Biodiversity Loss

Essential Questions:

Chapter 18:

Explain the major causes of declining biodiversity

How do invasive species get here and why are they a problem?

What are the ways we can protect biodiversity?


Vocabulary:

Describing species

Threatened, endangered, native, exotic, alien, invasive

Efforts to preserve biodiversity

seed banks, biosphere reserves

Laws and Treaties

The Lacy Act

The Endangered Species Act

Marine Mammal Protection Act

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

Convention on Biodiversity

Media:

invasive/extinct/endangered species

Environmental Literacy Council

Invasive species

Endangered Species

Extinct species

Assignment:

Missing / wanted poster






End of Module Questions


Module 59

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  2. a

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Module 60

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Module 61

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