Biodiversity Vocab Practice

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Disappearance of a species when its last members die.

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Extinction

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Species count in a specific area.

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Biodiversity

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Variety of inheritable characteristics in an interbreeding population.

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Genetic Diversity

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Functional unit controlling trait expression passed to future generations.

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Gene

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In a biological community, the number and abundance of different species.

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Species Diversity

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Variety of ecosystems in the biosphere.

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Ecosystem Diversity

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Gradual process of a species becoming extinct.

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Background extinction

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Large scale die-off of many organisms in a short time.

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Mass Extinction

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Material or organism in the biosphere, excluding water, soil, fuel, plants, and animals.

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Natural Resource

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Overuse of economically valuable species contributes to extinction.

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Overexploitation