Impacts on Plants and Animals

Question 1

What is the percentage of how many species inhabiting Earth will go extinct?

Answer 1

75%

Question 2

How many species has gone extinct in the past 500 years?

Answer 2

865

Question 3

How many more species are threatened by extinction?

Answer 3

20,000

Question 4

What was the 5th mass extinction?

Answer 4

The Dinos

Question 5

What are invasive species?

Answer 5

Species that are not native to the land they are placed upon and are growing rapidly in production to the point where other species are becoming extinct from them

Question 6

What are ways to create a pesticides resistance for plants?

Answer 6

Create poison and contamination for those pests

Question 7

How did people preserve biodiversity?

Answer 7

Through:
Legal protection
(Convention on biological diversity 1992, convention on international trade in endangered species 1973, the endangered species act 1973)

Established national parks/protected areas

NGOs
(including the world wildlife fund, the wildlife conservation union, conservation international, the nature conservancy, greenpeace)

Zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens
(which saves threatened species)