Biodiversity & Conservation

Question 1

What are three types of biodiversity?

Answer 1

Genetic diversity species diversity, economic diversity

Question 2

Why is biodiversity important?

Answer 2

Humans depend on biodiversity through food, clothing, energy, and medicine.

Question 3

What are the direct and indirect values of biodiversity?

Answer 3

Direct economic value and indirect economic value

Question 4

How is the current extinction rate different from the background extinction rate?

Answer 4

It is different because more and more factors that continue to increase extinction rates are being used

Question 5

How can the decline of a single species affect an entire ecosystem?

Answer 5

If a major predator dies out, then animals that they kill can grow at a rate too fast for the ecosystem to live along with the organisms inside.