Biodiversity Understand Key Concepts

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Biodiversity

19, Genetic diversity, species

diversity, and ecological

Understand Key Concepts

17. A species that is introduced to an environment

diversity,

where it has not lived before is described as

B

a. native.

c. threatened.

24, Risins global temp,

b. nonnative.

d. predatory.

me ting ice caps, and

18. What is a habitat fragment?

rising sea levels

19. List three different kinds of biodiversity that

might be described in a given biome.

18. The process when

25, Habitat loss, species

a large habitat is

divided into a

migration, altered

I soldred fragment

breeding patterns, coral

b.teaching, and biodiversity

Meeting Ecological Challenges

decline

Understand Key Concepts

22. The burning of fossil fuels is a direct cause of each

23, long lived CFCs,

the following EXCEPT

D

a. acid rain.

c. smog.

Slow natural recovery,

b. global warming

d. the ozone hole,

and climate interaction

23. The total impact a person has on the biosphere

can be represented by his or her

B

a. contribution to climate change.

b. ecological footprint,

c. consumption of fossil fuel.

d. production of carbon dioxide.

24. Cite three examples of physical evidence for

global warming.

25. What are some of the biological effects of climate

change?

Think Critically

26. Relate Cause and Effect Why hasn't the ozone

layer repaired itself fully since the widespread ban

of CFCs in 1987?