Benefits of Biodiversity

Define biodiversity

• variety of life in Earth's land, freshwater, and marine ecosystems

• variety of ecosystems in a given area

• the number of different species in a given area and the number of individuals of each species that are present

• the variation of genes within a species or population in a given area

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Define genetic diversity

• variation of genes within a species or population in a given area

• variety of ecosystems in a given area

• system made up of all the living and nonliving things in a given area

• disturbance in the environment conditions that cause genetic changes to occur in organisms

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Define ecosystem diversity

• variety of ecosystems in a given area

• variation of genes within a species or population in a given area

• variety of life in Earth's land, freshwater, and marine ecosystems

• changes to an ecosystem that affect how the parts of it interact

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Define species diversity

• both the number of different species and individuals of each species in a given area

• variation of genes within a species or population in a given area

• variety of ecosystems that are in a given area

• changes in an ecosystem that affect of the organisms interact with one another

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Define ecosystem stability

• a healthy ecosystem with factors that stay mostly stable

• a healthy ecosystem with factors that fluctuate between great and terrible

• an unhealthy ecosystem with factors that stay mostly stable

• an unhealthy ecosystem with factors that fluctuate between great and terrible

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Which statement best describes an example of low species diversity?

• A population of frogs has a wide variety of skin colors

• A marsh ecosystem is covered by a single species of cattail bulrushes

• A state park includes multiple forest, wetland, and freshwater ecosystems

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Which statement best describes an example of high species diversity?

• A pond ecosystem is populated by a single species of frogs

• A state park includes multiple forest and freshwater ecosystems with many different species of fish, frogs, and birds

• A desert ecosystem is populated only by organ pipe cacti, camels, and armadillo lizards

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What can biodiversity influence within an ecosystem?

• how well the ecosystem recovers from a disturbance

• how well the ecosystem grows after rain

• how poorly the ecosystem responds to a drought

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The benefits humans receive from ecosystems.

• ecosystems services

• ecological restoration

• sustainability

• biodiversity

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What would be the best way to measure the migration of whales?

• transect sampling

• mist netting

• quadrat sampling

• aerial photos