Threats to Biodiversity

Identify the human action that could potentially lead to habitat fragmentation.

• recycling, reusing, and reducing waste to reduce pollution

• animals hunting as a sport

• cutting down some trees to build a road through a habitat

• accidentally introducing a nonnative species to the habitat

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Chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) enter ecosystems through__________

• industrial runoff

• producer

• genetic

Select the effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. (2 answers)

• increase in edge habitats

• chances of finding a mate increase

• carrying capacity increases

• carrying capacity decreases

• increase in interior habitats

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Habitat fragmentation can negatively impact______ opportunities for species to find mates.  diversity by reducing

• Extinction

• genetic

• Background

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Which acronym represents the threats to biodiversity?

• HIPPA

• HIPPO

• HIPCA

• HAPPY

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How do invasive species threaten the survival of native organisms?

• They outcompete native organisms for resources

• They upset the hierarchy of diebacks within an ecosystem

• They enhance the genetic diversity within an ecosystem and are therefore quite beneficial to native organisms

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The causes of species extinction are summarized in the acronym HIPPO. What does the 'O' stand for?

• Ocean acidification

• Old growth forest destruction

• Overharvesting

• Organic agriculture

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What does the H in HIPPO stand for?

• habitat loss

• overharvesting

• habitat restoration

• health decline

Nonnative sea lampreys invading the Great lakes and decreasing fish populations is an example of what part of HIPPO?

• invasive species - the I in HIPPO

• overharvesting - the O in HIPPO

• none of these

• pollution - one of the Ps in HIPPO

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Deforestation is an example of which part of HIPPO?

• habitat loss - the H in HIPPO

• pollution - one of the Ps in HIPPO

• invasive species - the I in HIPPO

• none of these

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