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Magikarpmaster629 wrote:I'm allowed to make new Question Marathons, right?


So Invasive Species will probably be the Bio ID event next year, and I plan on doing it. If anyone else wants to prepare for it now, here is the Question Marathon!

Links:

http://scioly.org/wiki/index.php/Invasive_Species
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species
Rules used for the Quesion Marathon (trial event 2013):
http://www.wright.edu/scienceolympiad/r ... pecies.pdf

The Sea Lamprey is invasive to the Great Lakes.
1. How did it get there?
2. What is its genus and species?
3. Where is it native to?
4. What are some strategies that could keep it away from the Great Lakes region?

Magikarpmaster629 wrote:I'm allowed to make new Question Marathons, right?


So Invasive Species will probably be the Bio ID event next year, and I plan on doing it. If anyone else wants to prepare for it now, here is the Question Marathon!

Links:

http://scioly.org/wiki/index.php/Invasive_Species
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species
Rules used for the Quesion Marathon (trial event 2013):
http://www.wright.edu/scienceolympiad/r ... pecies.pdf


The Sea Lamprey is invasive to the Great Lakes.
1. How did it get there?
2. What is its genus and species?
3. Where is it native to?
4. What are some strategies that could keep it away from the Great Lakes region?

Went through the Welland Canal and Erie Canal from New York; Petromyzon marinus; Finger Lakes and Lake Champlain (New York and Vermont); electrical currents, "lampricides," barriers, etc.

UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:For all of you Southwesterners and Southeasterners out there!
Identify by common name and scientific name:
How does it affect the native species?
Where is it native to?
How was it introduced?

1. Alligator Weed, [i]Alternanthera philoxeroides[/i]
2. Crowds out native species
3. South America
4. Accidental water ballast

Magikarpmaster629 wrote:

UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:For all of you Southwesterners and Southeasterners out there!
Identify by common name and scientific name:
How does it affect the native species?
Where is it native to?
How was it introduced?

Sorry! I kind of forgot about this thread (oops :oops: ) but I think I have the answer. (Click to Show Hidden Text)

1. Alligator Weed, [i]Alternanthera philoxeroides[/i]
2. Crowds out native species
3. South America
4. Accidental water ballast

Magikarpmaster629 wrote:

Here's a gastropod! (Click to Show Hidden Text)

[img]http://www.exotic-pet-care.co.uk/images/news/petadvice/invertibrates/advice-invertibrate-caringforgiantafricanlandsnail.jpg[/img]
1. Scientific and Common name
2. How was it introduced?
3. It is a vector for diseases that affect what?

Achatina fulica, giant African snail, introduced by pet trade, food resources, and (of course) accidentally, meningitis