Exam 11: Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity

The human demand for seafood has almost reached the level of the supply.

Use the Figure above to answer the following question(s). -What was the size of the catch in that year?

Restoring degraded wetlands is a relatively easy process.

Since 1980, the federal government has spent more than ____________________ in efforts to save the salmon in the Columbia River, without success.

Respond to E.O.Wilson's proposed priorities for protecting the world's remaining ecosystems and species.Do they seem appropriate and possible? Should they be put in place? Who should be in charge of seeing they come to pass?

Approximately ____________________% of the world's known marine fish species and ____________________% of the world's freshwater fish species face extinction in our lifetimes.

Plastic items dumped from ships and left as litter kill as many as 1 million seabirds and 100,000 mammals and sea turtles each year.

Marine Protected Areas are the only areas in the ocean where fish are totally protected from human activities.

The first letter "P" in the acronym HIPPCO stands for

Consumers have a role to play in sustaining aquatic biodiversity by demanding ____________________.

Scientists cataloging the biodiversity of the deepest ocean zone are adding a few thousand new species each year.

Whales are fairly easy to kill because of their large size, and because of their need to come to the surface to __________.

One strategy to protect the earth's biodiversity will cost approximately ____________________, which is the equivalent to a tax of one penny per cup of coffee consumed in the world each year.

Some fisheries biologists and managers have begun using the ____________________ to replace the maximum sustained yield.

The high reproductive rate of blue whales will make it possible for the species to recover from being hunted to near extinction, if the hunting stops.

HIPPCO is an acronym that aids in remembering

Restoration of the Everglades may take as much as 50 years to complete.

The negotiated plan to restore the Everglades is now coming apart because of competing interests.

The town of Samana in the Dominican Republic has gone from a run-down town to a tourist hot spot because of ____________________.

Use the Figure above to answer the following question(s). -Which letter indicates longlining?