AP Biology: Conservation Biology and Biodiversity flashcards

Question 1

What is the fast splitting of one lineage into many closely related species, spreading into different niches, called?

Accepted Answer

Adaptive radiation

Question 2

What term covers the variety of life in a system, usually counted as species but also applied to genes and ecosystems?

Accepted Answer

Biodiversity

Question 3

What is the variety of ecosystems in an area called?

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Ecosystem diversity

Question 4

What is the variety of genes within a species or other group called?

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Genetic diversity

Question 5

What do we call a species that has been introduced into an ecosystem where it did not evolve?

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Exotic species

Question 6

What term means the complete disappearance of a species from Earth?

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Extinction

Question 7

What is the disappearance of a species from one region, though it may survive elsewhere, called?

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Local extinction

Question 8

What term names how many species go extinct over a given period of time?

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Extinction rate

Question 9

What is the relationship between the size of a surveyed area and the number of species found called?

Accepted Answer

Species-area relationship

Question 10

What name is given to a wild-caught animal that is eaten as food?

Accepted Answer

Bush meat

Question 11

What term is used for large animals as a group?

Accepted Answer

Megafauna

Question 12

What economic principle says that a resource owned by everyone tends to be used up?

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Tragedy of the commons

Question 13

What term describes a sudden, dramatic loss of a large share of Earth's species within a short stretch of geological time?

Accepted Answer

Mass extinction

Question 14

In which direction does species diversity change as you move from the poles toward the equator?

Accepted Answer

It increases

Question 15

Which British environmentalist introduced the biodiversity hotspot concept in 1988?

Accepted Answer

Norman Myers

Question 16

What is the study of how species are distributed across the world, past and present, called?

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Biogeography

Question 17

What term describes benefits that organisms in an ecosystem provide to people, such as soil upkeep, pollination and pest control?

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Ecosystem services

Question 18

Which Norwegian-island facility stores backup copies of seeds from crop varieties around the world?

Accepted Answer

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Question 19

Which international treaty, in force since 1975, restricts cross-border trade in listed endangered species?

Accepted Answer

CITES

Question 20

Which U.S. law, passed in 1973, lists species at risk and requires management plans to recover them?

Accepted Answer

The Endangered Species Act

Question 21

What is the term for a land area set aside to protect the organisms living within its boundaries?

Accepted Answer

A preserve

Question 22

According to island biogeography theory, does an island far from the mainland hold more or fewer species at equilibrium than a near one?

Accepted Answer

Fewer

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