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?