Biodiversity and Healthy Society: Amazon Rainforest and Coral Triangle

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What percentage of the world's known biodiversity is housed in the Amazon Rainforest?

  • 20%
  • 10% (correct)
  • 5%
  • 15%

Which of the following countries does NOT have a portion of the Amazon Rainforest?

  • India (correct)
  • Colombia
  • Brazil
  • Peru

Which marine region spans the marine waters of the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste?

  • Great Barrier Reef
  • Coral Triangle (correct)
  • Maldives
  • Red Sea

What percentage of the world's coral species are found in the Coral Triangle?

<p>76% (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which area has the most coral reef fish diversity in the world?

<p>Coral Triangle (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What percentage of the fishes in the Coral Triangle are endemic or locally restricted species?

<p>8% (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What term was coined by Walter Rosen in 1985?

<p>Biodiversity (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity define as biodiversity?

<p>Diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How is species richness commonly measured in biodiversity?

<p>By counting all species in an area (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What plays a major role in the dynamics of the relationship between biotic and abiotic in ecosystems?

<p>Biodiversity (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the outcome of over 3 billion years of evolutionary history?

<p>Biodiversity (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the portmanteau of biological and diversity?

<p>Biodiversity (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What encompasses the variety of all life on earth?

<p>Biodiversity (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which term refers to the variability among living organisms from all sources including terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and their ecological complexes?

<p>'Biodiversity' (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What role does biodiversity play in the dynamics of the relationship between biotic and abiotic in ecosystems?

<p>'Major role' (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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