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Chapter Vocabulary Review
Match each term with its definition.
1. extirpation
2. biodiversity
3. endemic
4. poaching
5. threatened species
6. biodiversity hotspot
7. captive breeding
a. differences in DNA among individuals
within species and populations
b. a U.S. law that protects biodiversity
c. mating and raising animals in zoos and
similar controlled conditions
d. a part of the world that harbors
particularly high biodiversity
e. found nowhere else in the world
f. regional extinction
8. Endangered Species Act
g. illegal capturing or killing of an organism
9. genetic diversity
h. the variety of life across all levels of
ecological organization
10. endangered species
i. a species at risk of extinction
j. a species at risk of becoming endangered
Use each vocabulary term in a sentence.
11. Species diversity
12. Habitat fragmentation
13. Species Survival Plan
14. ecosystem diversity
EXTENSION Sort the ten chapter vocabulary words above into three groups. Compare
your groupings with a classmate’s. Discuss the basis on which you sorted the terms.
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