The organization that concluded that the worldwide rate of clearcutting has been close to 1 percent per year.
(Page 60)
What is the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)?
200
What the tropical forests of Indonesia may one day reach.
What are critical damage levels?
200
Was most destructive in Paleolithic times
What is overharvesting
200
This species has yet to be rediscovered since its total destruction of the American chestnut tree. (Page 71)
What is the Chestnut fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica)?
200
"What role do the HIPPO forces play in affecting the environment?"
What is the question at issue?
200
According to _______, Zebra mussels clogging the intake pipes of electrical utilities and other damages will cost over $5 billion to fix by 2002.
What is U.S. Fisheries?
300
Before the arrival of humanity in Hawaii, many species traveled by way of this.
What are air currents?
300
The Hawaiian biota has been largley destroyed due to these.
What are invasive species?
300
These animals flop around with extra or missing limbs supposedly caused by chemical pollutants. (Page 55)
What is the leopard frog (Rana pipiens) or yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa)?
300
It is our duty to preserve as much of the Earth as possible for future generations.
What is a conclusion?
300
This organization projected that the acceleration of global mean surface temperature will continue, resulting in an increase of between 1.8 and 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit. (Page 67-68)
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
400
This is caused by the population being too small and results in widespread genetic defects among the species.
What is inbreeding depression?
400
The primary cause of the declining amphibian phenomenon.
What is habitat destruction?
400
They became extinct on Australia within a year and a half of its discovery. (Page 54)
What is the gastric breeding frog (Rheobatrachus vitellinus)?
400
Maintaining/increasing biodiversity is more preferable than not doing so.
What is an assumption?
400
This man maintains a small breeding population of Schaus' swallowtails. (Page 57)
Who is Thomas Emmel?
500
The droughts from the El Nino cycle combined with forest fires are an example of this.
What is synergism?
500
Can increase all other HIPPO effects.
What is population?
500
Finland's example of inbreeding depression. (Page 56)
What are Glanville fritillary butterflies (Melitaea cinxia)?
500
To inform the audience why the natural economy is falling.
What is the purpose?
500
He led a team to the mountain forest of Monteverde where they could only find 5 individuals of the golden toad of Costa Rica. (Page 54)