ECOLOGY
BIODIVERSITY AND ITS CONSERVATION
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Population growth
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Habitat Loss
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Overexploitation
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Clean water
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Detailed explanation-1: -Land use change, pollution, poor water quality, chemical and waste contamination, climate change and other causes of ecosystem degradation all contribute to biodiversity loss and, can pose considerable threats to human health.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer. Answer: ‘Planting of trees’ is not a factor contributing to the loss of biodiversity.
Detailed explanation-3: -Solution : Keeping animals in zoological parks is not a cause for loss of biodiversity.
Detailed explanation-4: -The human population requires resources to survive and grow, and many of those resources are being removed unsustainably from the environment. The five main threats to biodiversity are habitat loss, pollution, overexploitation, invasive species, and climate change.
Detailed explanation-5: -The human population requires resources to survive and grow, and those resources are being removed unsustainably from the environment. The three greatest proximate threats to biodiversity are habitat loss, overharvesting, and introduction of exotic species.