Conservation
The prevention of wasteful use of a resource.
What is Conservation?
The variety of life in an ecosystem.
What is Biodiversity?
Things that prevent a population from growing, like food or water.
What are Limiting Factors?
The effects that humans have on an ecosystem.
What is Human Impact?
The term for animals moving to a new location for food or climate.
What is Migration?
Name one benefit of conservation efforts.
What is protecting endangered species or preserving habitats?
Biodiversity when habitats are destroyed.
What is it decreases?
Space acts as a Limiting Factor for plants by.
What is competition for sunlight, room for growth, or water?
Pollution that comes from cars and factories.
What is air pollution or trash.
What is seasonal Migration?
Areas often protected by governments for conservation.
What are national parks or wildlife reserves?
One ecosystem with high biodiversity.
Sunlight is a Limiting Factor in deep ocean environments because.
What is not enough sunlight for deep ocean plants?
The term for gasses that trap heat in Earth's atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gasses?
Term for when animals leave an area permanently.
What is Emigration?
One way that you can help conserve water.
What is using less water?
Biodiversity is important to ecosystems because.
What is it helps maintain balance and stability?
Disease acts like a Limiting Factor by.
What is reducing population size?
The Human Activity that is a major source of ocean pollution.
What is plastic waste or oil spills?
The term for animals moving into a new area.
What is Immigration?
The definition of an endangered species and why conservation helps them.
What is a species at risk of extinction, and conservation helps protect it?
What is less starvation or competition?
Predators act as Limiting Factors in an ecosystem by.
What is they control prey populations?
The term for destruction of forests by Human Activity
What is deforestation?
Why birds migrate thousands of miles.
What is the search of food, better climate, or to breed?