Invasive Species Webquest

Each link provided will help you answer the questions for each section. DO NOT COPY THE

WORDS DOWN, put them in your own words.

Go to > https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/what-are-invasive-species

1. What are invasive species?

Go to > http://water.epa.gov/type/oceb/habitat/invasive_species_index.cfm

● Click on invasive species (under watershed)

1. Why are invasive species causing concern?

2. What is being done to try to control invasive species?

 3. What are some economic consequences of invasive species?

Go to > https://www.texasinvasives.org/i101/

1. Invasive species are also referred to as?

2. What is the problem with those names?

Click on “eco alerts by region”. Then click on fort worth on the Texas map.

3. How many invasive species affect our area?

Click on one of the invasive species listed. Answer the following questions regarding the

invasive species you have chosen.

4. Why is your invasive species an ecological threat?

5. How does your invasive species spread?

Go to > https://texasinvasives.org/zebramussels/

1. How many larvae can invasive mussels produce per year?

2. How do invasive mussels cause environmental and economic damage?

 3. How do invasive mussels hurt us all?

Go to > https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/nuisance/feral_hogs/

● On the left side of the page, click on “Damage”.

1. Read the second paragraph. What damages do wild pigs (feral hogs) cause?

2. Read the fourth paragraph. In 2016 and 2019, what was estimated as the annual
loss to agriculture in Texas?

● Scroll down to Disease

1. Wild pigs (feral hogs) are capable of transmitting which diseases?