Assessment #1:

A. Identify the terms being asked in each question.

1. It refers to the species richness of an area.
2. It is the number of species found in a community.
3. It indicates the number of species in a single community.
4. It pertains to the degree of to which species composition changes along an environmental
gradient.
5. It indicates the rate at which additional species are encountered in a geographical
replacements within a habitat type in different localities.
6. – 7. Give the two productive and consumptive values.
8.-10. List three indirect values.

B. Tell if it is Consumptive, Productive, Medicine, Aesthetic, Ecological, Cultural, or Option

values.

1. A large section of human population is dependent on food, which we gather from seas, and
oceans that is harvested from free roaming wild organisms.
2. Animal products are sources of drugs, analgesics pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, heart
regulators, anticancer and ant parasite drugs, blood pressure regulators, anticoagulants,
enzymes, and hormones.
3. Wild species of plants and animals have always appealed man’s psyche.
4. A particular species or community of organisms may have emotional value for a group of
people who feel that their identity is inextricably linked to the natural components of the
environment that shaped their culture.
5. This refers to the use of various species for the benefit of mankind, sometime in future.