Environmental Science Ch. 10 Review

Tropical rainforests have the

• lowest biodiversity.

• most extreme temperatures.

• smallest land area.

• greatest number of extinctions.

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It is estimated there are greater than 10 million _____ on Earth.

• species
• people

• habitats

• biodiversity hotspots

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Click on the two most numerous unknown species.

• bacteria

• fungi

• insects

• plants

_____ diversity refers to the variety of habitats.

• Habitat

• Species

• Genetic
• Ecosystem

_____ diversity refers to all the different genes contained within all members of a population.

• Population

• Species

• Genetic
• Ecosystem

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When a population shrinks, its variety of genes decreases as though it is passing through a bottleneck. Even if such a population is able to increase again, there will be inbreeding within a smaller _____ diversity.

• Population

• Species

• Genetic
• Ecosystem

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Which of the following is NOT an important reason to preserve biodiversity?

• so we can stop all species from ever becoming extinct again

• about one quarter of the drugs prescribed in the United Sates are derived from plants

• almost all of the antibiotics are derived from chemicals found in fungi

• hybrids can be developed by combing genetic material from other crops into existing crops and finding new plants can supplement the world’s food supply

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Which of the following foods did NOT come from North America, Central America or South America?

• wheat

• corn

• potato

• pepper

Which of the following foods did NOT come from North America, Central America or South America?

• tomato

• carrot

• sweet potato

• vanilla

Which of the following foods did NOT come from North America, Central America or South America?

• bean

• avacado

• pea

• cocoa