Reference no: EM133191598 , Length: Word count: 4 Pages
Assignment Part A:
Watch video: Biodiversity hotspot case study: California
Then answer these questions and conduct research if you cannot answer them from the film. Include as much detail as is needed to answer the entire question.
Question 1: Where is the California Floristic Province located?
Question 2: What is the California Floristic Province?
Question 3: What does endemic mean?
Question 4: What has allowed for the high biological richness and endemism in California?
Question 5: What makes the CA Floristic Province so unique?
Assignment Part B: Visit the California Fish and Wildlife website and locate the California Wildlife Habitat Relationships System part of the website. Then answer the following questions:
Question 1: What is the CWHR system?
Question 2: How many habitats are described in California?
Question 3: What are the 6 main categories? What is the most dominant category?
Question 4: Make a list of your favorite two habitats for the 5 MAIN (excluding non-vegetation) CATEGORY (Total of 10).
Question 5: In 2002, marine and estuarine habitat classifications were created. Go to the website you stared at and scroll down to the Marine PDF. How many are there?
Question 6: Make a list of your favorite two marine habitats.
Question 7: Go to the bottom of the CWHR system page and research each of the following habitat classifications by clicking on the PDF link (text account): Saline Emergent Wetland, Perennial Grassland, Annual Grassland, Valley Foothill Riparian, Valley Oak Woodland, Coastal Scrub, Redwood, Coastal Oak Woodland, Sierran Mixed Conifer, and Joshua Tree.
Question 8: For EACH habitat type listed in question 7research the following: bioregion found in, climate type, any geological features, plant specialties, animal specialties, and any environmental issues.