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Final Jeopardy Question
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What is saved from endangered species for scientific research?
What is Genetic Material.
100
What is the belief that covers the love each person should have for all life?
What is Tawhid.
100
What percent of mammals are at risk of being extinct?
What is 20%.
100
What is Natural Selection?
What is when a certain environment favors a particular characteristic or trait over another.
100
Should all non-human species be conserved and sustained and why?
Yes, because each species plays and intricate role in the environment. Also, it revolves around God's creation having the balance of equal justice related to tawhid, mizan, and adl.
200
What is the act that defines and protects endangered/threatened species?
What is the US Endangered Species Act of 1973
200
What is the one human destruction, mentioned earlier, that causes an unbalanced(mizan) environment.
What is mountain top removal.
200
As of 2012 how many different species are on the endangered list?
What is 196.
200
How does Natural Selection relate to endangered species?
When a species becomes endangered, this means that that species' particular set of characteristics or traits was not the most favorable for them to survive in that certain environment.
300
Which century did science become applied to conservation of endangered species?
What is the 20th century.
300
What two terms would Abdul-Matin say was creating an unbalance (mizan) on our planet?
What is lack of Amana in God and forgetting the importance of Tawhid.
300
What percent of plants are becoming extinct?
What is 3%.
300
What is one reason that we should not fight to protect endangered species?
What is: No direct economic benefit, Difficult & inconvenient, Humans should be given priority over other species, Only small effect on environment as a whole
400
What is the term for environmental changes that affect the existence of species?
What is environmental risk
400
What was the Act made in defense for species near extinction that was established in 1973 called?
What was the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
400
What is the percent of birds that are endangered of becoming extinct?
What is 12%.
400
What justification(s) would Abdul-Matin use to get others to care about this cause?
What is Spiritual, Cultural, or Moral.
500
What is the justification that states biological diversity enhances the quality of our lives?
What is aesthetic justification.
500
What would Abdul-Matin say about about increased population due to animals?
What is be resourceful, using only want you need because the less we use the better the balance(mizan) between everything that is.
500
As of 2013 what is the number of reptiles that are on the endangered list?
What is 313.
500
What are the two tangible justifications?
What is Utilitarian and Ecological.