Chapter+Questions

CHAPTER 1

1.Luxembourg is located between Germany,Belgium, and France. In luxembourg they mainly speak two languages french and german. 2.As a country luxembourg is MDC commercial finance. Clues that tell us this is that luxembourg has a military base located on it so they would probably get more support to help its citizens. 3.Lxuxembourg has growth rate of 1.27 percent mainly because of its refugees and immagrants. Population growth is sustainable just like in many countries but the main effect is climate change. 4.The average ecological footprint on luxembourg is 9.5 global hectares this isnt too high compared to the average income of a luxembourg native.

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

1. A typical food web in luxembourg consists of a few common foods. They eat many desserts, dairy products, and meats. They eat sausages,fish,pork,chicken,jams, potatoes, cheese, pate, soups, and salads. 2.NPP is the net amount of biomass produced each year by plants; it is a major indicator for trophic energy flows in ecosystems. In luxembourg they have many ranges of plant species which would make their NPP rate very high among countries such as a courntry like egypt which little plant populations. 3.Carnivores in Luxembourg consist of Brown bears, wild cats, Arctic wolves, cross fox, badger,Ermines, and Beech mertens. The Main omnivore in Luxembourg is the Brown Bear. Thes are many of the species that reside in luxembourg. Brown bears being on the top of the luxembourg food chain, because of them being omnivores they can survive a lot eaier than animals such as foxes which suffer when their main preys population size crashes. 4.The luxembourgish residents have a large effect on the nutrient cycle of their environments. They have many livestock which they use the manure and urine for fertilizers which help people plant, plants and do many gardening jobs. This changes the natural fertilization because were adding more nutrients then normal into the plants in which they fertilize with the manure. 5.Luxembourg really isn't a popular well known counrty globally and there isn't much if any research accessable to the average person. Im sure in the future there will be more research so people around the globe can learn about this counrty.

CHAPTER 4

1. There are no listed hotspots of biodiversity in luxembourg. 2. Couldnt find information, but im sure there is. Luxembourg 3.

 Warm weather from May to September and snow likely during winter months. The north (the Ardennes region) tends to be wetter and colder than the south. This meaning the animals had to either learn to adapt to the changing climate by either enduring physical changes or by migrating until the warmer seasons 4.

__CHAPTER 5__

1. A. Brown Bears hunting fish on a rivers edge fight over space. B. A parasite found in luxembourg is called a water mite which is brought to the water by flying insects and then the mite goes and lives in the water. There were around 30 different species of the mite found in the waters. As for which animal or plant is the host is unknown. C. At one time the wolves and tigers both shared the same territory without harming eachother showing a degree of commensalism. D. The foxes eat the Rabbits which is beneficial to the fox but does no good to the rabbit. E. A bird guides a badger to bee hives which the badger tears apart and eats the honey from it. 2. These populations live in clumps together around all of the rich resources. There are many spots where the water is, is where many animal lives do to the amount of resources in the area. 3. Raccoons and brown bears are an example of k selective species found in Luxembourg. Weasels and Mice are an example of R selective species found here. 4. The environment in luxembourg is mainly primary succession apposed to secondary. 5. This is due to the resilience of the animals and the resiliance of the environment and its ability to stay stable through many damaging problems and situations.

__CHAPTER 6__ 1. The current world population is at an estimated 6,852,472,823. The current population growth rate of the Earth's population is 1.3%. Earths rate is faster then the actual number for earth meaning we are most likely going to exceed earths carry capacity. 2.