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Chapter 5 Biodiversity and Conservation

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 27mins

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Class
Date
1.

When the last member of the species dies in a process is called :

a)

Biodiversity

b)

Extinction

c)

Threat

d)

Endangered

2.

What is the variety of life in an area that is determined by the different species in an area is called :

a)

Ecosystem

b)

Genetic diversity

c)

Biodiversity

d)

Population

3.

What is Genetic diversity

a)

The variety of genes or inheritable characteristics

b)

The variety of species in an environment

c)

The variety of organisms in the biosphere

d)

The variety of ecosystems in a specific region

4.

What is Ecosystem diversity ?

a)

The variety of species in an environment

b)

The variety of ecosystems that are present in the biosphere

c)

The variety of population in the same geographic location

d)

The variety of people in their cities

5.

What is species diversity ?

a)

The variety of different species and the relative abundant of each organism in a biological community

b)

The variety of ecosystem that are present in the biosphere

c)

The variety of genes that are passed on to their offspring

d)

The variety of different cultures that people have

6.

How does people depend on the biodiversity strictly ?

a)

Indirect economic value

b)

Direct economic value

c)

Biodiversity

d)

Biosphere

7.

How does people depend on the biodiversity in an evasive way ?

a)

Indirect economic value

b)

Direct economic value

c)

People working

d)

Economic value

8.

How can we use plant directly ?

a)

Sniffing them

b)

Hanging them

c)

Using them for medicine

d)

Playing with them

9.

How can we use plants indirectly ?

a)

Taking them as a source of food ( eating them )

b)

Providing us with oxygen

c)

Using them for medicine

d)

Sniffing them

10.

What are the most important pieces of information the public needs to know about this threat ?

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11.

Why biodiversity is important to the biosphere ?

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12.

Why maintaining biodiversity has a direct economic value to humans ?

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13.

Differentiate between the direct economic value and the indirect economic value .

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14.

Why is it important to maintain biodiversity for future medical needs ?

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15.

What is background extinction ?

a)

process of becoming extinct

b)

Species that are available in the environment with abundance

c)

Endangered organisms

d)

Extinct

16.

Where will most of the extinctions occur ?

a)

At the Equator

b)

At the North pole

c)

At the South pole

d)

In Space

17.

Natural resources are : all the materials and organisms found in the biosphere, including minerals fossil fuels, and plants and animals.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Overexploitation: is one of the factors that is decreasing the current rate of extinction

a)

True

b)

False

19.

By 1889 the number of bison increased up to 50 million bison

a)

True

b)

False

20.

The next question is going to be a little tough please don't use your book

for the answer of this question write in the blank "ok"

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21.

By the early 1800s the Passenger Pigeons were extinct

a)

True

b)

False

22.

The Ocelot is in danger of being extinct due to :

a)

Hunting them

b)

Loss for their habitat

23.

Overexploitation was the primary cause of species extinction.

a)

True

b)

False