Invasive Species PowerPoint/ Google Slide Show
Choose an animal, plant, or fungi to research, and answer the questions below. Use at least 4 secondary sources and 2 primary sources, and create a Works Cited (to go at the end of the PowerPoint). Cite each source that is used in your PowerPoint. Most slides should have an image. Include at least 2 links to YouTube videos. You will create a minimum 14 slide PowerPoint. (See below for more details)
LAYOUT OF YOUR POWERPOINT:
Title Slide
Locations/Environments (5 slides)
What is the native habitat of the species?
What are its natural predators in its native habitat?
How was the species introduced into the area?
What areas has it spread to?
What kind of climates and environments can it live in?
Effect on the Ecosystem (3 slides)
What are its characteristics that make it competitive with other native species?
How does it kill off other native plants and animals?
How does it damage the local food web?
Humans and the Invasive Species (4 slides)
Does it have a direct negative effect on humans? If not, explain why not.
How does it harm humans indirectly? (Damage to agriculture, transportation, infrastructure, etc)
What are the efforts humans are doing to reduce or eliminate the species? (hunting, removal, insecticides, introducing natural predator)
How much money do people spend each year on reducing the effects of the species? Do you think it is worth it to try to reduce or eliminate this species?
Works Cited Slide
You will be able to choose one of the following species:
Animals
Amphibians: Cane toad Mollusk: Giant East Africa Snail
Reptiles: Burmese python Brown tree snake Nile monitor lizard Boa constrictor
Birds: European starling House sparrow Feral Rock pigeon
Mammals: Wild boar/ Feral pig European rabbit Eastern gray squirrel Brown rat
Black rat Mongoose Nutria (Coypu) Wild horse
Ocean/River Animals: Sea lamprey Lionfish Asian carp Zebra mussel Warty comb jelly
Insects: Red imported fire ant Africanized bee Asian tiger mosquito Formosan termite Asian long-horned beetle Spotted wing Drosophila suzukii (fruit fly)
Plants
Common Water Hyacinth Japanese knotweed Brazilian pepper tree Kudzu
Giant Salvinia Hydrilla Tasmanian blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) Purple Loosestrife
Fungi
Lethal amphibian fungus: Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, commonly known as chytrid
Lethal reptile fungus: Chrysosporium (kills snakes)
White-nose syndrome: Pseudogymnoascus destructans (kills bats)
Two good sites: http://www.issg.org/ (Invasive Species Specialist Group) http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/
Choose an animal, plant, or fungi to research, and answer the questions below. Use at least 4 secondary sources and 2 primary sources, and create a Works Cited (to go at the end of the PowerPoint). Cite each source that is used in your PowerPoint. Most slides should have an image. Include at least 2 links to YouTube videos. You will create a minimum 14 slide PowerPoint. (See below for more details)
LAYOUT OF YOUR POWERPOINT:
Title Slide
Locations/Environments (5 slides)
What is the native habitat of the species?
What are its natural predators in its native habitat?
How was the species introduced into the area?
What areas has it spread to?
What kind of climates and environments can it live in?
Effect on the Ecosystem (3 slides)
What are its characteristics that make it competitive with other native species?
How does it kill off other native plants and animals?
How does it damage the local food web?
Humans and the Invasive Species (4 slides)
Does it have a direct negative effect on humans? If not, explain why not.
How does it harm humans indirectly? (Damage to agriculture, transportation, infrastructure, etc)
What are the efforts humans are doing to reduce or eliminate the species? (hunting, removal, insecticides, introducing natural predator)
How much money do people spend each year on reducing the effects of the species? Do you think it is worth it to try to reduce or eliminate this species?
Works Cited Slide
You will be able to choose one of the following species:
Animals
Amphibians: Cane toad Mollusk: Giant East Africa Snail
Reptiles: Burmese python Brown tree snake Nile monitor lizard Boa constrictor
Birds: European starling House sparrow Feral Rock pigeon
Mammals: Wild boar/ Feral pig European rabbit Eastern gray squirrel Brown rat
Black rat Mongoose Nutria (Coypu) Wild horse
Ocean/River Animals: Sea lamprey Lionfish Asian carp Zebra mussel Warty comb jelly
Insects: Red imported fire ant Africanized bee Asian tiger mosquito Formosan termite Asian long-horned beetle Spotted wing Drosophila suzukii (fruit fly)
Plants
Common Water Hyacinth Japanese knotweed Brazilian pepper tree Kudzu
Giant Salvinia Hydrilla Tasmanian blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) Purple Loosestrife
Fungi
Lethal amphibian fungus: Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, commonly known as chytrid
Lethal reptile fungus: Chrysosporium (kills snakes)
White-nose syndrome: Pseudogymnoascus destructans (kills bats)
Two good sites: http://www.issg.org/ (Invasive Species Specialist Group) http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/