Human Impact 1
Human Impact 2
Impact on Biodiversity
Vocabulary
100
Humans need space for homes, businesses, factories, farms, schools, etc. which leads to this impact on the environmnet.
What is deforestation?
100
Smaller parcels of land that support fewer species and can reduce genetic diversity within populations is known as this kind of environmental impact.
What is habitat fragmentation?
100
Deforestation has this impact on biodiversity.
What is decrease?
100
Something caused by humans and their activities.
What is Anthropogenic?
200
It is best to not allow oil spills to happen because the cleanup takes time, is not always effective, and some parts of ecosystems may never recover. (True or False)
What is true?
200
Chlorofluorocarbons released by refrigerants cause this layer in the atmosphere to thin.
What is ozone layer?
200
Building corridors to connect fragmented habitats should have this impact on biodiversity.
What is increase?
200
The variety of life, mostly defined by variety of species within an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
300
Excess carbon dioxide from use of fossil fuels builds up in the atmosphere, contributing to this change in temperatures on Earth.
What is global warming?
300
Urbanization and construction causes an immediate decrease in access to this abiotic factor.
What is space/habitat/shelter?
300
Removing an invasive species from an ecosystem should have this impact on biodiversity.
What is increase in biodiveristy?
300
Excess amounts of nitrogen and phosphorous in a waterway leading to increased algal growth.
What is eutrophication?
400
When excess nutrients runoff into waterways, they cause algae to bloom. The excessive growth of algae then causes this problem for aquatic life.
What is blocks the sunlight/food chain falls apart?
400
This inference about ozone layer can be made based on the graph below.
What is the ozone layer recovering/thickening because use of ozone depleting substances have decreased?
400
An increase in carbon emissions from fossil fuels has been linked with an increase in average global temperatures and has had this impact on coral reef biodiversity.
What is decrease?
400
A species that originated and developed in its surrounding habitat and has adapted to living in that particular environment.
What is native species?
500
It is recommended to eat less red meat, which comes from cattle, and buying more locally grown vegetables because this will reduce CO2 emissions. This is the reason we want CO2 emissions to be lower.
What is to reduce the greenhouse effect/climate change?
500
This inference can be made based on the graph below.
What is increased carbon emissions led to an increase in global average temperatures?
500
This is why invasive species cause a decrease in biodiversity.
What are lack of predators and outcompete native species?
500
An increase in toxic substances, such as pesticides, in organisms as trophic levels increase in a food chain or food web.
What is biological magnification?