Vocab
The variety of life on Earth
What is biodiversity?
The variety of species in an area.
These non-native species threaten biodiversity by driving out native species.
What are invasive species?
This US-based law passed in 1973 protects biodiversity through 3 provisions.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
This invasive bug originating from China and now found in Philadelphia needs to be stomped out as soon as it is seen!
What is the spotted lanternfly?
The illegal act of hunting and killing a member of a protected species for money.
What is poaching?
The variety of habitats in an area.
What is ecosystem diversity?
This is the largest threat to biodiversity.
What is habitat change and/or loss?
This term is used when a species has very few left in the wild and is in danger of extinction.
What is endangered?
This biome contains half of the world's known land species.
What is the tropical rainforest?
The separation of suitable habitat surrounded by unsuitable habitat.
What is habitat fragmentation?
The variety of DNA amongst individuals within a species.
What is genetic diversity?
This threat has a global, not just local, effect on biodiversity loss.
What is climate change? (also accepted: global warming)
These areas are considered places where the largest number of endangered species can be protected with the least amount of effort.
What are biodiversity hotspots?
This is the state Ms. Havu grew up in.
What is Maine?
These bridges can help connect habitat fragments and allow species to interbreed, increasing genetic diversity.
What are wildlife corridors?
Biodiversity increases towards this imaginary line in the center of the Earth.
What is the equator?
This cause of biodiversity loss poisons both wildlife and humans.
What is pollution?
This single species approach to protecting biodiversity involves copying the DNA of an individual, like Dolly the Sheep.
What is cloning?
Philadelphia would be considered to be in this biome, given the existence of trees that lose their leaves in the fall and winter.
What is a temperate deciduous forest?
The classification of life, separated into Kingdom, Phylum, Genus, Species, etc.
What is taxonomy?
Big cats, such as the tiger (Panthera tigris), jaguar (Panthera onca), and lion (Panthera leo) are all members of this taxonomic level.
What is genus?
The loss of a species from one area, not globally, is known as this.
What is extirpation?
This convention, created in 1975, deals primarily with banning international trade in body parts of endangered species.
What is CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species)?
This is how many total pets Ms. Havu owns.
What is 4?