Test 2

Question 1

Genetic Diversity

Answer 1

total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species

Question 2

Biodiversity Hotspot

Answer 2

Region supports a great number of endemic species

Question 3

Extinction

Answer 3

Species ceases to exist

Question 4

Extirpation

Answer 4

Disappearance of a population from a given

area, but not entire species globally

Question 5

Background rate of extinction

Answer 5

Estimated a continuous, low rate of extinction of species during most of the history
of life on earth

Question 6

Mass extinction events

Answer 6

rapid decrease in the amount of life on Earth

Question 7

Red List

Answer 7

Become the world’s
standard for listing
threatened species

Question 8

Conservation Biology

Answer 8

Aims to reestablish the 
processes-cycling of matter 
& the flow of energy-that 
make an ecosystem 
function

Question 9

endangered species act

Answer 9

Forbids the government & private citizens from
taking actions that destroy endangered species or
taking actions that destroy endangered species or
their habitats

Question 10

captive breeding

Answer 10

Involves collecting wild eggs laid by critically endangered
bird species and hatching them in zoos or research
centers

Question 11

egg pulling

Answer 11

Some or all of the wild individuals of a critically

endangered species are collected for breeding in captivity

Question 12

endangered species

Answer 12

So few
individual survivors that the
species could soon become
extinct

Question 13

threatened species

Answer 13

Still has 
enough remaining individuals to 
survive in the short term but 
because of declining numbers it 
is likely to become endangered 
in the near future

Question 14

seed banks

Answer 14

Preserve genetic information & endangered plant
species by storing their seeds in refrigerated, low-
humidity environments

Question 15

gene banks

Answer 15

preserve genetic material

Question 16

de-extinction

Answer 16

process of creating an organism, which is either a member of, or resembles an extinct species, or breeding population of such organisms.