Ecosystem Services
Authored by Julie Kluss
Science
6th - 8th Grade
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This quiz focuses on ecosystem services within the broader topic of environmental science and ecology, targeting middle school students at the 6th to 8th grade level. The questions assess students' understanding of the fundamental concept that ecosystems provide valuable benefits to humans, along with the four main categories of ecosystem services: provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting services. Students need to grasp the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function, recognize that healthy ecosystems deliver essential services that humans depend upon, and classify specific examples of benefits into the correct service categories. The content requires students to move beyond basic ecological vocabulary to understand the interconnected nature of human society and natural systems, demonstrating higher-order thinking skills as they analyze real-world examples and categorize them appropriately. Created by Julie Kluss, a Science teacher in US who teaches grade 6-8. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for introducing students to the critical concept of ecosystem services and can be effectively used as a formative assessment to gauge student understanding before moving into more complex environmental topics. Teachers can deploy this quiz as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge, assign it as homework to reinforce classroom instruction, or use it as a review tool before summative assessments. The question format makes it particularly valuable for identifying misconceptions about how humans benefit from natural systems and helps students develop the scientific vocabulary necessary for discussing environmental issues. This assessment aligns with Next Generation Science Standards MS-LS2-1 (analyzing and interpreting data on the impacts of resource availability on organisms and populations) and MS-ESS3-3 (applying scientific principles to design methods for monitoring and minimizing human impact on the environment), as it builds the foundational understanding students need to analyze human-environment interactions.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
As biodiversity increases,
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS2-5
NGSS.MS-LS2-4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What term describes the positive benefits that wildlife or ecosystems provides to people?
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS2-5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
All of the raw materials that are extracted from an ecosystem are called
provisioning services
regulating services
cultural services
supporting services
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS2-3
NGSS.MS-LS2-1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The benefits that we receive from the processes that keep an ecosystem functioning are called
provisioning services
regulating services
cultural services
supporting services
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS2-5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The non-material services that enhance the spiritual, intellectual, and social development of humans are called
supporting services
cultural services
provisioning services
regulating services
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The services that help all other ecosystem services to fully function (habitats and biodiversity)
supporting services
cultural services
provisioning services
regulating services
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS2-5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Carbon and oxygen cycles, genetic and species diversity would be included in the area of
cultural services
supporting services
provisioning services
regulating services
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS2-5
NGSS.MS-LS2-3
NGSS.MS-LS4-4
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