Identify three ways humans contribute to extinction
1. Habitat destruction, harvesting, and pollution
2. Habitat destruction, reclamation, reproduction
3. Captive breeding programs, game preserves, zoos
4. All of the above
Answer: Human activities that influence the extinction and endangerment of wild species fall into a number of categories: (1) unsustainable hunting and harvesting that cause mortality at rates that exceed recruitment of new individuals, (2) land use practices like deforestation, urban and suburban development, agricultural cultivation, and water management projects that encroach upon and/or destroy natural habitat, (3) intentional or unintentional introduction of destructive diseases
