Ecosystem Services Lesson

​Ecosystems services

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Multiple Choice

Fruits, fish, and livestock are examples of which ecosystem service?

• Regulating

• Provisioning

• Cultural

• Supporting

Multiple Choice

Music, art, and architecture born from interactions with nature are examples of which ecosystem service?

• Provisioning

• Cultural

• Regulating

• Supporting

Multiple Select

Which of the following would be a regulating ecosystem service (2)?

• Bees pollinating flowers

• Wild plants that serve medical purposes

• Tourism

• Fish that are used to feed populations of humans

Multiple Choice

Goods taken directly from ecosystems or made from their natural resources.

• provisioning services

• regulating services

• cultural services

• supporting services

Multiple Choice

Parks, camping, and tours

• cultural services

• provisioning services

• regulating services

• supporting services

​Ecosystem Services

​The benefits experienced by organisms which are provided by healthy ecosystems.

There are 4 main types of services:

1 supporting services 3 regulating services

2 provisioning services 4 cultural services

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Multiple Choice

The water cycle is an example of this Ecosystem service

• Regulatory

• supporting

• Provisional

• Cultural

Multiple Choice

When a spruce tree is harvested so the wood can be used to build a house, the tree is providing

• Regulatory

• supporting

• Provisioning

• Cultural

Multiple Choice

Natural processes such as nutrient cycling and the creation of soils are all examples of what type of ecosystem service?

• Regulatory

• supporting

• Provisional

• Cultural

Ecosystem Services

Ecosystem services are the multitude of benefits that nature provides to society.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would be an example of a regulating service?

• Nutrient cycling

• Photosynthesis

• Drinking water from a creek

• Bees pollinating flowers

Multiple Choice

Bacteria decomposing waste is an example of what type of ecosystem service?

• economic

• regulating

• provisioning

• supporting

Multiple Choice

Goods taken directly from ecosystems or made from their natural resources

• provisioning services

• regulating services

• cultural services

• supporting services

Multiple Choice

Food, medicine, and water are examples of which ecosystem service?

• Regulating

• Provisioning

• Cultural

• Supporting