Overexploitation Encourages Extinction and Is Most Likely to Affect

question 19

Multiple Choice

Overexploitation encourages extinction and is most likely to affect

• A) animals that occupy a broad ecological niche.
• B) large animals with low intrinsic reproductive rates.
• C) most organisms that live in the oceans.
• D) terrestrial organisms more than aquatic organisms.
• E) edge-adapted species.

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Definitions:

Liberty

Living without the influence of restricting authority over one’s personal life choices, behaviors, or political ideologies within the social order.

Colonies

Territories under the political control of an outside power, often settled by people from that power and exploited for economic benefit.

Navigation Acts

A series of British laws that regulated colonial trade and enabled England to collect taxes from its colonies by controlling goods shipped to and from the colonies.

British Regulating Trade

The set of policies and laws implemented by Britain to control trade within its empire, including the colonies.