Biodiversity and Conservation

Question 1

Total biodiversity hotspots in the world

Answer 1

34

Question 2

Biodiversity hotspots in India

Answer 2

Western Ghats– Sri Lanka
Indo–Burma
Himalaya

Question 3

Biodiversity hotspots cover less than ___ % of the Earth’s land area. They can reduce mass extinctions by ___%

Answer 3

2

30

Question 4

No. of
biosphere reserves
national parks
wildlife sanctuaries

Answer 4

14
90
448

Question 5

Places in India where sacred groves are found

Answer 5

Khasi and Jaintia hills (Meghalaya)
Aravalli hills (Rajasthan)
Sarguja, Chanda and Bastar (Madhya Pradesh)
Western Ghats (Karnataka and Maharashtra)

Question 6

First World Summit was held in ______ in _______

Follow up World Summit was held in ________ in _______

Answer 6

Rio de Janeiro, 1992

Johannesburg, 2002

Question 7

In the follow up World Summit, ____ countries pledged their commitment to achieve significant reduction in current rate of biodiversity by _____

Answer 7

190

2010

Question 8

More than ____% of the drugs currently sold in the market worldwide are derived from plants and _______ species of plants contribute to the traditional medicine used by native peoples around the world.

Answer 8

25%

25000

Question 9

Amazon produces ____% of the total oxygen

Answer 9

20

Question 10

The colonization of the Pacific Islands have led to the extinction of more than _____ species of native birds

Answer 10

2000

Question 11

In the last 500 years, ______ species of vertebrates, ______ species of invertebrates and _____ species of plants have gone extinct

Answer 11

338
359
87

Question 12

In the last twenty years, ____ species have gone extinct

Answer 12

27

Question 13

more than ________ species world-wide are facing the threat of extinction

Answer 13

15,500

Question 14

Presently, ___ per cent of all bird species, ___ per cent of all mammal species,____ per cent of all amphibian species and ____ per cent of all gymnosperm species in the world
face the threat of extinction.

Answer 14

12
23
32
31

Question 15

____________ is the most important

cause driving animals and plants to extinction.

Answer 15

Habitat loss and fragmentation

Question 16

Once covering more than ___ %, rainforests now cover only __%

Answer 16

14

6

Question 17

Amazon is being cut down to cultivate

Answer 17

Soya beans

Question 18

Animals went extinct due to over exploitation

Answer 18

Stellers sea cow

Passenger pigeon

Question 19

Nile perch introduced to lake _______ led to the extinction of more than _____ species of _______ fish

Answer 19

Victoria
200
Cichlid

Question 20

Catfish posing threat to indian catfishes

Answer 20

Clarias gariepinus

Question 21

Whose experiments proved the relation between biodiversity and stability

Answer 21

Tilman

Question 22

The most well known pattern in diversity is

Answer 22

Latitudinal gradient

Question 23

Colombia has _____ bird species
India has _____ species
Amazon has ____ species

Answer 23

1400
1200
1300

Question 24

Latitude of NY? How many bird species?

Answer 24

41°N

105

Question 25

Greenland latitude? Now many bird species?

Answer 25

71°N, 56

Question 26

Amazon has _____ species of mammals and ______ of amphibians

Answer 26

427, 427

Question 27

Amazon has ______ species of reptiles, _____ of fishes

Answer 27

378, 3000

Question 28

Amazon has ______ species of plants and ________ of invertebrates

India has _____ species of plants

Answer 28

40,000
1,25,000

45000

Question 29

Where did Alexander von Humboldt do his species area relationship studies?

Answer 29

South American jungles

Question 30

Value of Z generally lies between

Answer 30

0.1 to 0.2

Question 31

Z value for continents

Answer 31

0.6-1.2

Question 32

Frugivorous birds Z value

Answer 32

1.15

Question 33

Species discovered so far

Estimate by Robert May?

Answer 33

1.5m

7m

Question 34

___% of recorded species are plants

Answer 34

22

Question 35

Check graphs

Answer 35

Ok

Question 36

India has ___ % of the world’s land area but ___% of global species diversity

How many mega diversity countries in the world

Answer 36

2. 4
3. 1

12

Question 37

How many beetle species

Answer 37

3lakh

Question 38

Who termed the word biodiversity

Answer 38

Edward Wilson

Question 39

India has ______ strains of rice and ______ strains of mango

Answer 39

50,000

1000

Question 40

species of ants

Answer 40

2(too tiny)0000

same for or(kids)

Question 41

species of beetles

Answer 41

3,00,000

Question 42

species of fishes

Answer 42

twenty ate thousand

Question 43

fungi more than all vertebrates except

Answer 43

birds

Question 44

plants in india

Answer 44

45000/100000

animals twice/thrice

Question 45

Ecuador has ___ times as many species of vascular plants as midwest

Answer 45

10

Question 46

Insects waiting to be discovered in amazon

Answer 46

2mil

Question 47

Humboldt graphed for __ taxa

Answer 47

angiosperms
birds
bats
fishies

Question 48

nearly __ of the species could go extinct in the next 100 years

Answer 48

half

Question 49

Convention on Biological Diversity?

Answer 49

Rio 1992

Question 50

World Summit on Sustainable Development

Answer 50

Johannesburg, 2002