GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
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Question
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The practice of harvesting or hunting to such a degree that remaining individuals may not be able to replenish the population is called ____
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biomagnification
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overexploitation
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edge effects
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natural resource
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Overexploitation-which is the harvesting of game animals, fish, or other organisms beyond the capacity for surviving populations to replace their losses-results in some species being depleted to very low numbers and others being driven to extinction.
Detailed explanation-2: -Overfished: this is sometimes termed ‘overexploited’. These are fish stocks where we catch fish faster than these populations can reproduce. As a result, populations decline and stocks become depleted to levels lower than the most productive level. This is unsustainable.
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