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Your Topic Adelie Penguins Food Web Risk Status Climate Change Making Connections Bonus Question: 5000 pts

Topic 1: 200 Question: The staple food of Adelie penguins Answer What is krill?

Topic 1: 400 Question: The nesting material of Adelie penguins Answer What are penguins?

Topic 1: 600 Question: Surrounds Adelie penguins’ eyes Answer What are white circles?

Topic 1: 800 Question: The dominant sense that Adelie penguins use for hunting Answer What is eyesight?

Topic 1: 1000 Question: The number of days it takes for Adelie penguin eggs to hatch Answer What is 35-37?

Topic 2: 200 Question: The most dangerous seal for Adelie penguins Answer What is a Leopard seal?

Topic 2: 400 Question: An Antarctic decomposer Answer What is filamentous fungi?

Topic 2: 600 Question: A secondary consumer that competes with Adelie penguins for food Answer What is a Weddell seal?

Topic 2: 800 Question: The main food of krill in the summer Answer What is phytoplankton?

Topic 2: 1000 Question: The main food of krill during the winter Answer What is ice algae?

Topic 3: 200 Question: Exhaustive studies fail to record an individual of a taxon Answer What is a definition of extinct?

Topic 3: 400 Question: Population, geographic range, and fragamentation Answer What are factors used to identify an endangered taxon?

Topic 3: 600 Question: Critically Endangered. Endangered, Vulnerable and Near Threatened Answer What are the main categories of risk status?

Topic 3: 800 Question: The term used to designate a species that is facing an extremely high risk of extinction Answer What is critically endangered?

Topic 3: 1000 Question: There is inadequate information to make a direct or indirect assessment of a taxon’s risk of extinction Answer What is the category of “Data Deficient”?

Topic 4: 200 Question: Releases carbon dioxide in lakes during warm spells Answer What is dead algae?

Topic 4: 400 Question: Climate change causes melting of these Answer What are glaciers and icecaps?

Topic 4: 600 Question: Two opposing impacts of climate change Answer What are drought and flooding?

Topic 4: 800 Question: An approach to reducing emissions of carbon dioxide in an attempt to lower green house gas emissions and slow global warming Answer What is carbon neutrality?

Topic 4: 1000 Question: Three of the six factors that reduce Adelie poplulations around Palmer Station Answer What is increased snowfall, less sea ice in winter, less krill, less protection from predators, and higher egg loss and chick mortality? (any three)

Topic 5: 200 Question: A form of pollution that travels through the air and warms the atmosphere Answer What are greenhouse gases?

Topic 5: 400 Question: Climate change results in these kinds of unpredictable occurrences that harm humans as well as natural and built environments Answer What are severe weather events?

Topic 5: 600 Question: Travels through the air, land and water bodies disrupting the water cycle Answer What is pollution?

Topic 5: 800 Question: Warmer water holds less of this Answer What is oxygen?

Topic 5: 1000 Question: Low oxygen, warm water promotes this “green” phenomenon Answer What is an algae bloom?

Bonus Question: 5000 pts. Question: Replacing automobile use with active and public transit modes, supporting carbon neutral actions and companies, following the three R’s... Answer What are ways to reduce global climate change and to protect penguins and their habitat?

The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question right you win that money If you get it wrong you lose the money!

The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question right you win that money. If you get it wrong you Lose the money!