Biodiversity and Protecting Endangered Species

Question 1

What is biodiversity?

Answer 1

The number of different species in a particular area

Question 2

What does biodiversity lead to?

Answer 2

Stable ecosystems that can resist possible harmful situations

Question 3

What 4 things do ecosystems help to do?

Answer 3

~Regulate the atmosphere
~Regulate water supply
~Regulate nutrient cycles
~Provide fertile soil

Question 4

What does poaching and destruction of habitats lead to?

Answer 4

A decrease in biodiversity

Question 5

Why are habitats being destroyed? What are people using the land for?

Answer 5

~Building
~Quarrying
~Dumping rubbish
~Agriculture

Question 6

What are 5 methods that protect biodiversity and rare species?

Answer 6

~CITES
~SSSI
~Captive breeding programs
~National parks
~Seed banks

Question 7

What 5 things is biodiversity important for?

Answer 7

~Food
~Potential foods
~Industrial materials
~New medicines
~Human well being

Question 8

How can computer programs be used as simulations of environmental interactions and to predict trends?

Answer 8

~Modelling climate change
~Investigating the effect of pollutants on populations
~Predicting trends in populations of endangered species