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Biodiversity
Changes in Biodiversity
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Photosynthetic? | Organisms that can use carbon dioxide and energy from sunlight to produce oxygen. |
| What does GFP stand for? | Green fluorescent protein |
| What is extinct? | A species that has completely died out. |
| How do oceans play a critical role in regulating Earth's climates and weathers? | They absorb and release heat energy |
| What are 2 ways humans depend on Earth's ocean | Goods and products are transported on the ocean and gold, silver, metal ores and oil can be mined from the ocean floor. |
| What are estuaries? | They are coastal water bodies that receive river flow and open into the ocean |
| What has modified Earth's ocean systems in many ways with various consequences? | Human activities |
| What is going on with water pollution? | Water pollution is when waste is being dumped into into rivers and emptied out into the ocean or when runoffs from lawns get into the ocean. |
| What is overharvesting | Harvesting a resource at an unsustainable level |
| What are human-made underwater structures that promote marine life by providing surfaces for marine plants and animals to attach onto the floor. | Artificial Reefs |
| Why are invasive species bad? | They disrupt the biodiversity and food webs by competing with or harming species native to that ecosystem. |
| What is global warming? | A trend of climate change observed by scientists that shows average temperatures on earth to be gradually increasing. |
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