Animals
What is a wildebeest?
The seasonal movement of animals from one area to another.
What is migration?
The community of organisms and its environment.
What is an ecosystem?
The cause of plant growth in the Serengeti and the driver for migrations.
What is rainfall?
The meaning of the name "Serengeti" which is derived from "siringet" in Maasai or Maa.
What is "endless plains"?
What predator lives in water in the Serengeti?
What are crocodiles ?
a large geographic biotic unit, a major community of plants and animals with similar life forms and environmental conditions.
What is a biome?
Key interactions that regulate populations and maintain ecological balance.
What is predator-prey relationships?
What are Tanzania and Kenya?
This Disney movie has a location inspired by the geographic features of the Serengeti.
What is Lion King?
What are two predators in Africa?
What is a lion and a cheetah? (hyenas, wild African dogs)
What is competition?
Two type of biomes
What is aquatic and terrestrial?
An annual movement of over 1.5 million wildebeests and hundreds of thousands of zebras and gazelles in search of grazing and water.
What is the great migration?
The length of the wildebeest migration path.
What is 500-620 miles (800-1000 km)?
What type of animal has no predators in the Serengeti?
What are elephants?
two types of conservations of animals (inside a zoo and outside in the wild)
in-situ and ex-situ
Altering rainfall patterns and affecting the migration cycle
What is climate change?
Non-native species can disrupt local ecosystems.
What are invasive species?
Pollution: Air, water, and soil contamination.
Deforestation: Loss of habitats and biodiversity.
Climate Change: Alters habitats and species distribution.
Invasive Species: Non-native species that disrupt local ecosystems.
What are human impact?
How many wildebeests are in the Serengeti?
What are 1.5 million?
The maximum number of organisms of a species that can be sustainably supported by an ecosystem. Denoted by the letter K.
What is carrying capacity?
an environmental factor that limits the growth, distribution, or abundance of a population or organism in an ecosystem
What is limiting factor?
Features grasslands, woodlands, and riverine forests.
What are Serengeti landscape?
The Big 5 animals that are all found in the Serengeti.
(Name all five)
What are lion, cheetah, gazelle, elephant and wildebeest?