Threatend Habitats

Question 1

Define biodiversity

Answer 1

The variety of all life forms including the genes, species and ecosystems of an environment

Question 2

Define deforestation

Answer 2

The total clearing of the forest from an area

Question 3

Define endangered

Answer 3

A species in danger of extinction

Question 4

Define extinct

Answer 4

The dying out of an entire species of animal or plant.

Question 5

Define desertification

Answer 5

The process by which useful agricultural areas on desert fringes become deserts due to poor farming practises.

Question 6

Define resources

Answer 6

Anything of value that could be used to produce goods and services.

Question 7

Define biodiversity

Answer 7

Diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat.

Question 8

List the order in which a species is classified based on their endangerment (7)

Answer 8

Least concern, near threatened, vulnerable, endangered, critically endangered, extinct in the wild, extinct.

Question 9

Define endemic

Answer 9

Native or restricted to a certain place

Question 10

Define threatened habitats

Answer 10

A habitat that faces the possibility of real harm being done it it.