An Area That Restricts or Prohibits Habitat Loss and Degradation

question 186

Multiple Choice

An area that restricts or prohibits habitat loss and degradation and that is designed to conserve and manage biodiversity and to replenish populations that might otherwise become extinct is known as a(n)

• A) natural ecosystem.
• B) biodiversity area.
• C) coupled human-natural system.
• D) suburb.
• E) protected area.

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Definitions:

Carbon Dioxide Fixation

The process of converting atmospheric carbon dioxide into a usable form of carbon by living organisms, crucial in photosynthesis.

RuBP

Ribulose biphosphate, a molecule that acts as the acceptor of carbon dioxide in the first step of the Calvin cycle during photosynthesis.

Carbons

Chemical elements with the symbol C and atomic number 6, essential to all known life, and the basis of organic chemistry.

Electron Transport Chain

A series of complexes that transfer electrons from electron donors to electron acceptors via redox reactions, and couples this electron transfer with the transfer of protons (H+ ions) across a membrane.