AP Environmental Science: Unit 9 Review - Global Change

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Potential causes
________- extensively hunted, outcompeted by invasive species, specific and limited habitat requirements.
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Solutions
________- criminalizing poaching, protecting animal habitats, legislation.
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Human
________ Impacts on Biodiversity.
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HIPPCO
________- habitat destruction, invasive species, population growth, pollution, climate change, and over exploitation.
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Pros
________: new marine habitat cons: deeper communities that may no longer be in the photic zone of seawater.
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AP Environmental Science
________: Unit 9 Review- Global Change.
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Selective pressures
________- resource availability, environmental conditions, biological factors.
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Ocean acidification
________- the decrease in pH of the oceans, primarily due to increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.
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Global climate change
________- can cause habitat loss via changes in temperature, precipitation, and sea level rise.
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Greenhouse gases
________- carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
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Invasive species
________- species that can live and sometimes thrive outside of their normal habitat, often generalists.
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Solutions
________- creating protected areas, use of habitat corridors, promoting sustainable land use practices, restoring lost habitats, creating legislation (CITES, Endangered Species Act)
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Solutions
________- physical removal /prevention through inspecting boats, shipping crates, luggage for exotic species.