Science 2206- Fall 1999 (Assignment 3)

By going to the web and applying information from class (and class handouts), answer the following questions. Answers must be 3 - 4 typewritten pages, 10-12 font, stapled together. This assignment is due at the beginning of class on Monday, 22 November 1999. This assignment is worth 15 points.

Go to the web site:

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/infoserv/biogen/biogen.html

 

Based on what you've read, answer the following:

 

1) What are the major reasons for the decline in biodiversity?

2) Why is biodiversity important. Discuss at least two different ways in which it is important.

3) If extinction is a natural process (which it is), why are biologists (and others) so concerned about the loss of biodiversity?

4) Link the issue of biodiversity to the themes of: Urban World, Sustainability, and Values and Knowledge.