STS031 Biodiversity and the Healthy Society

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1. 1.8 billion ___________________ people used drinking water 17. dangerous social environmental hazards
used drinking water contaminated with feces work
poor housing
2. 2% World Wide Fund for Nature and Zoological
conditions
Society of London reported an annual
urban sprawl
decrease in wildlife by
poverty
3. 2 billion More than __________________ people lacked access
18. the Nutrition and biodiversity are linked at many
to basic sanitation
ecosystem, levels:
4. 60% Vertebrates fell to _____% from the ________s due with food
1970s to ______________________ production as
human causes an ecosystem
5. 67% It is projected that by 2020, wildlife decline service
will be ____% of the present number the species in
the
6. 2015 In ________, approximately _____________ children
ecosystem
350,000 under the age of five died from diarrheal
the genetic
diseases related to unsafe drinking water
diversity
7. abiotic nonliving organisms within species
8. alterations in alterations and sudden changes, either within 19. environmental increase the risk of cancer, heart disease,
ecosystem species groups or within the environment, hazards asthma, and many other illnesses
composition could begin to change entire ecosystems.
20. food causes environmental damage from
These are a critical factor contributing to
production esticides, fertilizers, soil sanitazation, waste
species and habitat loss
produced by livestock, carbon emmissions
9. Biodiversity is a major factor that contributes to from food manufacturing and transportation,
sustainable food production for human deforestation and overfishing
beings
21. global climate both climate variability and climate change
10. Biodiversity is defined as the vast variety of life forms in change cause biodiversity loss. species and
the entire Earth. it encompasses all kinds of populations may be lost permanently if they
life forms, from the single-celled organisms are not provided with enough time to adapt
to the largest multi-celled organisms to changing climatic conditions
11. biodiversity increases resilience by helping adjust to new 22. habitat loss major contributing factor is the inhabitation
environmental conditions and of human beings and the use of land for
12. biotic living organism destruction economic gains

13. Changing is often cited as the key reason for the 23. habitat loss major threats to biodiversity
consumptions unsustainable exploitation of natural and
patterns of resources destruction
humans alterations in
ecosystem
14. Charles basic concept about biodiversity loss was composition
Darwin from them over-
Alfred exploitation
Wallace pollution and
15. climate could have a serious impact on human health contamination
change and could deteriorate farming systems and global climate
reduce nutrients in some foods change

16. Constanza We must begin to give the natural capital 24. Hospitals use large quantities of eletrivity and fossil
stock that produces these services adequate fiels and produce medical wastes
weight in the decision-making process, 25. human A major cause of the decrease in wildlife is
otherwise, current and continued future population _______________________ which has doubled in
human welfare may drastically suffer... many 1960 number since ________ to _________________
ecosystems are literally irreplaceable 7.4 billion
26. Inquirer.net the disappearance of species in a certain 39. schistosomiasis infectious diseases cased by unsafe drinking
2016 environment causes an imbalance in the diarrhea water and poor sanitation
ecosystem, producing more chaotic cholera
changes that harm the entire ecosystem meningitis
gastritis
27. Interdisciplinary is needed to study the ecosystem
Approach 40. structural biology's definition is in the __________ and
functional ___________ perspective and not as
28. Malaria _______________ was eradicated in the United
individual _________________________________
1940s and 50s States and other developed nations in the
species
draining ______________________ as a result of
wetlands ________________________ and _______________ 41. Sustainability ensures a better survival rate against any
spraying DDT of the natural disaster
ecosystem
29. Marco the General Director of WWF International
Lambertini describes that the disappearance of 42. Tilman stated that "The Earth will retain its most
wildlife is at an unprecedented rate biodiversity striking feature, its _____________________, only if
humans have the persistence to do so. This
30. mass extinction is described as the disappearance of
will occur, it seems, only if we realize the
species at a rate of 1,000 faster than usual
extent to which we use biodiversity"
31. over- over-hunting, overfishing, or over-
43. United identified the major threats to biodiversity
exploitation collecting of species can quickly lead to
Nations'
its decline.
Environment
32. pesticides play an important role in increasing crop Programme
yield but they can pose hazards to human
44. Villaggio According to ________________________________,
health and the environment
Globale biodiversity is the variability among living
33. pollution and biological systems respond slowly to terrestrial organisms from all sources, including
contamination changes in their surrounding environment. marine aquatic ________________, _________ and other ______________________
this causes irreversible damage to species ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which
and varieties essential they are part; this includes diversity within
34. pollution physical environmental haazrds goods species, between species and of
toxic chemicals ecological ecosystems. Biodiversity is the source of
food services __________________________ and __________________________
contaminants that constitute the source of life for all and
it has direct conspumtive value in food,
35. Rainforest It is extremely difficult to estimate the
agriculture, and in industry
Conservation future costs of losses in the biodiversity
Fund or of the environmental damage 45. World Health According to _________________________________,
Organization biodiversity is a vital element of a human
36. Rainforest The value of biodiversity is the value of
being's nutrition because of its influence to
Conservation everything
food production
Fund
46. World Wide reported an annual decrease in wildlife by
37. Rensik and stated that "A reduction in mortality from
Fund for 2%
Portier starvation or diesease can lead to
Nature and
overpopulation, which stresses the
Zoological
environment in many different was-
Society of
increasing use of fossil fuels, clearing of
London
land, generationg pollution and waste, and
so on
38. safeguarding of is essential to reduce the risk of floods, as
coral reefs this extraordinary ecosystem can reduce
wave energy by 97% thus protecting over
100 million people all over the world