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Biodiversity
Food & Medicine
Threats
HIPPO
Ecological Benefits, Cultural & Aesthetic
100
What is Biodiversity
What is the variety of living things
100
What are the major food/ nutrient source for the world
What is crops wheat, rice, corn & soy > 70% of world's calorie intake
100
What is Extinction
What is the elimination of species
100
What is Hippo
What is Habitat Loss, Invasive & Exotic Species, Pollution, Population Growth, Overharvesting
100
Biodiversity = Ecosystem or Species Stability
What is Ability of ecosystem/species to withstand stress or loss of species/individuals
200
Ecological Diversity
What is (Habitat or Ecosystem) - variety and degree of intricacy and interconnectedness of biotic and abiotic components within a given area (types of habitats, ecological niches, etc.)
200
Major food source
What is Estimated 80,000 edible wild plant species + thousands of animal species & only a fraction cultivated or domesticated
200
Natural process
What is a species lost of energy decade
200
What is Fragmentation and example of habitat loss
What is the division and reduction of habitat into small, isolated patches Clearing forest for resources/development and Conversion of grasslands and agriculture
200
Wildlife recreation adds
What is greater than 100 billion to U.S. economy annually
300
Species Diversity
What is number of different types of organism within an ecosystem
300
Meat and Dairy
What is are protein for the wealthy: Developed Cos. = 20% World Population, but consume 80% of the meat & dairy produced
300
Currently, estimated
What is we are losing thousands to tens of thousands annually
300
1. Successful exotic and invasive tend to be 2. Many ecologists consider exotic and invasive species
What is generalist, opportunistic species, such as rodents, weeds, insects, etc. the most pressing hazard for biological communities in the coming century.
300
Wetlands (plants, soil microbes)
What is purify water and contaminants
400
Genetic Diversity
What is variety of different versions of the same gene (alleles) within all the individuals of a population
400
Less than 15 types seed & grains
What is 3 root crops, just over 20 fruits & vegetables, less than 10 mammals, 3 domestic birds & less than 10 fish/marine life comprise human diet
400
Extinction is a Process caused and accelerated by
What is HUMAN IMPACTS on ecosystems
400
Examples of Overharvesting
What is Animal products including horns, skulls, and genitalia sold on black market as food, clothing, aphrodisiacs, etc
400
Examples of pollution
What is DDT, Lead Shot Sedimentation, Terrestrial Runoff + CO2
500
General Rule
What is Ecological & Species Diversity decline as you go from the equator to the poles
500
Drug & Medicine
What is What is are beneficial to our health, through plants such as fungi help with health issues
500
Who term the word HIPPO
What is E.O. Wilson
500
American Passenger Pigeon
What is the world’s most abundant bird in the 1870’s. Over hunting + Habitat Fragmentation & loss led to its extinction in 1914
500
What is Sloss
What is the debate of if its better to have single large or several small preserves