1. What is your name as it appears on your TEACH account?
2. What is your address?
3. What is your date of birth?
5. Describe why it is so easy for invasive species to break the rules of “checks and balances” in a natural environment where they are NOT a native species?
6. What are some “intentional” and “unintentional” ways people have introduced invasive species to North America?
7. What led to the massive population of the invasive species known as the Burmese Python in the Florida Everglades?
8. New York State developed a partnership program known as the PRISMs. How is the Partnership For Regional Invasive Species Management organized and what is its main function?
9. What does it mean when an invasive plant “blankets” the area they have invaded?
10. Why did the entomologist Doug Tallamy credit the monarch butterfly with “doing us a huge favor” within the last ten years?
11. The idea that invasive species are “everywhere” might seem overwhelming for the public. What do scientists suggest landowners do to help combat this problem in a more manageable way?
12. List the three ways the general public can help stop the spread of invasive species in their local areas mentioned in the “What Can You Do?” section of this documentary.