Part 4: How the biosphere provides resources for indigenous and local people

Question 1

1. What are biosphere goods?

Answer 1

a) Physical materials from the biosphere

Question 2

2. What are examples of biosphere goods?

Answer 2

a) Timber (Wood), fish, fruit, nuts

Question 3

3. What are biosphere services?

Answer 3

a) Things done by the biosphere

Question 4

4. What are examples of biosphere services?

Answer 4

a) Forests prevent flooding
b) Trees provide oxygen
c) The biosphere regulates the hydrological cycle

Question 5

5. What are the different categories of ecosystem goods and services for people?

Answer 5

a) Provisioning services (goods)
b) Regulating services
c) Supporting Services
d) Cultural Services

Question 6

6. What are provisioning services?

Answer 6

a) products from ecosystems

Question 7

7. What are examples of provisioning services?

Answer 7

a) Food
b) Fuelwood
c) Timber
d) Genetic and Chemical Material

Question 8

8. What are regulating services?

Answer 8

a) Services that link physical systems and keep the whole planet healthy

Question 9

9. What are examples of regulating services?

Answer 9

a) Storing Carbon Dioxide in plants
b) Plants emitting oxygen
c) Trees purifying water

Question 10

10. What are supporting Services?

Answer 10

a) Keeping the ecosystem healthy so it can provide other services

Question 11

11. What are examples of regulating services?

Answer 11

a) The nutrient cycle
b) Photosynthesis
c) Food webs

Question 12

12. What are cultural services?

Answer 12

a) Benefits people get from living in healthy ecosystems

Question 13

13. What are example of cultural services?

Answer 13

a) Recreation
b) Tourism
c) Education
d) Science

Question 14

14. How are ecosystem services globally important?

Answer 14

a) Maintaining a healthy atmosphere

Question 15

15. How are biosphere services locally important?

Answer 15

a) Giving fuel to local people

b) Employment

Question 16

16. What are indigenous people?

Answer 16

a) The original people in a place

Question 17

17. Give an example of an indigenous people

Answer 17

a) The Indians living in the Amazon rainforest

Question 18

18. What ecosystem goods and services do indigenous people receive?

Answer 18

a) Wood for cooking
b) Fish and animals for food
c) Nuts and fruits
d) Trade
e) Medicines

Question 19

19. Who are the Efe people?

Answer 19

a) Indigenous people in the Congo rainforest

Question 20

20. How many Efe people are there?

Answer 20

a) 30,000

Question 21

21. What good and services do the Efe people receive from the rainforest?

Answer 21

a) Wood and leaves for huts
b) Animals and fish for food
c) Nuts and berries
d) Trade hunted animals
e) Medicine
f) Worship the rainforest

Question 22

22. What are the ways in which indigenous people exploit the biosphere locally?

Answer 22

a) Slash-and-burn farming

Question 23

23. What is slash and burn farming?

Answer 23

a) Burning small bits of the forest to grow things

Question 24

24. Why is slash and burn good for farming?

Answer 24

a) Makes the soil fertile

Question 25

25. How long can land be used in slash and burn farming?

Answer 25

a) Land is farmed for 5-6 years

Question 26

26. What happens to the soil after 5 or 6 years of slash and burn farming?

Answer 26

a) Soil becomes infertile
b) Farmers move to a new area
c) Forest regrows