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Resources
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Biodiversity
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Conservation Biology
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Environmental Problems
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Pollution
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Miscellaneous
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The type of resource that can be regenerated?
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Renewable
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The type of resource that cannot be replenished.
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Nonrenewable
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The way of using natural resources without depleting them?
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Sustainable Development
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Catching fish faster than they can reproduce?
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Overfishing
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The removal of forests is called?
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Deforestation
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The number of species in an ecosystem is called?
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Biodiversity
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When a species is wiped off the face of the earth?
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extinction
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When a species numbers become so low that it might go extinct?
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Endangered
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When a species number drop drastically the species becomes?
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Threatened
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What is the order of progression for something going extinct.
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Threatened species, then endangered species, then extinct
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The management of natural resources and the preservation of habitats is called?
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Conservation
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When an effort is made to put a species back into its natural environment after it has been driven out is called?
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Reintroduction Program
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What is the number one cause of species decline?
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Habitat Loss
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Which of the following is extinct? Passenger Pigeon, American Bald Eagle, Manatee, Giant Panda, Buffalo (Bison)
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Passenger Pigeon
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When a wildlife area is separated into several areas it is called?
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Habitat Fragmentation
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An increase in the average temperature of the biosphere is called?
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Global Warming
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The layer above earth that helps keep out harmful UV radiation?
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Ozone layer
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What is the main gas that increases global warming?
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Carbon Dioxide
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Any material that enters the biosphere that is harmful to the environment is called?
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Pollutant
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What gas is responsible for the hole in the ozone layer?
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CFC’s or Chlorofluorocarbons
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What are the 3 types of pollution?
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Land, Air, & Water
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This is a type of air pollution?
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Smog
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Most air pollution is caused by?
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The burning of fossil fuels.
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This type of pollution combines with water and falls to the earth?
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Acid Precipitation or Acid Rain
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This type of habitat loss is caused by pollution.
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Habitat Degradation
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The term used to describe non- native species in an area.
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Exotic Species
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What type of forest is considered non- renewable?
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Old Growth
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These are used to contain oil spills?
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Boom
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These materials are used to soak up oil spills?
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Sorbents
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What is evidence that global warming is increasing?
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Melting of the polar ice caps
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