Loss of Biodiversity
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
Assignment:
Missing / wanted poster
Answers to end of chapter questions:
Chapter 18
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