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What risk levels go before (less severe) and after (more severe) "threatened"?

1. Special Concern 2. Endangered

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What is the difference between interspecific and intraspecific competition?

inter - across different species / intra - within the same species

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Give an example of intraspecific competition.

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Name three abiotic limiting factors

Amount of sunlight/water/soil, natural disturbances, human interferences

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Describe, with an example, one way to control invasive species.

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Describe top-down regulation.

A process where the abundance of organisms in higher trophic levels affect the abundance of organisms in lower trophic levels.

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When a species' population is declining below a certain level, they are classified as...

Species at Risk

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Compare the population of rabbit to the population of Lynx.

As rabbit populations increase so do lynx (more food), causing rabbit populations to decrease (overhunting), thus lynx populations fall again

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Describe the human niche.

Humans have a very board niche due to our intellectual and technological advancements. We are able to build, control, and expand in many different ecosystems!

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How do invasive species negatively impact natural environments?

They outcompete naties species, likely because they have no natural controls in the new ecosystem.

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What is one activity that negatively impacts ecosystem sustainability?

E.g. overfishing reduces population of fish so drastically that many fish are not able to reproduce quickly enough to sustain its' population

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Give an example of stewardship.

E.g., re-introducing Elk in Ontario to increase biodiversity, implementing Smart Growth, reforestation

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How are sustainability and biodiveristy related?

For sustainability to presist, we need biodiveristy to be maintained.

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