AP Environmental Science: Unit 9 Review - Global Change

Potential causes

Potential causes

________- extensively hunted, outcompeted by invasive species, specific and limited habitat requirements.

Solutions

________- criminalizing poaching, protecting animal habitats, legislation.

Human

________ Impacts on Biodiversity.

HIPPCO

________- habitat destruction, invasive species, population growth, pollution, climate change, and over exploitation.

Pros

________: new marine habitat cons: deeper communities that may no longer be in the photic zone of seawater.

AP Environmental Science

________: Unit 9 Review- Global Change.

Selective pressures

________- resource availability, environmental conditions, biological factors.

Ocean acidification

________- the decrease in pH of the oceans, primarily due to increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.

Global climate change

________- can cause habitat loss via changes in temperature, precipitation, and sea level rise.

Greenhouse gases

________- carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

Invasive species

________- species that can live and sometimes thrive outside of their normal habitat, often generalists.

Solutions

________- creating protected areas, use of habitat corridors, promoting sustainable land use practices, restoring lost habitats, creating legislation (CITES, Endangered Species Act)

Solutions

________- physical removal /prevention through inspecting boats, shipping crates, luggage for exotic species.