Biodiversity
The number of different species an ecosystem contains combined with the relative abundance of individuals within each of those species.
What is species diversity?
Process when a natural habitat is destroyed and can no longer support the species that originally lived in it. Has resulted in 30% of species in South America listed as endangered.
What is Habitat Loss?
Increase in number of animals carrying pathogens. Some animals that are more adaptable to diseases and habitat fragmentation would be able to win over species that cannot handle the diseases.
What is disease outbreak and transmission?
Effort to promote environmental reform with the desire to make improvements to the wellness of the world by focusing on issues such as poaching, pollution, and habitat destruction.
What is political activism?
If you clean out your vacuum cleaner, then you're making your vacuum cleaner.
So does that make you a vacuum cleaner?
When some individuals have genetically based traits that enhance their ability to survive and produce offspring.
What is natural selection ?
The contamination of the water, soil, and air quality due to man-made waste. E-waste makes up 70% of the toxic materials in a landfill in Ghana.
What is Pollution?
Loss of species in several ecosystems as a result of habitat loss or human-caused environmental changes which can reduce nature's ability to provide important resources.
What are modern extinctions?
The process of converting waste materials into new, reusable materials or objects.
What is recycling?
Any inheritable trait that allows an organism to survive through natural selection and to reproduce more than others under extreme conditions.
What is adaption?
A change in global/ regional climate patterns as a result of increased levels of Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels and other natural/ anthropogenic causes.
What is climate change?
Unseasonable and extreme weather and weather that does not follow the historical averages that can result in drought, destruction, and displacement.
What is unpredictable weather?
The effort to reduce the consumption of energy by using less of an energy service which lowers you carbon footprint.
What is energy conservation?
They have a large effect on the other organisms in an ecosystem especially if they suddenly go extinct.
What is a keystone species?
Harvesting species from the wild at rates that are too fast for the natural population to recover. Resulted in 25,000 elephants being killed each year in Africa alone.
What is Overexploitation?
If an ecosytem that many people depended on collapses, then the population of those people will go down with the ecosystem since they will lose all their resources.
What is loss of livelihood?
Organizations that focus on the protection of the environment and global biodiversity.
What are the EPA, Department of the Environment and Energy, and the E.O. Wilson Biodiersity Foundation?
The variety of the species, they genes they have, the ecosystems they live in, and the ecosystem processes such as energy flow and nutrient cycling.
What is biodiversity?
A species that is non-native to an ecosystem and their introduction is likely to cause economic/ environmental harm to human health and the health of other native species.
What is an Invasive Species?
The majority of plants and animals go extinct so they will no longer be able to provide resources such as medicine, food, clean water, etc. The plants and animals that do survive will likely adapt into something we wouldn't be able to control.
What will happen if the problem continues?
The use of city buses, trolleybuses, trams, trains, airports, or ferries.
What is public transportation?
The extinction of species worldwide and also in local habitats which decrease the ability to remain sustainable.
What is the loss of biodiversity?