This hotspot in Brazil is home to 20,000 plant species and a very high percentage of endemic plant species.
What is the Atlantic Forest?
100
This man proposed the theory of evolution and wrote 'The Origin of Species' in 1859.
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
This occurred on/in Mount Saint Helens in Washington State in 1980.
What is an example of a volcanic eruption?
100
This is a fertilizer high in phosphate which is seabird droppings.
What is Guano?
100
The Rio+20 UN conference on sustainable development happened this year.
What is 2012?
200
This hotspot in California is most of the most important in the USA.
What is the California Floristic Province?
200
This is where those more adapted to their environment have an advantage and flourish and reproduce but those less adapted do not survive long enough to reproduce.
What is survival of the fittest?
200
This is a process whereby a large area is divided up into a patchwork of fragments, separated from each other by roads, towns, factories, fences, power-lines, pipelines or fields.
What is fragmentation of habitat?
200
These critters help aerate the soil.
What are worms?
200
CITES
What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna?
300
This hotspot is off the coast of Africa and lemurs (ahhh, cute) live here.
What is Madagascar?
300
These Geologic connections allow species to invade new areas.
What are land bridges?
300
This is something caused by human activities that can degrade or destroy habitats and make them unsuitable to support the range of species that a pristine ecosystem can support.
What is Pollution?
300
This is a form of tourism focused on sustainability and biodiversity, often for spiritual fulfillment.
What is Ecotourism?
300
Programs to reintroduce populations or establish new ones.
What is captive breeding?
400
This hotspot is located in a region of SE Asia where an intense war occurred in the 60s and 70s.
What is Indo-Burma?
400
Pangaea is the super-continent that existed in what theory?
What is the theory of continental drift?
400
This has escalated as human populations have expanded and technology has allowed us to get better and better at catching, hunting and harvesting.
What is over-exploitation?
400
This environmental organisation was famous for the ship, the 'Rainbow Warrior'.
What is Greenpeace?
400
These species are charismatic, instantly recognized, popular and can capture our imagination.
What is a flagship species?
500
This hotspot is famous for the giant flower, Raffleasia.
What is Sundaland?
500
This is what scientists call the natural extinction rate of all species.
What is the background extinction rate?
500
This is something that can drastically upset a natural ecosystem by humans through colonization of different countries, bringing their own crops or livestock.
What is the Introduction of non-native or alien species?
500
These types of conservation organisations mobilize public protest to put pressure on governments.
What is an NGO?
500
This program, started in 1970, created a world network of international reserves.
What is UNESCO's 'Man and Biosphere Program' (MAB)?