goldenrods?
What is invasive?
The gas in the atmosphere that is almost entirely a product of the biosphere.
What is oxygen?
The biological source of liquid hydrocarbon (oil) and most natural gas.
What is marine algae?
When an ecosystem functions to control other Earth systems or other components within the ecosystem to the benefit of humans.
What are regulating or supporting services?
An ecologically sterile monoculture found throughout suburbia.
What is a lawn?
The common name of the Ailanthus altissima tree and preferred host of the spotted lantern fly.
What is Tree of Heaven?
The chemical process where glucose reacts with oxygen to produce energy + CO2 + water.
What is respiration?
The woody, precursor to coal excavated from bogs.
What is peat?
$125-$145 trillion
What is the value of global ecosystem services per year?
The food item provided by native vegetation that almost all birds feed their young with?
What are caterpillars?
A non-native species that over time becomes integrated into the local ecosystem.
What is naturalized?
The northern hemisphere season of the year when CO2 in the atmosphere falls to its lowest annual level.
What is summer?
The original source of the chemical energy in fossil fuels.
What is sunlight / solar energy?
An ecosystem service provided by mangrove forests.
What is coastal protection / erosion control?
The process of simulating winter for seeds from native plants so they will germinate.
What is cold stratification?
An common invasive bird that was introduced to Central Park in 1890 by Eugene Schieffelin to have all of the birds in Shakespeare's plays in New York.
What is the European starling?
The second most important source of excess CO2 in the atmosphere after fossil fuel burning?
What is deforestation / land use change?
The geological period named for the formation of of vast deposits of coal.
What is the Carboniferous?