Ecosystem Changes

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Which event in an ecosystem may produce a negative effect? Options: Preventing deer from depleting food resources, Restoring a natural habitat, Wildlife rangers minimizing disturbances, A lumber company clearing a forest.

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A lumber company clearing a forest.

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Hunting is an environmental management tool that helps control wildlife populations. Hunting is an example of -

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humans creating change in an ecosystem

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Effect of highway construction through a forest on organisms?

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Make it difficult for animals to move through the forest

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How might removing the alligators from a swamp habitat create a decrease in vegetation?

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More plant-eating animals would survive.

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If humans over-hunted a population of insect-eating birds, what immediate change would likely be seen in the area?

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Increased populations of insects

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Raccoons eat aquatic animals. If chemicals entered the lake with rain water and destroyed the plants, how would this impact the raccoon population?

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Raccoons would have less aquatic animals to eat.

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What would help balance an ecosystem with too many rabbits? Options: more rain that grass needs, fewer foxes that eat rabbits, more foxes that eat rabbits, more grass for the rabbits to eat.

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more foxes that eat rabbits

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How would beavers building a dam cause an increase in the fish population?

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blocks a river and creates a lake.

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What might scientists conclude from the observation that the number of raccoons increased where people built houses?

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Raccoons found more food living near people

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If humans cleared a forest and built homes where the forest once was, what would we expect? Options: More development of soil, Fewer tree-dwelling animals, More frequent thunderstorms, Increased insect population.

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Fewer tree-dwelling animals

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