Vocabulary
Competition
ADK Invasives
Invasive Species Walk
Ecosystem Science
100
Not native to the area
What is an invasive species?
100
Species are fighting for this when they compete.
What is food, space or resources.
100
This aquatic mollusk was introduced through waterways and is invasive in NYS.
What is a zebra muscle?
100
Name this species we saw on the invasive species walk.
What is a cattail?
100
Competition reduces this important factor of ecosystem health and pushes a system toward monoculture.
What is biodiveristy?
200
Geographic area where organism interact with eachother.
What is an ecosystem?
200
What a species becomes if it is out compete by another species, and the population just starts to decline.
What is threatened?
200
This invasive has large clusters of white flowers and is a part of the carrot family.
What is the Giant Hogweed?
200
The invasive we saw on the invasives walk that has thorns on its leaves.
What is thistle?
200
This NYS government agency is concerned with ecosystem health.
What is the DEC?
300
A species that is endemic to an area.
What is a native species?
300
A species in the primary consumer trophic level competes with species in this level.
What is primary consumer?
300
This invasive species carries diseases and can be found in the tall grass of areas where deer are common.
What is a deer tick?
300
We saw two of these non invasive animals in the tree line on the invasive species walk.
What are bunnies?
300
Washing boats before they are launched protects this ecosystem type.
What is aquatic?
400
An ecosystem that includes some sort of body of water.
What is an aquatic ecosystem?
400
Once a species is at extreme risk of becoming extinct.
What is endangered?
400
This insect targets Ash trees in the Adirondack Park and surrounding areas.
What is the Emerald Ash Boring Beetle?
400
What was the shape of the test sight for the cattail positive ID area?
What is a large rectangle?
400
Having a large amount of ____________, that do not take energy from other living organisms, is good for the health of an ecosystem.
What is a producer?
500
This is an event that changes/ restarts the progression of an ecosystem.
What is a disruption?
500
Trees canopies grow above the rest of the forest because producers are competing for these two things.
What are space and sunlight?
500
Name this invasive species.
What is a round goby?
500
When removing the invasive plants, this needs to come with the stem for it to be effective.
What is the root system?
500
This is a relationship where both species benefit.
What is mutualism?