bio Diverse City

Question 1

biodiversity

Answer 1

Number and variety of different types of species in a given area
-source of food shelter medicine etc.

Question 2

non-renewable resources

Answer 2

can’t be replenished by nature within our lifetime

-fossil fuels are oil, coal, gas

Question 3

renewable resources

Answer 3

can be restored by nature in lifetime

-examples are water carbon oxygen wind and sun’s energy

Question 4

negative human impact on the environment

Answer 4

• habitat destruction
• Poor land use/management
• resource depletion
• invasive species, pollution, loss of biodiversity

Question 5

habitat destruction

Answer 5

• Causes almost 75% of extinctions

- deforestation for farming and land for building

Question 6

resource depletion

Answer 6

• Society heavily relies on non-renewable resources

- tend to deplete and pollute renewable resources (water air forests etc.)

Question 7

water pollution

Answer 7

-Chemical waste like heavy metals, fertilizers, pesticides and heat are discharged into water. Either from dumping or run off

Question 8

what makes an ecosystem stable

Answer 8

more producers than consumers, needs constant input of energy, decomposers to recycle nutrients, biodiversecity

Question 9

bioaccumulation

Answer 9

increase in the concentration of a chemical in an organism over time

Question 10

Air pollution

Answer 10

contaminates air we breathe, produces acid rain and contributes to global warming

Question 11

acid rain

Answer 11

acidic precipitation kills plant life and disrupts food chain

Question 12

invasive species

Answer 12

organisms that are non-native to the area that were newly introduced to

• population explodes because they don’t have natural predators
• disrupts stable ecosystem

Question 13

loss of biodiversity

Answer 13

• due to direct harvesting, the destruction or removal of species from their habitats
• causes species to become endangered or extinct

Question 14

Global Warming

Answer 14

an average increase in the earths temperature which causes climate change
-caused by more CO2 & other greenhouse gases being added to atmosphere from burning of fossil fuels and deforestation (industrialization)

Question 15

greenhouse effect

Answer 15

heat is trapped in earths atmosphere due to greenhouse gases

Question 16

evidence of global warming

Answer 16

rising sea levels, melting snow and ice, increased atmospheric temperature, changes in animal and plant behavior

Question 17

ozone depletion

Answer 17

• industrial gases and CFC’s destroy ozone layer
• ozone layer protects organisms from UV rays
• ozone depletion not caused BY CO2
• depletion will increase skin cancer and damage autotrophs