Biodiversity Complete the following paragraph to describe why biodiversity is important. Responses may be used more than once.
a. tropical rain forests
b. human
c. ecosystem
d. positive
e. coral leafs
f. species
g. negative
h. biodiversity
i. extinction
j. 8.7 million
k. 300 million
l. temperate deciduous
j. 2.3 million
1. One of the most important bioethical issues facing us today is the issue of or a loss there of
2. Defined as variation of life on Earth is the number and relative abundance of different .
3. It is estimated that there are as many as species in the world though as few as have actually been identified.
4. As the human population grows and demands more resources, isthreatened.
5. Human activities contribute to habitat loss, especially in the world's coral reefs and tropical rain forests. As a result, some organisms face or the death of their species
6. The growth of the population has destroyed up 25% of and threatened another 30% statistics are similar for .
7. Humans also face consequences in that we are dependent on the ecosystem we are destroying for everything from food to raw material.