BIODIVERSITY QUIZ

What do you call a discrete group of organisms of the same kind?

• Column

• Community

• Genes

• Species

What is the significance of species diversity?

• Species never interact with the environment.

• Species interact with their environment and thus perform certain functions.

• Though species interact with the environment they DO NOT perform any functions.

• Species minimize interaction with their environment and thus perform certain functions.

What is the definition of biodiversity?

• the study of biology in the jungles

• the study of biology in a university

• biochemicals in the field of science

• the variety of species in the environment

Which ecosystem is richest in biodiversity?

• Desert

• temperate forest

• temperate grassland

• tropical rainforest

Which is NOT a potential threat or danger to biodiversity?

• exotic species

• gene pool diversity

• habitat destruction

• pollution

What are two human actions that adversely affect life and biodiversity?

• deforestation and pollution

• farming and working in the factories

• raising animals on farms and eating them

• weather and natural disasters

A certain town reached the maximum number of squirrels that its environment can sustain. What is that number called?

• carrying capacity

• environmental capacity

• exponential growth

• birth rate

What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

• Less than 500

• Around 500

• More than 500

• Around 600

In December 2004, a tsunami destroyed many of the marine organisms along the coast of the Indian Ocean. What can be expected to happen to the ecosystem that was severely hit by the tsunami?

• The organisms in the ecosystem will become extinct.

• Ecological succession will no longer occur in this marine ecosystem.

• The ecosystem will change until a new stable community is established.

• Succession will continue in the ecosystem until one species of marine organism is established.

What is a mass extinction?

• benefit to the environment

• disappearance of many species

• rapid increase in biodiversity

• result of an exotic species