Question: What types of species disappear when a new disease is introduced?
Answer: those that buffer against infectious disease transmission

Question: How many mass extinctions have happened since Life began on Earth?
Answer: five major mass extinctions

Question: When was the period where the majority of multicellular phyla first appeared?
Answer: the Cambrian explosion

Question: What happened in the Carboniferous?
Answer: rainforest collapse led to a great loss of plant and animal life.

Question: When was the Permian–Triassic extinction event?
Answer: 251 million years ago

Question: How long did vertebrate recovery take?
Answer: 30 million years

Question: What century started the increase of species invasions?
Answer: 1900s

Question: Who intentionally and unintentionally moves species around?
Answer: humans

Question: What invaders are causing changes in the Great Lakes region?
Answer: zebra mussels and the emerald ash borer

Question: What invaders are causing changes along the North American Atlantic coast?
Answer: lion fish

Question: How many plant species does Brazil's Atlantic Forest contain?
Answer: 20,000 plant species

Question: How many vertebrates does Brazil's Atlantic Forest contain?
Answer: 1,350 vertebrates

Question: Which country has the highest rate of species by area unit worldwide?
Answer: Colombia

Question: Which country has about 10% of the species on Earth?
Answer: Colombia

Question: What island separated from mainland Africa 66 million years ago?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: What limits the amount of life that can live at once on Earth?
Answer: global carrying capacity

Question: What type of animal shows a logistic pattern of growth?
Answer: life in the sea

Question: What type of animal shows an exponential rise in diversity?
Answer: life on land

Question: What percentage of potentially habitable modes have Tetrapods not yet invaded?
Answer: 64 per cent

Question: What was the increase in population from 1950 to 2011?
Answer: world population increased from 2.5 billion to 7 billion

Question: What year started the increase of population to 7 billion?
Answer: From 1950

Question: What is the forecast plateau that the population will reach during the 21st century?
Answer: more than 9 billion

Question: Who is the former chief scientific adviser to the UK government?
Answer: Sir David King

Question: What farms use biologically destructive pesticides
Answer: monoculture farms

Question: What is one of the great agricultural challenges that farmers face?
Answer: The control of associated biodiversity

Question: What farmers use integrated pest management strategies?
Answer: polyculture farmers

Question: What farmers are generally less dependent on capital, biotechnology and energy?
Answer: polyculture farmers

Question: What types of parks receive special protection against damage or degradation?
Answer: National park and nature reserve

Question: Who selects National parks?
Answer: governments or private organizations

Question: What is the goal of protecting National Parks from damage?
Answer: with the objective of biodiversity and landscape conservation

Question: Who usually owns and manages National parks?
Answer: national or state governments

Question: What activities are prohibited in national parks?
Answer: Forestry operations, grazing of animals and hunting of animals

Question: Who is the German Federal Environment Minister?
Answer: Sigmar Gabriel

Question: What year did Gabriel estimate 30% of of all species will be extinct by?
Answer: 2050

Question: How many plant species are close to extinction?
Answer: about one eighth

Question: 2012 studies estimated what percentage of mammals could be extinct in 20 years?
Answer: 25%

Question: What is systematically related to the numbers of species?
Answer: Habitat size

Question: What animals are more sensitive to reduction in habitat area?
Answer: Physically larger species and those living at lower latitudes or in forests or oceans

Question: How is a standardized ecosystem formed?
Answer: monoculture following deforestation

Question: What leads to biodiversity loss is some countries?
Answer: lack of property rights or lax law/regulatory enforcement

Question: What animal unintentionally invaded the US waterways?
Answer: the zebra mussel

Question: What animal intentionally invaded Hawaii?
Answer: mongooses

Question: What animals were not vulnerable to the mongoose?
Answer: nocturnal rats

Question: What countries experienced unintended consequences from species invasion?
Answer: Indonesia and Malaysia,

Question: What type of science is firmly fixated on the visible world?
Answer: Contemporary biodiversity physics

Question: What type of life is more metabolically diverse than multicellular life?
Answer: microbial life

Question: What type of life is more enviromentally diverse than multicellular life?
Answer: microbial life

Question: What rate supports the Holocene extinction hypothesis?
Answer: Insect extinction rates

Question: What term describes the number and variety of plants, animals and other organisms in existence?
Answer: biodiversity

Question: What ensures the survival of human species by providing food, shelter, other resources to mankind?
Answer: biodiversity

Question: What influences richness of biodiversity?
Answer: the climatic conditions and area of the region

Question: What term describes all the species of plants in existence?
Answer: flora

Question: Which scientist first used the term biological diversity?
Answer: Raymond F. Dasmann

Question: What book first contained the term biological diversity?
Answer: A Different Kind of Country

Question: What decade did the term biological diversity become common usage in science and economics?
Answer: the 1980s

Question: Who introduced the term biological diversity to the scientific community?
Answer: Thomas Lovejoy

Question: What term was common before biological diversity?
Answer: "natural diversity"

Question: What provides critical support for drug discovery and the availability of medicinal resources?
Answer: Biodiversity

Question: What percentage of US drugs are derived from plants, animals, and micro-organisms?
Answer: at least 50%

Question: What field has biodiversity made critical advances in?
Answer: bionics

Question: What percentage of worldwide drugs are derived from nature?
Answer: about 80%

Question: What popularized the use of conventional hybridization to increase yield?
Answer: the Green Revolution

Question: What did the high yield strains become resistant to?
Answer: local climate and diseases

Question: Who has been pushing for hybridization?
Answer: Local governments and industry

Question: What caused the loss of biodiversity?
Answer: Formerly huge gene pools of various wild and indigenous breeds have collapsed causing widespread genetic erosion

Question: What is the ASCII based on?
Answer: English alphabet

Question: How many specific characters are there in the ASCII code?
Answer: 128 specified characters

Question: How many are non-printing control characters?
Answer: 33 are non-printing control characters

Question: How many characters are printable characters? 
Answer: 95 printable characters

Question: What is the space also known as what?
Answer: invisible graphic:223

Question: Why was the code patterned so that most codes were together?
Answer: for ease of identification

Question: How many positions are in the first two columns?
Answer: 32 positions

Question: What did the committee decide was important?
Answer: to support uppercase 64-character alphabets

Question: Where was the letter A places in position?
Answer: 41hex

Question: ASCII was incorporated into what other character set?
Answer: Unicode

Question: How many of the symbols are the same in the beginning of the ASCII and Unicode?
Answer: 128 symbols

Question: What set is backward compatible with 7-bit ASCII?
Answer: UTF-8