Maintaining Biodiversity Flashcards
1
Q
What does maintaining biodiversity mean
A
Stopping animals and plants from going extinct
2
Q
What does extinct mean
A
When all organisms are dead
3
Q
What can humans do to reduce the negative affects we have on the world
A
Using breeding programs for endangered species
Farmers having field margins
Farmers planting hedge rows
Govement acting on deforestation like establishing national parks
Reducing co2 emissions and deforestation
Protection and regeneration of rare habitats
Recycling
4
Q
What are field margins
A
Farmers leave a strip of a land around the fields where wild plants and animals can live
5
Q
Farmers grow large fields containing one type of crop meaning…
A
We find very few species of plants and animals in fields
