What is the value, to humankind, of biodiversity?
What will be an ideal response?
Biodiversity provides valuable ecosystem services (e.g., pollination, new food choices, continued soil fertility, and pest control for agriculture free of charge). Biodiversity provides a wide variety of traditional medicines and high-tech pharmaceutical products. Biodiversity provides economic benefits through tourism and recreation. Perhaps most importantly, as E.O. Wilson and Richard Louv have insisted, people need, value, and seek out connections with nature which offer such intangible services as creative inspiration, self-growth, and the experiences of beauty and peace of mind.
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Which of the following Earth layers is the thinnest?
a) oceanic crust b) upper mantle c) lower mantle d) outer core e) inner core
Earthflows and slumps generally involve movement of unconsolidated or weakly consolidated soil and regolith
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Exfoliation can be the result of unloading or ________
A) jointing B) glaciation C) sideways compression D) chemical weathering E) salt wedging