Actitiy 4 Quiz

Question 1

What is an ecological footprint?

Answer 1

a quantitative measurement that estimates the amount of resources consumed and waste produced by an individual, a community, a population, or even a manufactured product.

Question 2

What is an invasive species?

Answer 2

A non-native species that enters a new area, causing harm to native species and the environment, the economy, or human health

Question 3

List the 4 invasive species from the activity?

Answer 3

• Round Goby
• Mongoose
• Zebra Mussels
• Giant Salvinea

Question 4

Wha can happend when a new species is introduced into an envronment?

Answer 4

They either die out or become established if its traits are advantages to its living in the new environment and if thereś an available habitat

Question 5

What factors usually determine if a species will have an impact on an environment?

Answer 5

If they repreduce rapidly, can tolerate in different conditions, and can find adequate food

Question 6

How do other organisms determine whether the invasive species will survive?

Answer 6

Depending on the types and numbers of otherorganisms, limitied resources, r competition

Question 7

Define Habitat

Answer 7

Specific location where an organism lives within an ecosystem

Question 8

Define non-native?

Answer 8

Whena species is introduced to an area were it is not naturally found

Question 9

When is a native species considered invasive?

Answer 9

It must cause harm to the economy, the environment, or human health

Question 10

How do invasive species affect sustainability?

Answer 10

Diminish sustainability by consuming resources and upsetting the typical interactions between species.

Question 11

List some facts about the Mongoose

Answer 11

Breed rapidly (2-5 pups per year)

• Imported to eat rats
• Eat a wide variety of foods

Question 12

List some facts about the zebra mussels

Answer 12

• Brought to Great Lakes by attacking to boats
• Feed by filtering algae from plankton
• Food shortage
• Organisms that it attaches to suffer
• Rapid reproduction (100,000 eggs per year)

Question 13

List some facts about eh Giant Salvinea

Answer 13

Blocks waterways with mats of vegetation

-Choke sunlight and oxygen out of water

Question 14

List some facts about the round goby

Answer 14

• Eat large quantities of food that affects other species
• Rapid pop growth : Female produces up to 5000 eggs each time
• Can live in a variety of habitats (hardy)

Question 15

What do all four species we studied have in common?

Answer 15

• reproduce rapidly
• No predators
• Adapt to their environment (hardy)
• Outcompete native species