Conservation and Biodiversity

Programs that breed animals in captivity then release them to the wild are called...

• Kidnapping
• Breeding Buildings
• Captive Breeding Programs
• Catch and Release Programs

If a species is only found in one place on Earth we call it a(n)...

• Local species
• Lonesome species
• Allopatric species
• Endemic species

Biologists put extra effort into protecting these because they have many species living in them.

• Cities
• Biodiversity Hotspots
• Farms
• Conservation stations

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The excessive use of a species that has economic value.

• Biodiversity
• Natural resources
• Overexploitation
• population growth

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The species that plays the biggest role in the habitat is?

• Smaller species
• Larger species 
• Keystone Species
• Evolving species 

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

An event  in which a large percentage of all living species become extinct in a relatively short period of time.

• Habitat fragmentation 
• Mass extinction
• Overexploitation
• Background extinction

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The excessive use of a species that has economic value

• Overexploitation
• Habitat fragmentation
• Habitat loss
• Evolving species

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

A declining population of one species can affect an entire what???

• Edge effect
• Habitat
• Ecosystem 
• Community 

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The diagram shows fossils in different rock layers. Which of these statements about the age of these fossils is most likely correct?

• Fossil A and C are the same age
  
• Fossil B is older than fossil C
• Fossils A is older than fossil B
• Fossil D is older than fossil C

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Charles Darwin’s observation that finches of different species on the Galápagos Islands have many similar physical characteristics supports the hypothesis that these finches 
 

• have the ability to interbreed.
  have the ability to interbreed.
• acquired traits through use and disuse.
• all eat the same type of food.
• descended from a common ancestor.

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