Fill in the blanks:

A. India has a greater ___(a)__ diversity than a Scandinavian country like Norway.

B. The western Ghats have a greater ___(b)___ diversity than the eastern Ghats.

C. It has taken millions of years of evolution to accumulate the rich diversity in nature, but we could lose all the wealth in less than ___(c)___. if the present rates of species losses continue.

D. For many taxonomic groups, species inventories are more complete in __(d)__ than in ___(e)___ countries.

	a	b	c	d	e
1.	ecological	amphibian species	two centuries	temperate	tropical
2.	amphibian species	ecological	three decades	temperate	tropical
3.	ecosystem	amphibian species	100 years	tropical	temperate
4.	amphibian species	ecosystem	two centuries	tropical	temperate