Vocabulary
The separation of an ecosystem into small pieces of land
What is Habitat Fragmentation?
How renewable and nonrenewable is is classified
What is context?
What value is the example "natural processes provide drinking water" related to?
What is Indirect Economic Value?
Introducing other organisms to an ecosystem can help control what?
What are invasive species?
Give one way we as humans can help protect biodiversity.
What is corridors, national parks, conservations reserves, etc. (Flexible question)
The gradual process of species becoming extinct is called...
What is Background Extinction
Cutting down a few trees in a forest?
What is renewable?
What value is the example "Most of the world’s food crops come from just a few species" related to?
Direct Economic Value.
Pollution changes the composition of ___, ___, and ___?
air, soil, and water
Only about 1/10 remains of what way to preserve Biodiversity?
Biodiversity Hotspots.
The variety of genes or inheritable characteristics that are present in a population comprises its genetic diversity.
What is Genetic Diversity?
Obtaining all of the oil in Oklahoma and burning it for electricty
What is nonrenewable?
Changes to the environment that are induced by human activity.
What are Anthroprogenics?
What threatens Biodiversity by removing calcium, potassium, and other nutrients from the soil?
What is acid precipitation?
An increase in human population growth increases the need for what?
What is natural resources to supply the basic needs of the population.
The use of living organisms—such as prokaryotes, fungi, or plants—to detoxify a polluted area
What is bioremediation?
Using one plastic water bottle
What is renewable?
What value is the example "Green plants provide oxygen and remove carbon dioxide" related to?
What is Indirect Economic Value?
Occurs when fertilizers, animal waste, sewage, or other substances that are rich in nitrogen and phosphorus flow into waterways, causing extensive algae growth.
What is Eutrophication?
Give an area listed in our notes that is a biodiversity hotspot.
What is Madagascar, Atlantic Forest, California Floristic Province, Rainforest.
The increasing concentration of toxic substances in organisms as trophic levels increase in a food chain or web
What is Biological Magnification
Everybody on Earth using a plastic water bottle every day of their lives
What is nonrenewable?
What value is the example "Wild species serve as reservoirs of desirable genetic traits that might be needed to improve commercial crop species" related to?
Direct Economic Value.
Scientists predict that climate change will threaten approximately 25 percent of all land species by what time?e
What is 2050?
What is the name of the international treaty that outlawed the trade of endangered species and animal parts like elephant tusks and rhinoceros horns. (MUST GIVE FULL NAME!!!)
CITES! (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)