geography - GP

is the act of preserving, guarding or protecting the environment to maintain biodiversity and natural resources through sustainable development.

• Conservation

• Sustainability

• Resource management

• Ecosystem

Sustainable development is development which provides for the needs of an increasing human population by harming the environment a little

• True

• False

Conservation programs works on

• –Reducing extinction

• –Maintaining ecosystem functions

• Protecting vulnerable environments

• To make new species

How do we achieve conservation?

• Conserve fossil fuels

• Recycling

• Breeding programmes

• Reduce deforestation

Sustainble development includes

• Environmental aspects

• Social aspects

• Political aspects

• Economic aspects

Explain why selective felling / replanting are not always the best option for conservation.

•A local small-scale ecosystem can be a

• pond,

• hedgerow

• river bank

• forest

•A global-scale ecosystem can be a tropical rainforest or deciduous woodland for example. These global ecosystems are called _______________

• habitat

• forest

• biomes.

• niche

The number of species in this community is _____

A ________ is a particular part or role an organism has within an ecosystem.