Conservation Biology Review

Conservation biology provides ways to preserve _____. 

• Threatened and endangered species
• Human comfort
• Captive populations

What is a habitat? 

• The place or environment where a plant or animal grows most quickly. 
• The place or environment where a plant or animal natural or normally lives and grows. 
• The place or environment where a plant or animal are most numerous. 

What is habitat restoration? 

• The process of taking action to bring a damaged habitat back to a healthy condition
• The process of taking action to beautify a damaged habitat

Climate change can lead to _______________.

• sea level rise and floods in coastal areas
• droughts
• spread of dengue fever and malaria
• all of the above

Harvesting a renewable resource to the point of no return is called?

• nonrenewable resources

• overharvesting

• sustainability

• pollution

Name two examples of pollution.

The greatest cause of species extinction is________?

• pollution

• climate change

• habitat loss

• habitat fragmentation

variety of ecosystems

• ecosystem diversity
• exotic species (also invasive species)
• chemical diversity
• chytridiomycosis

Which of the following ecological locations has the greatest species diversity?

• tundra
• deciduous forest
• tropical rainforest
• grasslands
• islands

Invasive species are introduced by humans to new geographic locations and

• are successful in colonizing a novel area.
• spread because they encounter none of their natural predators.
• All choices are correct
• can outcompete and displace native species for biotic and abiotic resources.
• are usually considered pests by ecologists.