Ecosystems and global biodiversity (HSC Geography 2022 Focus Area 3) quiz
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Which of the following best defines an ecosystem?
The HIPPO framework, popularised by E.O. Wilson, organises which set of biodiversity drivers?
Conservation International's biodiversity hotspots framework requires a region to meet which two criteria?
The Great Barrier Reef was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in:
Mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef is primarily driven by:
Which conservation approach protects species in their natural habitat?
Which species was deliberately introduced to north Queensland in 1935 as biological control for cane beetles, but failed at the intended job and instead spread west and north, poisoning native predators?
Which Australian species was listed as Endangered under the EPBC Act in February 2022 across Queensland, NSW and the ACT?
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) and subsequent IPBES reports group ecosystem services into how many categories, and which of the following is one of them?
MacArthur and Wilson's theory of island biogeography (1967) identifies which two factors as the primary determinants of how many species an island will support?
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted at COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity in December 2022, replaced which previous set of biodiversity targets?
Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) in Australia are best described as:
The Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan is best described as: