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What is true
Introduced Species are beneficial to the environment
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What are native species
Plants and animals that naturally inhabit an area
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What is Garry Oak Ecosystem Recovery Team
What does GOERT stand for
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What are 72 young
How many young can a female rat produce per year
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What is false
Scotch Broom are not a tough species to control
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What are introduced species
Transported plants, animals or micro-organisms into regions where they did not exist previously
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What is the Scotch Broom
Major threat to Garry Oak ecosystem?
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What is the Eurasian Milfoil
Introduced invasive species that were identified in the Okanagan Lake
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What is false
All introduced species are invasive species
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What are invasive species
Organisms that can take over the habitat of native species or invade their bodies
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What is the Eurasian milfoil and Norway rat
Two species that are at risk in BC
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What is a decorative plant
What was the Scotch Broom introduced as in the late 1800’s
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What is true
Garry Oak Trees are considered keystone species
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What are introduced species
Also known as exotic species
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What is restoring the ecosystem
What is GOERT trying to do, to make the ecosystem a better place
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What is the Norway Rat
Escaped from fur trading ships and came to BC
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What is false
Introduced species may be referred to as non-native, exotic or weird species
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What are invasive species
This type of species may weaken other species immune systems
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What is competition, predation, disease/parasites and habitat alteration
Five ways introduced species affect ecosystems
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What is the change of structure and composition
How does the introduction of an invasive plant species alter a habitat for other plants and animals?
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