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1. Types of Environmental Issues2. Making Environmental Decisions3. Forest Resources and Managing

Forests4. Fisheries and Managing Fisheries5. Biodiversity6. Endangered and Extinct Species7. Biodiversity and Medicine8. Interesting Thoughts about Chapter 3 “Living Resources”

Chapter 3

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The contamination of Earth’s air, land or water is called _______________

The practice of raising fish for food is called _______________

Give three examples of renewable resources.

Give an example of a local environmental choice.

The most diverse ecosystems in the world are ________________

What does “certified wood” mean?

If all members of a species disappear from Earth, that species is _____________

What is the most effective way to preserve biodiversity?

What is the cancer drug that was originally discovered from the Pacific Yew Tree?

Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of what type of natural resource?

The process of cutting down all the trees in an area at once is called _____________

Structures in an organism’s cell that carry its hereditary information are called _________.

An amount of renewable resource that can be harvested regularly without reducing the future supply is called _____________.

A species that could be endangered in the near future would be considered _____________.

The logging method that is less damaging to the environment is ________________.

What are four ways fisheries can be managed for a sustainable yield?

Give an example of a personal environmental choice.

What are two examples of fishing limits?

The practice of raising fish and other water-dwelling organisms is called ___________.

From what type of tree was aspirin originally discovered?

What is biodiversity?

Which group of organisms has the greatest biodiversity?

What do you call a species that influence the survival of many other species in an ecosystem?

What are the three main types of environmental issues?

Give an example of a keystone species.

What are three factors that affect biodiversity?

What is the major cause of extinction?

How does area affect biodiversity?

Species in danger of becoming extinct would be considered _____________.

Introducing an ________ _________ can threaten biodiversity because can overpopulate an ecosystem and eliminate other species already living there.

Why is population growth an environmental issue?

The mating of animals in zoos or wildlife preserves is called __________.

The bald eagle is an example of a __________ species.

What is an economic cost for drilling in Antarctica?

The illegal killing or removal of wildlife species from their habitats is called

_________.

What is the study of natural processes in the environment and how humans can affect them?

A deer crossing the road to get to the forest on the other side is an example of ________ _________.

List 4 ways that humans can threaten biodiversity.

An area with a large population of valuable ocean organisms is called ____________.

What is an ecological cost of drilling in Antarctica?

How do decision makers balance the different opinions on an environmental issue?

Planting a new tree to replace a cut-down tree is one method to provide a _________ __________.

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7. What is a renewable resource? What is a nonrenewable resource?

Renewable is either always available or is naturally replaced in a reasonable amount of time.

Nonrenewable is not replaced in a useful time frame.

8. Describe how environmental decisions are made.

You first have to weigh out the ecological and economical costs and benefits. Then, make a decision.

9. How does the idea of a sustainable yield pertain to forestry and fisheries?

Both forests and fisheries are living resources that need to be around for our future.

In a sustainable forest after trees are harvested, young trees are planted. Also selective cutting can be used to ensure the future supply.

Fisheries can set limits, change fishing methods, use aquacultures, or find new resources in order to provide a sustainable yield.

10. Describe one way that overfishing can be prevented.

Use aquacultures Set fishing limits

11. Why is gene pool diversity important to the survival of a species?

Species with diverse gene pools are better able to adapt to changes in the environment.

12. Explain how habitat destruction affects species.

Species loose the places to find food and shelter. If they cannot find a substitute niche, the will either have to move or die out.

13. Describe the importance of biodiversity to drug research,

Biodiversity helps prevent species from becoming extinct and we need the wild species to discover new medicines.