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Study Guide Questions
1. Who accompanied most exploring expeditions of the Nineteenth Century?
2. What North American animal was facing extinction at the end of the last century?
3. Why is the total number of living species only an approximation?
4. What are the most abundant and diversified forms of life on the planet?
5. How many known species of insects are there in the world?
6. What is one estimate for the total number of insect species?
7. The tropics, with six percent of the world's land surface, contain what percentage of insect species?
8. Which kind of natural community is more stable--simple or diverse?
9. Would a cornfield be considered a simple or diverse natural community?
10. Genetic diversity is aesthetically pleasing, but scientists can always recreate genetic material if a species becomes extinct. True or false?
11. Shaking pollen from one variety of a species onto another variety is called what?
12. One-half of all prescription drugs are derived from plants and animals. True or false?
13. Without man's interference, about how often do species become extinct?
14. What is the rate of species extinction today?
15. What does it mean to say that a species is endemic to a region?
16. Where is the largest unbroken rain forest in the world?
17. What percent of the world's species faces extinction today?
18. Animals that exist only in zoos or in other protected areas are called "________________ ."
19. Where are seeds kept for protection against their species' extinction?
20. To preserve seeds, should they be kept cool and dry or warm and damp?
21. What can one person do to preserve the state of the earth?
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