Biodiversity & Conservation

Question 1

What are 3 types of Biodiversity?

Answer 1

genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity

Question 2

Why is biodiversity important?

Answer 2

Humans depend on biodiversity for clothes, food, medication, and for other stuff.

Question 3

What are the indirect values of biodiversity?

Answer 3

Green plants, aesthetic value, and natural processes that provide drinking water.

Question 4

Direct Values of biodiversity

Answer 4

Plants, medicine, animals/plants that have a desirable genetic trait.

Question 5

What are the threats to biodiversity?

Answer 5

overexploitation, habitat loss, fragmentation of habitat, and pollution.

Question 6

How is the current extinction rate different from the back round extinction rate?

Answer 6

More animals are becoming extinct.

Question 7

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

Answer 7

If you take too much of a species from its ecosystem it becomes too depleted to recover then the whole ecosystem can collapse.

Question 8

Overexploitation

Answer 8

excessive use, of species that have economic value.

Question 9

Biological Magnification

Answer 9

increasing concentration of toxic substances in organisms as trophic levels increase in a food chain or food web.

Question 10

What are the two classes of natural resources?

Answer 10

renewable and non-renewable

Question 11

What are the methods used to conserve biodiversity?

Answer 11

Corridors and sustainable use.

Question 12

What are two techniques used to restore biodiversity?

Answer 12

bioremediation and biological augmentation

Question 13

Endemic

Answer 13

species are only found in one specific geographic location.