4/14 Human Impacts on Biodiversity

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10 questions
1

Draw pictures and label them to show the main factors that lead to habitat diversity.

Habitat loss
Invasive species
Population growth
Pollution
Climate change
Overexplotation (overharvesting)

1

Describe habitat fragmentation.

1

Draw examples of habitat fragmentation.

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Explain how we can mitigate the impact of the loss of biodiversity from habitat fragmentation.

1

Why are some species more impacted by habitat fragmentation than others?

1

Describe edge habitats in your own words.

How are edge habitats impacted by habitat fragmentation?

1

Explain how climate change causes habitat loss.

1

Explain how the human domestication of certain species impacts the biodiversity of that species as well as the total biodiversity on Earth (wild mammals are now less than 5% of all mammals worldwide!)

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Identify 5 possible ways humans can mitigate the impact of the loss of biodiversity.

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Pick 2 of the ways from #9 and explain how they will mitigate the loss of biodiversity.