IMPORTANCE OF BIODIVERSITY AND THREATS TO ECOSYSTEM
Across
- 3. A biodiversity is variability of life on earth. It can be measured on various level.
- 5. Change: Rising temperatures, altered precipitation patterns.
- 7. Destruction: Human activities like deforestation, urbanization, and infrastructure.
- 8. Diversity: It provides the raw material for evolution and species' survival over time.
- 10. Overhunting, overfishing, and unsustainable resource harvesting.
Down
- 1. Services: services are the various benefits that humans derived from healthy ecosystem.
- 2. The loss of biodiversity for food and agriculture, including genetic erosion.
- 4. Species: Non-native species can outcompete native species for resources.
- 6. Benefits. Biodiversity supports industries like agriculture, fishing, tourism, and forestry.
- 9. Chemical pollutants, plastic waste, and excess nutrients harm ecosystems.