Saving Species & Ecosystem Services

After reading 'A Focus on Saving Honeybees', how would disturbing the bees affect Varma's intent?

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

How many mass extinctions have occurred on Earth?

• Two

• Three

• Four

• Five

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Why are extinction rates increasing?

• Human activities.

• Some species are more vulnerable to extinction.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

How does a species become extinct?

• Catastrophic natural event kills all of the organisms.

• Unable to adapt to changing environmental conditions.

• Unable to successfully reproduce in changing environmental conditions.

• All of these.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Occurs when a large, intact area of habitat is divided into smaller, isolated patches.

• Bioaccumulation

• Biomagnification

• Habitat fragmentation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The increase in concentration of a chemical in an organisms tissues.

• Bioaccumulation

• Bioprospecting

Species that has so few individual survivors that the species could soon become extinct.

• Vulnerable species

• Threatened species

• Endangered species

International Treaty that bans hunting, capturing, and selling of threatened on endangered species and products made from such species.

• Endangered Species Act

• Convention on Biological Diversity

• CITES

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-LS4-5