Biodiversity and Ecosystem Resilience

The variety of life in an ecosystem.

• Ecology

• Environment

• Biodiversity

• Ecosystem Resilience

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The ability of an ecosystem to recover quickly and resist damage after disasters

• Ecology

• Environmental Science

• Biodiversity

• Ecosystem Resilience

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Mice eat seeds, small fruits and berries, beetles, caterpillars, grasshoppers, leafhoppers, and an underground fungus. What happens if all the grasshoppers die?

• The mice die because of a food source being removed

• The mice survive due to biodiversity

• The beetles and caterpillars increase in population

• The beetles and caterpillars decrease in population

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Koalas eat eucalyptus. What happens if all the eucalyptus dies?

• The koalas die due to lack of food

• The koalas adapt to eat other organisms

• The eucalyptus finds a way to regrow

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Earth’s natural movements as it revolves around its axis

• Carbon Cycles

• El Nino

• Revolutions

• Milankovich Cycles

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Milankovich Cycles have an effect on

• Daily Weather patterns

• As the Earth goes in and out of glacial events

• Global Warming cycles

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Milankovich cycles have a natural effect on what

• The Climate

• Global Warming

• Oxygen levels

• The tilt of the Earth

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Shape of the orbit (rounder like a ball or flatter like a frisbee)

• Wobble

• Eccentricity

• Tilt

• Revolutions

wobble (like a spinning top)

• Tilt

• Eccentricity

• Precession

• Revolution

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The way that Earth’s axis leans

• Eccentricity

• Precession

• Tilt

• Rotation