Quiz 3

40pts total (4pts each question)

take home issued Thursday 7 July

due Monday 11 July @ beginning of class

(use your book and notes to support the answers, reference all material

*****double side paper, 12 pt. font ONLY, write well, check grammar & spelling, photos and maps welcome)

• 1.    Use your biodiversity case study project for this take home exam

• 2.    Identify an indicator species in your hotspot and explain why it is an indicator species.

• 3.   What is the range of tolerance, limiting factors, habitat and ecosystem for the species

• 4.    What is its geographic range pre-human impact and since human impact.

• 5.    What are humans doing to affect the species?

• 6.    What are natural factors affecting the species?

• 7.    Climate change scenario: Using the Energy Balance Equation, what is the current Temperature of planet Earth now? Substitute a changing Albedo (A) to 35% and a changing Absorption (F) to 85%.  What is the new Temperature in F (need to transpose from K) ? How does this affect this species given the parameters? Remember latitude and altitude changes.

• 8.    What is a keystone species for this area?

• 9.    How does it keep the ecosystem in ecological check?

• 10.    How does this keystone species interact with the indicator species?

Bonus Question: What is the G8? and what is the position of Pres. Bush and the USA? You are now President what would you do now concerning G8?