Ch.12 Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity Review
After studying the chapter, you should be able to answer these questions.
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What are the major threats to aquatic biodiversity?
How can we protect and sustain marine biodiversity?
How should we manage and sustain marine fisheries?
How should we protect and sustain wetlands?
How should we protect and sustain freshwater lakes, rivers, and fisheries?
What should be our priorities for sustaining aquatic biodiversity?
To depict Dr. Jackson’s talk TED Talk, construct a concept map including these terms in a way that demonstrates your
knowledge.
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Use at least four colors
Connect each term to at least two other terms.
Add to most (more than half), on connector lines or arrow, a word or two to help explain the connection. An
example is to add the words “leads to” to an arrow connecting “algae” and “asphyxiation.”
Acute respiratory distress
Algae
Asphyxiation
Caulerpa taxifolia
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9. Cheap fish
11. Climate change
13. Collapse of cod
15. Continental shelves
17. Coral reef bleaching
19. Coral reefs
21. Dead zones
23. Dinoflagellate bloom
25. Dissolved oxygen
27. Future of life
29. Global ocean
Jellyfish
Mississippi Delta
Nitrogen fertilizer
Northwestern Gulf of
Mexico
10. Nutrients
12. Overfishing
14. Plankton
16. Positive feedback
18. Sea urchins
20. Sea birds
22. Serial depletion
24. Stratified
26. Symbiosis
28. Synergy
30. Toxic bloom
31. Great anchoveta fisheries
33. Green Revolution
32. Trawling
34. Two kinds of biological
35. Habitat destruction
37. Industrial fishing
39. Invasive species
pollution
36. Upwelling
38. Warmer ocean
40. Density change