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Environmental Issues
Forests and Fisheries
Biodiversity
Search for New Medicines
100
What are the three types of environmental issues?
What is resource use, population growth, and pollution
100
What are the two methods of logging?
What is clear-cutting and selective cutting
100
What is biodiversity?
What is number of different species in an area
100
What is taxol?
What is crystals that are made from a chemical and protects the Pacific yew tree
200
What are the three viewpoints to make environmental decisions
What is developmental, preservation, conservation viewpoints
200
Why are forests considered renewable resources?
What is new trees can be planted to replace trees that are cut down
200
Which factors affect biodiversity in an ecosystem?
What is area, climate, and diversity of niches
200
Where are the Pacific yew trees found?
What is temperate rain forests
300
What is environmental science?
What is the study of the natural process that occur in the environment and how humans can affect them
300
How do you mange fisheries for a sustainable yield income?
What is making fishing limits, changing fishing methods, developing aquaculture techniques, and finding new resources
300
What are the four factors that cause extinction?
What is habitat destruction, poaching, pollution, introduction to exotic species
300
How does taxol affect cancer cells?
What is it encloses each cancer cell in a cage that keeps the cell from dividing
400
What is one way to balance different viewpoints on an environmental issues?
What is weigh the costs and benefits of a proposal
400
Which logging method cuts all the trees down?
What is clear-cutting
400
Which are the most diverse ecosystem on Earth?
What is tropical rain forests and coral reefs
400
What is one reason to protect biodiversity?
What is possible discovery of new medicine
500
What is the conservation viewpoint?
What is belief that people should use resources from the environment as long as they do not destroy those resources
500
Which logging method costs more money?
What is selective cutting
500
What are three ways in which biodiversity is important?
What is beauty and recreation, economic reasons, the health of ecosystem, and genetic diversity
500
What adaptations of rain forests plants make them a likely source of medicines?
What is the plants produce chemicals that protect them against predators, parasites, and disease