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Biodiversity
Changes in Biodiversity
Question | Answer |
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What is Photosynthetic mean? | Photosynthetic describes organisms that can use carbon dioxide and energy from sunlight to produce oxygen. |
What does GFP stand for? | Green Fluorescent Protein. |
What does Extinct mean? | Describes a species that has completely died out. |
How do oceans play a critical role in regulating Earth's climates and weathers? | Because they absorb and release heat energy. |
2 ways we depend on Earth's oceans. | Most goods are transported between countries in the ocean shipping routes and there are useful resources in the ocean, like minerals. |
What are estuaries? | They are coastal water bodies that receive river flow and open into the ocean. |
Explain what is going on with water pollution. | People are putting harmful substances and chemicals to natural water. |
What is over-harvesting? | Harvesting a resource at an unsustainable level. |
What is Global Warming? | A trend of climate observed by scientists that shows average temperatures on Earth to be gradually increased. |