Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity

What term describes the variety of different organisms found in an ecosystem?

• population
• biodiversity
• ecosystem services

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What term describes the positive benefits that wildlife or ecosystems provides to people?

• ecosystem services
• ecosystem
• biodiversity

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which of the following is an example of an ecosystem service?

• water filtration
• food 
• oxygen
• they all are!

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which of the following is NOT and ecosystem service?

• Provisioning Services

• Regulating Services

• Cultural Services

• Economic Services

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Fruits, fish, and livestock are all examples of what type of ecosystem service?

• Economic

• Provisioning

• Regulating

• Cultural

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

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

• Provisioning

• Regulating

• Cultural

• Supporting

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

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

• Provisioning

• Regulating

• Cultural

• Supporting

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

If the biodiversity in an ecosystem is high, the ecosystem is more sustainable.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

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

• a cultural service.

• a provision.

• an intrinsic value.

• a monetary unit.

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

Bees are important to ecosystems and humans because they provide

• a regulating service through the pollination of crops.

• a regulating service that increases crop yields.

• a support system through the pollination of food crops.

• a support system through promoting biodiversity of crops.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5