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WorksheetsBiogeography ( Affects on Species Dispersal)
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
The study of where organisms live and how they got there is called
Biogeography
Ecology
Gastroenterology
Biology
Who study factors that have led to the worldwide distribution of species that exist today?
Geographers
Biogeographers
Ecologists
Physiologists
What is one factor that has affected how species are distributed?
The movement of heat.
Sunlight
The movement of the Earth's continent.
The changes of climate.
As the plates move, the continents move with them in a process called
Tarnishing
Movement Plate
Continental Slope
Continental Drift
About 225 million years ago, all the continents were part of one huge landmass, called
Pangaea
Heraea
Earthina
Zantra
What are examples of distributing species?
Continental Drift
Wind
Water
Living Things
What are factors that can limit species dispersal?
Physical Barriers
Competition
Climate
Water
What is dispersal?
The movement of wind and water.
The process in which plates shift away.
The movement of organisms from one place to another.
The process in which organisms die but reborns afterwards.
What can cause dispersal?
Living Things
Gravity
Wind
Watee
Which can help disperse living things by wind?
Birds
Minerals
Fungi Spores
Seeds
Water can disperse organisms such as
Fish
Salt Content
Leaves
Marine Mammals
What is an exotic species?
An organism that is carried into a new location by people.
Species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future.
A species that influences the survival of many other species.
The first species to populate an area.
What are some forms of physical barriers?
Wind and climate
Mountains and water
Competition and trees
Mountains and rocks
