Vocabulary
The process of a species, family, or other group of animals or plants dying off
What is Extinction?
The destruction of natural areas of land where organisms live
the different environmental conditions that occur along the boundaries of an ecosystem.
What are Edge Affects?
What is an example that we learned of an ecoogical corridor?
what are wildlife crossings, green bridges, or ecoducts?
The use of living organisms (prokaryotes, fungi, or plants) to detoxify a polluted area.
What is Bioremediation?
The separation of an ecosystem into small pieces of land.
What is Habitat Fragmentation?
The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects
What is pollution?
Green plants provide oxygen and remove carbon dioxide.
Natural processes provide drinking water.
What is Indirect Economic Value?
Using resources at a rate at which they can be:
Replaced or recycled
While preserving long-term environmental health of the biosphere
Balances human needs with ecosystem protection
What is sustainable use?
Locations with exceptional levels of endemic species.
What are Biodiversity Hotspot?
The gradual process of species becoming extinct>
What is Backround Extinction?
The a change in global or regional weather patterns.
the increasing concentration of toxic substances in organisms as trophic levels increase in a food chain or web
What is biological magnification?
What are:
Fossil Fuels
Nuclear Energy
Coal
How many protected areas (National Parks) are in the US.
63 National Parks.
The variety of ecosystems present in the biosphere
What is Ecosystem Diversity?
When humans intentionally or accidentally move a non-native organism.
What is Introduction of Invasive Species?
destroys underwater habitats for some species.
Using all of the oil/natural gas in the US
What is a Nonrenewable Resource?
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
What is CITES?
The variety of genes or inheritable characteristics that are present in a population.
What is Genetic Diversity?
The overuse of a species that have some economic value.
What is Overexpoitation?
plants and animals for food, clothing, energy, and medicine.
What is Direct Economic Value?
Give me at least 3 out of the 4 renewable resources.
What are:
Solar Energy
Hydroelectric Energy
Wind Energy
Geothermal Energy
Give me an example of a legaslative act.
What is the endangered species acts of 1973.