Biodiversity
Tigers living in warm climates have thinner coats of fur than tigers living in cool climates. This is a result of what type of diversity?
Genetic
In the United States, what is the major law that protects biodiversity?
Endangered Species Act
What is the correct hierarchy of taxonomic groups, from largest to smallest?
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, family, genus, species, subspecies
What global phenomenon has caused some organisms to move toward the poles or to higher altitudes?
Warming Temperatures or Climate Change
Out of the five presidents to have worn a beard, this president is purported to have had the longest?
Rutherford B. Hayes
The easiest component of biodiversity to measure is what type of diversity?
Species
Relieving a nation from repaying some of the money it owes other nations in exchange for protecting its biodiversity is called what?
Debt-for-Nature Swap
The disappearance of a particular population from a given area, but not of the entire species globally, is called what?
Extirpation
What scientists are responsible for classifying and naming species?
Taxonomists
Which president worked to save football from being banned in the United States?
Theodore Roosevelt
High levels of biodiversity tend to do what to the stability of an ecosystem?
Increase it.
Captive Breeding and Cloning are part of what type of approach to biodiversity?
Single-species
A species that is at serious risk of extinction is called what?
Endangered
There is a plan to establish an 8000-kilometer-long strip of land across eight southeast Asian countries to rejoin fragments of tiger habitat. This is an example of what?
Wildlife Corridor
Famed inventor Alexander Graham Bell tried to save the life of this president after he was shot by an assassin?
James A. Garfield
Which level of biodiversity has the highest level of diversity?
Ecosystem Diversity
To manage, protect, and reintroduce threatened and endangered species are the goals of what?
A Species Survival Plan
By far, the biggest cause of biodiversity loss today is what?
Habitat change and fragmentation.
The natural pattern in which species diversity generally increases toward the equator is called what?
Latitudinal Gradient
Which president served in Congress after his time in office and suffered a fatal stroke on the floor of the House Chamber?
John Quincy Adams
Which type of organism dwarfs all others in terms of species diversity?
Insects
If current trends continue, the modern geologic era, known as the Quaternary period, may see the extinction of roughly how many species?
More than half
The Sikhote-Alin Mountains, and the Siberian tigers living on them, are separated from other mountain regions in which the tigers could live. The mountains are an example of?
Habitat Fragmentation
Mapping biodiversity hotspots is an example of a method for managing what?
whole ecosystems and habitats
Who was the only man to be elected twice as U.S. Vice President and twice as President of the United States?
Richard Nixon