What are the specific characteristics that all populations have.
100
The three types of biodiversity.
What is genetic biodiversity, species biodiversity, and ecosystem biodiversity.
100
When animals and plants gradually disappear over time.
What is background extinction.
100
Resources that are replaced faster than they are consumed.
What are renewable resources.
100
The most diverse of all land biomes.
What is the tropical rainforest.
200
Uniform, clumped and random.
What are the types of spatial distribution.
200
A variety of colors.
What is genetic biodiversity.
200
The excessive use of a living organism.
What is overexploitation.
200
Using resources at a rate in which it can be replaced or recycled while preserving the long-term environmental health of the biosphere.
What is sustainable use.
200
This legally enforces the protection of the species that are becoming extinct or are in danger of becoming extinct.
What is The Endangered Species Act.
300
Things that can increase or decrease a population.
What are limiting factors.
300
13 different types of animals living in the same biome.
What is species biodiversity.
300
The separation of an ecosystem into smaller bits of land.
What is habitat fragmentation.
300
Places that contain one or more zones that are protected from human activity by buffer zones, areas in which sustainable use of natural resources is permitted.
What are Biosphere Reserves.
300
The primary factor in dispersion or spacing.
What is the availability of resources.
400
Any factor that does not depend on the number of members in a population. Weather events would be an example.
What are density independent factors.
400
The multiple ecosystems and biomes that make up the biosphere.
What is ecosystem biodiversity.
400
An example of this would be the edges of a forest near a road would have different temperatures, wind levels, and humidity levels.
What is edge effect.
400
Where endemic species are threatened.
What is biodiversity hot spots.
400
We are currently in the middle of one right now. The last one was 65 million years ago.
What is a mass extinction.
500
These are usually biotic and examples can be predation, disease, parasites, or competition.
What are density dependent factors.
500
Preserving species because they will provide food, clothing, energy, medicine, and shelter to human beings.
What is a direct economic value.
500
Occurs when fertilizers, animal waste, sewage, and other substances rich in nitrogen and phosphorus flow into waterways, causing extensive algae growth.
What is eutrophication.
500
The use of living organisms (prokaryotes, fungi or plants) to detoxify a polluted area.