Chapter 9 Nature's Medicine

Question 1

Biodiversity

Answer 1

Variety of life on Earth; it includes species, genetic, and ecological diversity.

Question 2

Species diversity

Answer 2

The variety of species, including how many are present (richness) & their abundance relative to each other (evenness).

Question 3

Genetic diversity

Answer 3

The heritable variation among individuals of a single population or within a species as a whole.

Question 4

Ecological diversity

Answer 4

The variety within an ecosystem’s structure, including many communities, habitats, niches, and tropic levels.

Question 5

Ecosystem services

Answer 5

Benefits that are important to all life, including humans, provided by functional ecosystems; includes such things as nutrient cycles, air and water purification, and ecosystem goods, such as fuel and fuel.

Question 6

Instrumental value

Answer 6

An object’s or species’ worth, based on its usefulness to humans

Question 7

Intrinsic value

Answer 7

An object’s or species worth, based on its mere existence; it has an inherent right to exist.

Question 8

Endemic

Answer 8

Describes a species that is native to a particular area and is not naturally found elsewhere

Question 9

Biodiversity hotspot

Answer 9

An area that contains a large number of endemic but threatened species

Question 10

Extirpated

Answer 10

Describes a species that is locally extinct in one or more areas but still as some individual members in other areas.

Question 11

Debt-for-nature swap

Answer 11

A wealthy nation forgives a debt of a developing nation in return for a pledge to protect natural areas in the developing nation

Question 12

Endangered species act

Answer 12

The primary law under which biodiversity is protected in the U.S.