Species Interactions

What is the name of the species that is invading the everglades?

• Coral snake

• Viper snake

• Burmese python

• White tail deer

Over 40% of endangered species in the United States are at risk due to impacts from _____.

• invasive species

• climate change

• pollution

• overexploitation

What does HIPPCO stand for?

• Hippopotamus

• Habitat loss, invasive species, population grown, pollution, climate change, over-exploitation

• Hippo, Invasive species, probability, pollution, climate change, over-exploitation

• Horticulture, industrial revolution, pollution, carbon dioxide, oxygen depletion

The greatest threat to wild species is _____.

• the spread of invasive species

• habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation

• human population growth

• over-harvesting

How does a species become extinct?

• Catastrophic natural event kills all of the organisms.

• Unable to adapt to changing environmental conditions.

• Unable to successfully reproduce in changing environmental conditions.

• All of these.

Species that has so few individual survivors that the species could soon become extinct.

• Vulnerable species

• Threatened species

• Endangered species

Introduction of a nonnative species can NEVER be beneficial to humans.

• True

• False

Which term refers to the increase in a toxin in organisms as you move up a food chain?

• Bioaccumulation

• Overexploitation

• Biomagnification

• Biological extinction

For a population to maintain enough genetic diversity for the species to maintain its capacity for biological evolution, how many individuals must there be?

• 10

• 100

• 1000

• 10,000+

What would the pollination of crops be an example of?

• A valuable ecosystem or economic service

• A reason the extinction rate is rising

• An example of overexploitation

• An explanation of human population growth