Ecosystem management & reasons for protection. Pre-reading p 31-36
Across
- 2. There are a range of methods to protect the earth’s biodiversity including o Setting aside and protecting large areas of wilderness, zoos, botanic gardens and _______ _________.
- 6. The diversity of life on earth is of inestimable value. The ____________ of the environment is central to the future wellbeing the Earth and its inhabitants.
- 10. A threat to biodiversity derived from poisons produced to dispose of unwanted organisms.
- 13. Changes in areas around protected buffer zones could affect ___________ patterns of species.
- 14. Characteristics that enable organisms to cope with stress.
- 15. Ecosystems that are have a greater resilience are able to recover more readily from natural and human stress. Such ecosystems are typically rich in _____________.
- 17. Holding an ecocentric world view Australia's _____________ peoples demonstrate appreciation of the intrinsic value of environments through history and culture.
- 19. The value of natural features consisting of formations which are of outstanding universal value from the aesthetic or scientific point of view.
- 21. Plays a critical role in developing public support for heritage listing.
- 22. As an example of utility value, our survival as a species depends on just a few species of ______
Down
- 1. A loss of even a small amount of rainforest could mean the loss of potential ____________
- 3. The modern country where wheat originally came from.
- 4. Protection and preservation measures alone will not be sufficient to save many species from ___________.
- 5. The diversity of life forms on Earth is a product of these ongoing processes.
- 7. When a species is successful at regeneration and adaption it is less ______________ to changes in its ecosystem.
- 8. Ecosystems play a vital role in processes critical to human wellbeing. An examples of this utility value are recycling nutrients and wastes, maintaining air quality and _________ water.
- 9. Accounts for 23% of animal extinction since 1600.
- 11. Pest-controlling strategies that involve the introduction of organisms are designed to bring what within an ecosystem?
- 12. Protecting large areas of ecosystems is critical to allow __________ change to proceed.
- 16. The value of an ecosystem having the right to exist irrespective of its utility value. These include the aesthetic qualities and providing for the inspirational and spiritual needs of people.
- 18. The value that describes all living and non-living components of Earth's ecosphere as having an existing or potential usefulness.
- 20. A specific utility value that quantifies the value of contained resources that could be exploited is is its __________ value.