The Diversity Of Living Things - 1613 Words

Caroline Shepherd STSE Diversity of Living Things 1. Benefits to human intervention: -Providing animals to a secure environment where humans will not interact with the animals. -Creation of animal protection law Risks to human intervention: -Destruction of habitat -Increase in pollution -Overexploitation -Introduction of invasive species 2. Climate change would have an impact on all members of the food chain. There would be lots of habitat loss and animals would have to try to move to a different location for food and then the animals that hunted those animals would have to find a new food source and some plants would be affected and die off because they cannot move. This would affect the diversity because then the populations would be†¦show more content†¦7. The increase of ocean temperatures would cause the coral to go through something called coral bleaching. Coral bleaching is what happens when there is a loss of the algae on the coral. The increase in ocean temperatures damages the algae and soon kills the coral too. An increase in ocean temperature would mean that the coral would die, and all the species that used coral for food and shelter would die off along with it. 8. The longer growing seasons or two harvests, have affected the biodiversity of agricultural lands by allowing there to be more diversity between all the crops. This is a positive outcome, however, if the farmer is monocropping, then that will damage the health of the soil. 9. A species such as the Massasauga rattlesnake would be drastically affected by increased water levels in their habitats. Snakes slither along the ground and would therefore be at a disadvantage in water. Some snakes have adapted and become able to swim, but the Massasauga rattlesnake does not, and if it were to do so, that would take a very long time to do so, possibly they would be extinct before then. Their dens are also holes in the ground, increased water levels would be a problem in case of flooding. Genetics 1. Discrimination, inappropriate applications of genetic testing, it is unnatural, a bit of uncertainty 2. Computational biology: the science of