Topic 3: Biodiversity (HL)
7 review questions with answers for Topic 3: Biodiversity (HL). Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
Informal name for the present interval of Earth history in which human activity is the dominant driver of environmental change and extinction?
- Mass extinctions
- Ecotourism
- AnthropoceneRight answer
- Sympatric speciation
All 7 questions and answers
Informal name for the present interval of Earth history in which human activity is the dominant driver of environmental change and extinction?
Answer: Anthropocene
The five previous events in Earth history when large proportions of species became extinct rapidly?
Answer: Mass extinctions
Areas of the world containing unusually high concentrations of endemic and threatened species?
Answer: Biodiversity hotspots
Speciation in which a physical barrier, such as a mountain range or a sea, separates populations of a species?
Answer: Allopatric speciation
Speciation without geographical separation, when populations living in the same area become reproductively isolated?
Answer: Sympatric speciation
Humans choosing which individuals breed, so that chosen traits become more common in a population over generations, often narrowing its genetic diversity?
Answer: Artificial selection
Tourism to natural areas that funds conservation and supports local communities?
Answer: Ecotourism
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options are other answers from the same set.