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| The relationship between humans and their enviornment. |
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Limits that increase as population size increases
ex: disease, paracites, competition, preditors. |
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| Density Independent Limits |
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| Limits that affect a population regardless of population sizeex: storms, flood, tempurture. |
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| birth rate-death rate = growth rate |
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| The variety of species in an area |
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-dry season/wet season
- always warm
-frequent fires in dry season
many herbivores |
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-high biodeversity
-sunlight changes in depth of ocean/bay
-wet sand
-many species of plants |
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-high biodeversity
-a lot of rain and sunlight
-always warm
-many plants and animals |
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-low biodeversity
-dry
-hot in day cold at night
- very few plants and animals |
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| Why is biodeversity important? |
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-stability
-provides food source
- possible drug development
-provides the world beauty |
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| What happens when biodeversity is threatened? |
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-species are threatened
-endagered species
-poossible extinction |
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| Human destruction of forests |
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| when plants are harvested and plants become less fertile |
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| Herds of cattle and sheep overgraze grasslands |
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| process where chemical becomes highly concentrated in the bodies of upper level consumers |
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| Introduction of organisms that are not native to an area |
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| adding anything to the enviornment or affecting the enviornment in a way that makes it less fit for living |
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| tonds of waste are produced everydat |
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| large area lines to prevent leakage where waste is dumped and buried |
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Waste is burned and ashes are put in a landfill
doesnt use to much land
creates a lot of air polution |
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| -poisonous waste dumped into waterays from cities, farms, and industries |
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| mercury poinsoning in japan |
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