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Your TopicAdelie Penguins

Food Web

Risk Status

Climate Change

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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?

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You Are Willing To RiskIf You get the Question right you win that money.

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