Conservation
This large African animal has been effectively brought back from being nearly extinct in the wild to numbers around 16,000 and is thought to be a major success story.
What is the white rhino?
This type of hazard includes things like smoking or eating high salt or high fat foods.
What are cultural hazards?
This type of species generally has high parental involvement and has a sigmoidal shaped growth curve.
What is a K-selected species?
Their role is disproportionate to their abundance in the community.
What is a keystone species?
This group of people is especially susceptible to pesticide poisoning.
Who are agricultural workers?
This type of species exhibits a j-shaped growth curve and has a fast reproduction time.
What is an r-selected species?
These areas have both high endemism and are under less threat (<30% of original habitat cover lost).
What are high biodiversity wilderness areas?
This pesticide lead to Rachel Carson writing Silent Spring as it magnifies as it goes up the food chain and was resulting in widespread decline of birds.
What is DDT?
He traveled in the HMS Beagle around the world, stopping in the Galapagos Islands and developed the theory of evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
This analogy is about the role of individual species for the function of the ecosystem.
What is the airplane-rivet analogy?
What we have in our body that has accumulated over time from exposure via air, water, diet and environment.
What is body burden?
This is when harmless species evolve warning coloration of a harmful species to gain protection.
What is batesian mimicry?
This list includes the status of endangered and threatened species.
What is the IUCN Red List?
What type of diseases are more common in developing countries?
What are cumunicable diseases?
This insect can go from a relatively solitary organism to grouping in swarms that can wipe out crops.
What is a locust?