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What term describes the variety of life in a given environment?
Biodiversity
What do we call the variety of different species in a particular area?
Species Biodiversity
What is the term that best describes species at risk for becoming endangered if population declines more?
Threatened species
What term describes a species that is at risk of extinction?
Endangered species
What term describes the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals?
Poaching
What term best describes when land is broken into smaller patches due to human activities?
Habitat fragmentation
What term describes the percentage of change in a population's size?
Growth rate
What term describes the economic difference in wealth within a society?
Wealth gap
The term that describes breeding and raising animals in a controlled environment?
Captive breeding
What term refers to the total number of individuals in a society?
Population size
What is the term for when animals go extinct in a certain area rather than globally?
Extirpation
What describes the average number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime?
Total fertility rate
What terms refer to the different range of material in a population?
Genetic diversity
The program that ensures the long-term survival of endangered species
Species survival plan
hat is the term that describes the total fertility rate needed for a population to replace itself?
Replacement fertility
What estimates the average number of years a person is expected to live?
Life expectancy
What is the variety of ecosystems in a region, which includes forests, grasslands and wetlands?
Ecosystem diversity
A historical period marked by significant changes in technology and machine-based manufacturing
Industrial revolution
What is the law that protects species that are at risk of extinction?
Endangered Species Act
What is the critical static that measures the number of deaths of infants per 1,000 live births?
Infant mortality
High numbers of a variety of species found nowhere else on earth.
Biodiversity hotspot
What term describes how people are spread out across an area?
Population distribution
What field focuses on the statistical analysis of birth rates, death rates,migration and population?
Demography
What is the concept that describes the historical shift from high birth and death to low birth and death rates?
Demographic transition
The term that describes a species that is not found nowhere else in the world
Endemic