DP Environmental Systems and Societies Questionbank

To what extent are strategies to promote the conservation of biodiversity successful?

With reference to information in the resource booklet, evaluate the sustainability of Canada’s management of the Large Ocean Management Area of the St Lawrence River estuary and Gulf of St Lawrence.

With reference to Figure 9(a), outline how the round goby both positively and negatively affects the St Lawrence River ecosystem.

Suggest why the St Lawrence River beluga whale population has not recovered despite being given protected status in 1983.

With reference to Figures 3(a) and 3(b) describe the trends in Iceland’s population dynamic

Distinguish between the mass extinctions evident in the fossil record and extinctions within historic times.

For a named endangered species, discuss why it is endangered and why it should be conserved.

Describe two factors that may be used to determine a species’ Red List status and how each may be affected by human activity.

State two possible factors that may have led to the gorillas being endangered.

Predict how the introduction of a non-native species may affect this lake ecosystem.

Identify two factors that have given the African elephant Red List status.

Explain how predation may lead to long-term population decrease or extinction of the prey species.

Identify two possible reasons why species B and C were not present in the litter layer when it was resampled six months later.

Suggest possible reasons for the changes you have identified in (c)(i).

With reference to Figure 6, identify two changes in land use that have taken place in the Copperbelt Province between 1972 and 2000.

Explain two factors which lead to a loss of marine (ocean) biodiversity.

Evaluate the proposal to convert an area of tropical rainforest into agricultural use.

Justify whether or not Mesquite should be cleared from the Swakop River Valley.

Explain one factor that may make a species less prone to extinction.

Identify two ways in which the current extinction differs from mass extinctions in the past.

Identify four impacts on an ecosystem that may result from the introduction of an invasive species of herbivore.

With reference to data throughout the resource booklet, to what extent would the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) benefit marine ecosystems and human societies within the Coral Triangle?

Discuss the consequences of changing global per capita meat consumption on the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity.

Explain why the harvesting of a named aquatic species may be controversial.

Explain the causes, and the possible consequences, of the loss of a named critically endangered species.

To what extent does Algonquin Provincial Park provide a model of sustainable management of a protected area?

Identify two ways that human activity in Algonquin Provincial Park may affect the food web.

Discuss the role of humans in the destabilization of ecological systems.

Discuss the implications of environmental value systems in the protection of tropical biomes.

To what extent might Iceland be viewed as a role model for sustainability by other countries?

Identify two reasons why the future size of the Atlantic puffin population is difficult to predict.

To what extent could development away from traditional lifestyles lead to greater sustainability in Madagascar?

Identify one of the criteria that may have been used by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List to classify aye-aye as endangered.

Explain how changes in the concentration of stratospheric and tropospheric ozone in the atmosphere can affect global biodiversity.

Identify four reasons why the genetic diversity of a population may change over time.

With reference to the species listed in the resource booklet, Figure 4, identify two factors that may have contributed to their status given on the IUCN Red List.