During monsoon season, many Asian countries experience floods.
What is a short-term change?
A change an animal can undergo with enough time; helps the animal better survive its environment.
What is an adaptation?
The most troubling source of water pollution, due to its inability to decompose over time.
What are plastics?
The Amazon rainforest is undergoing rapid deforestation over time.
What is a long-term change?
A species that is introduced to an ecosystem that does not belong there. Can disturb the balance in an ecosystem.
What is an invasive species?
An issue caused by over-farming of local fish supplies, resulting in smaller populations, and decreased biodiversity.
What is overfishing?
Our climate is steadily trending warmer with more intense storm seasons due to global warming.
What is a long-term change?
A solution to plastic pollution; reusing material instead of throwing it away after one use.
What is recycling?
A California forest rapidly burns forcing animals to flee and seek shelter elsewhere.
What is a short-term change?
Animals that can eat either plants or other animals.
What are omnivores?
A solution to destroyed marine habitats. Usually the intentional sinking of old vessels/structures to provide a new home for fish.
What is an artificial reef?
Why are short-term environmental changes generally more devastating for wildlife in those areas?
What is the inability for animals to adapt in a short amount of time?
The recovery process of an ecosystem after undergoing some natural disaster.
What is succession?
Some ways humans depend on the oceans?
What are sources of food, travel/trade, scientific research, and weather regulation?