Environmental Issues
Anything in the environment used by people is called...
What is a natural resource?
Illegal killing of animals is also called this.
What is poaching?
The Pacific Yew tree provided this medicine.
What is taxol?
A species that could become endangered.
What is threatened?
Contamination of Earth's land, water, or air.
What is pollution?
Catching fish faster than they can breed.
What is overfishing?
The mating of animals in zoos or refuges to protect biodiversity.
What is a captive breeding?
Resources such as coal and oil that are not replaced as they are used.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
Taxol is used to treat this disease.
What is cancer?
The disappearance of all members of a species.
What is an extinction?
When making environmental decisions, it's important to ask...do the ___ outweigh the ___?
What are costs and benefits?
This biome is known to have rare species that can possibly save lives.
What is a rain forest?
A structure in an organisms cell that carries its hereditary information.
What is a gene?
Two reasons that people are living longer today.
What are improvements in medicine, agriculture, or waste disposal?
An amount of a renewable resource that can be regularly harvested without reducing the future supply.
What is a sustainable yield?
Two types of value that biodiversity has. (Hint...both start with the letter e)
What are economic and ecological?
What are the Pacific Yew, Madagascar Rosy Periwinkle, Longsnout Seahorse, or Foxglove?
Breaking larger habitats into smaller, isolated pieces.
What is habitat fragmentation?