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Definitions
Lake Invaders
Invasive species
Fixing the Problem
Organizations
100
Organisms grouped by similar trait that can reproduce.
What is species?
100
Zooplankton in water increase when these are taken out.
What is trout?
100
Ballast water, hitching hiking on a boat, seaweed discarded, released by humans, garden or pet stores, research facilities
What are vectors for invasive species?
100
The process of reverting back to a past state. In an ecosystem this would be to get rid of invasive species and bring back natives.
What is restoration?
100
DMR
What is the Department of Marine Resources
200
Interconnected food chains.
What is food web?
200
Pike, trout, zooplankton, algae.
What are four trophic levels in a lake?
200
Asian shore crab and green crab
What are two invasive crab species?
200
This is how invasive species move around which needs to be limited.
What are vectors
200
DEP
What is Department of Environmental Protection
300
Photos, data, and information helping to prove an experimental question.
What is evidence?
300
A green plant that can be phytoplankton.
What is algae?
300
Organisms that are historically in an ecosystem.
What is native?
300
Cleaning boat hulls thoroughly before launching in a new area.
What is prevention of spreading invasive species?
300
GMRI
What is Gulf of Maine Research Institute?
400
All plants which create the energy for the food web
What is a producer?
400
When too much algae is produced, dies and uses up oxygen.
What is eutrophication?
400
An invasive fish that can create a trophic cascade in a lake.
What is pike?
400
Plants and animals that were not historically in a location but are not invasive.
What is non-native
400
An organization that is working to control ballast water.
What is US Coast Guard
500
How invasive species are spread around.
What is a vector?
500
The domino effect created within an ecosystem when a top predator is removed.
What is trophic cascade?
500
A system of plants and animal communities which interact with the non-living parts of the environment in a balanced manner.
What is an ecosystem?
500
Developing a rapid detection and response system for new invasions and funding marine invasive species research?
What are things that still need to be done?
500
Maine's Marine Invasive Species Working Group
What is a collaborative group working toward identifying priorities for education, research, monitoring, and management of invasive species?