The Human Population Explosion

Question 1

What is Biodiversity?

Answer 1

The Measure of the Variety of All the Different Species of Organisms on Earth, or Within a Particular Ecosystem.

Question 2

How has the Human Population had an Effect on our Environment?

Answer 2

• More and More Land is Used for Building Houses, Shops, Industrial Sites and Roads on, this Destroys the Habitats of Other Living Organisms and Reduces Biodiversity.
• We Use Billions of Acres of Land Around the World for Farming. Wherever People Farm, the Natural Animal and Plant Populations are Destroyed.
• We Dig Vast Areas of Land for Quarries to Obtain Rocks and Metal Ores, Reducing the Land Available for Other Organisms.
• The Waste Produced by Humans Pollutes the Environment and Processing it Takes Up Land, Affecting Biodiversity.

Question 3

High Biodiversity Helps Ensure the Stability of Ecosystems by Reducing the Dependence of One Species on Another for Food, __________, and the Maintenance of the ___________ Environment.

Answer 3

Shelter…Physical…

Question 4

Rapid Growth in the Human Population and an ____________ in the Standard of Living Means that Increasingly More Resources are Used and More Waste is _____________.

Answer 4

Increase…Produced…