Definition 1
Diversity of life forms in an environment
What is biodiversity?
The sum of all the conditions surrounding us that affect life.
What is an environment?
A particular location on earth with interacting biotic and abiotic components.
What is an ecosystem?
Salim Ali, Rajendra Singh, Medha Patkar
Who are these environmentalists?
provisioning, regulating, culture, and supporting services
What are ecosystem services?
Love for life
What is a biophile?
Derived from human activities
What is anthropogenic?
Improvement in human well-being through economic advancement.
What is development?
Monarch butterflies and house sparrows
What is species?
Rocks, Paper, Scissors, Shoes
What is Abiotic?
Something living
What is an biotic?
The number of times a measurement is replicated in data collection
What is sample size?
A prediction that there is no difference between groups or conditions, or a statement or an idea that can be falsified, or proved wrong
What is a null hypothesis?
Different plant breeds are crossbred to get the desired trait in a particular plant.
What is genetic diversity?
When doing experiments you often use these steps.
What is the scientific method?
A hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers and has reached wide acceptance
What is a theroy?
A measure of how much an individual consumes is expressed in the area of land.
What is an ecological footprint?
In scientific investigation, a group that experiences exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, except for the single variable under study.
What is a control group?
Researcher tests whether or not a new fertilizer has an effect on plant growth.
What is an control group?
Species extinction rates and threatened species
What is an Environmental indicator?
The evolution of new species
What is specification?
the number of species in a region or in a particular type of habitat
What is species diversity?
Hydraulic fracturing, a method of oil and gas extraction that uses high-pressure fluids to force open cracks in rocks deep underground.
What is fracking?
1 species of bird would be expected to go extinct every 400 years
What is the background extinction rate?
A way to do this could be switching to reusable products
What is sustainable development?