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WorksheetsALAN impacts on organisms
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 5mins
ALAN from a bridge in British Columbia has which effect on Harbor Seals and Salmon. (Yurk & Trites, 2000).
Seals can see Salmon more clearly, making it easy to hunt them.
Harbor Seals have difficulty hunting as Salmon are deterred by the light.
Has no effect on Seals and Salmon.
ALAN has which effect on mice? (Bedrosian et al. 2013)
Increases sleep
Creates anxiety
Creates a depressed like state
Both options 2 and 3.
Great tits made what change due to ALAN? (Holveck et al. 2019)
No longer live in cities.
Built thin nests with the entrance hidden
Hunt at night
ALAN has which effect on the Australian garden orb web spider? (Willmott et al. 2018)
sexual maturation occurs earlier
sexual maturation occurs later
sexual maturation occurs as normal
If the orb web spider matures earlier, what does this mean for its offspring?
(Willmott et al. 2018)
the spider has more offspring
the spider has less offspring
the spider doesn't have any offspring
crayfish hide when exposed to ALAN (Thomas et al. 2016)
true
false
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