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Biodiversity
Changes in Biodiversity
Question | Answer |
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What is the photosynthesis definition? | Describes organisms that can use carbon dioxide and energy from sunlight to produce oxygen. |
What does GFP stand for? | Green Fluorescent Protein |
What is the extinct definition? | Describes a species that has completely died out. |
How do oceans play a critical role in regulating Earths climate and weathers? | They absorb and release heat energy. And their current and temperatures create weather patterns. |
List two ways we depend on earth's oceans? | 1.Most goods and products are transported over sea 2.Oceans provide us with gold, silver, metal ores and sea oil |
What are estuaries? | Estuaries are coastal water bodies that receive river flow and open into the ocean. |
Human __________ have modified Earth'es ocean systems in many ways and with various consequences. | Activities |
What is overharvesting? | Involves harvesting a resource at an unsustainable level. |
__________ ____ are human-maae underwater structures that promote marine life by providing surfaces for marine plants and animals to attach to on the ocean floor. | Artificial reefs |
What is the global warming definition? | A trend of climate change observed by scientists that shows average temperatures on earth to be gradually increasing. |
Many member of the worlds scientific community believe that _____ activities contribute to global warming. Burning ______ fuels like gasoline and coal releases greenhouse _____, such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxides, into the atmosphere. These gases t | Human, fossil, gases, heat |
Invasive species and new organisms that are introduced to non-native ecosystems. Why could this be a bad thing. | Invasive species can spread diseases. |