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Adelie
Penguins
Food
Web
Risk
Status
Climate
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Bonus Question: 5000 pts
Topic 1: 200
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The staple food of Adelie penguins
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What is krill?
Topic 1: 400
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The nesting material of Adelie penguins
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What are penguins?
Topic 1: 600
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Surrounds Adelie penguins’ eyes
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What are white circles?
Topic 1: 800
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• The dominant sense that Adelie penguins use
for hunting
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• What is eyesight?
Topic 1: 1000
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• The number of days it takes for Adelie penguin
eggs to hatch
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• What is 35-37?
Topic 2: 200
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The most dangerous seal for Adelie penguins
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What is a Leopard seal?
Topic 2: 400
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An Antarctic decomposer
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What is filamentous fungi?
Topic 2: 600
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• A secondary consumer that competes with
Adelie penguins for food
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• What is a Weddell seal?
Topic 2: 800
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The main food of krill in the summer
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What is phytoplankton?
Topic 2: 1000
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The main food of krill during the winter
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What is ice algae?
Topic 3: 200
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• Exhaustive studies fail to record an individual
of a taxon
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• What is a definition of extinct?
Topic 3: 400
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• Population, geographic range, and
fragamentation
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• What are factors used to identify an
endangered taxon?
Topic 3: 600
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• Critically Endangered. Endangered, Vulnerable
and Near Threatened
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• What are the main categories of risk status?
Topic 3: 800
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• The term used to designate a species that is
facing an extremely high risk of extinction
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• What is critically endangered?
Topic 3: 1000
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• There is inadequate information to make a
direct or indirect assessment of a taxon’s risk
of extinction
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• What is the category of “Data Deficient”?
Topic 4: 200
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• Releases carbon dioxide in lakes during warm
spells
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• What is dead algae?
Topic 4: 400
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Climate change causes melting of these
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What are glaciers and icecaps?
Topic 4: 600
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Two opposing impacts of climate change
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What are drought and flooding?
Topic 4: 800
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• An approach to reducing emissions of carbon
dioxide in an attempt to lower green house
gas emissions and slow global warming
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• What is carbon neutrality?
Topic 4: 1000
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• Three of the six factors that reduce Adelie
poplulations around Palmer Station
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• 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
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• A form of pollution that travels through the air
and warms the atmosphere
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• What are greenhouse gases?
Topic 5: 400
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• Climate change results in these kinds of
unpredictable occurrences that harm humans
as well as natural and built environments
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• What are severe weather events?
Topic 5: 600
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• Travels through the air, land and water bodies
disrupting the water cycle
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• What is pollution?
Topic 5: 800
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Warmer water holds less of this
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What is oxygen?
Topic 5: 1000
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• Low oxygen, warm water promotes this
“green” phenomenon
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• What is an algae bloom?
Bonus Question:
5000 pts.
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• Replacing automobile use with active and
public transit modes, supporting carbon
neutral actions and companies, following the
three R’s . . .
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• What are ways to reduce global climate
change and to protect penguins and their
habitat?
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