Types of Environmental Issues
Methods of logging
Fishing Methods
Value of Biodiversity
Causes of Extinction
100
Resources that can be replaced in a short amount of time consisting of sunlight, wind, freshwater, and trees.
What are renewable resources?
100
The process of cutting down all trees in a forest at once
What is clear cutting forest?
100
The government can enforce these to ban certain kinds of fish to be banned
What are laws?
100
A variety of trees provide humans with this important economic value
What is medicine?
100
The removal of a species of the world due to external factors is called this
What is extinction?
200
The contamination of earth's land and water supply is called this
What is pollution?
200
Cutting some trees down in a forest and leaving a mix of trees and species behind are called
What is selective cutting?
200
We can use this method in order to let young fish escape into the ocean
What is using a net with a larger mesh size?
200
A species that influences the survival of many other species in an ecosystem such as the sea otter
What is keystone species?
200
The illegal killing or removal of an animal to make jewelry, clothing, teeth, or horns is called this
What is poaching?
300
We experience a shortage of food because this is growing
What is population growth?
300
This method of logging causes more water pollution and is cheaper
What is clear cutting?
300
Raising fish in a zoo or isolated pond for food is called this
What is aquaculture?
300
The larger this is, the larger variety and number of animals there will be
What is area?
300
The building of roads in a forest creates this kind of harm
What is animal habitat destruction?
400
Resources that are not replaced in a useful time frame like coal, oil, and gas are known as these
What are nonrenewable resources?
400
This method of logging is more expensive and dangerous due to needing more fuel and time to cut around trees
What is selective cutting?
400
If we fish the same kind of fish for food, then to protect their population we should do this
What is fish for new species not endangered?
400
Areas such as the tropical rainforest that have a constant temperature and rainfall amount each year is called this
What is climate?
400
Animals that will threaten other species are called this
What are exotic species?
500
More people means more fertilizers which can cause this problem during a bad rainstorm
What is pollution?
500
Cutting down trees is only sustainable if we do this
What is plant more trees?
500
To protect the fish population we must let fish do this
What is reproduce more?
500
The role coral reefs place in providing food and shelter for fish is called the coral's this
What is niche?
500
Burning fires in the forest where ash enters the river creates this condition for animals to go extinct
What is pollution?
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