BiodiversityCrisisLEC38

Question 1

how many glaciers are still here today?

Answer 1

26

Question 2

how many inches the sea level has already risen in the past century

Answer 2

8 inches

*Maldives have meeting underwater

Question 3

keys to minimizing climate changes

Answer 3

–Reduced use of fossil fuels
–Increased energy efficiency
–Increased reliance on renewable energy

Question 4

how many square miles of Southern Louisiana’s wetlands are we losing each year?

Answer 4

30 square miles per year

*currently losing 2 football fields of land per hour

Question 5

Introduced species

Answer 5

species moved by humans disrupting communities

Question 6

Conservation biologists

Answer 6

seek to counteract new mass extinction

Question 7

Overexploitation

ex. reductions in many game fish, like redfish

Answer 7

human harvesting too fast for a species to recover

Question 8

keystone species

Answer 8

major species that greatly contribute to its communities

Question 9

Habitat corridors

Answer 9

narrow strips of habitat connecting isolated patches

Question 10

Restoration ecology

Answer 10

uses ecological principles to restore degraded ecosystems

Question 11

Biological augmentation

Answer 11

uses organisms to improve a degraded ecosystem

Question 12

Ecosystem services

Answer 12

the ways that natural ecosystems help sustain humans

Question 13

environment’s carrying capacity

Answer 13

the maximum population size the environment can support