Habitat Destruction

The area where a plant or animal lives

• environment

• location

• habitat

• home

What will help prevent unnecessary habitat destruction?

• Spreading out farms and urban developments

• Finding a balance between what humans and animals need

• Decreasing animal populations

• Decreasing plant populations

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Breaking up large areas of habitat into smaller pieces is called...

• Destruction

• Conservation

• Logging

• Fragmentation

A species that is not supposed to be in an ecosystem (non-native) and has no competition

• invasive species

• fossil fuels

• direct harvesting

• indicator species

Fragmentation of habitat causes problems because (check all that apply)...

• It reduces the amount of food that may be available

• It reduces the number of mates available

• It keeps predators out of the habitat

• It increases how much land is available

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When a habitat is destroyed, ____ (check all that are true)

• Only organisms that can adapt quickly will survive

• Only organisms that can move out of the area quickly will survive.

• No plants or animals will survive.

• Most plants will survive because their seeds are still in the ground.

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A good example of the fragmentation of habitat would be _____.

• Cutting down a forest to build a housing development.

• Draining a swamp to develop the land.

• Building a road through the woods.

• Polluting the James River

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Degradation of habitat is much easier to see than destruction or fragmentation.

• true

• false

Reducing the quality of habitat through pollution or invasive species is called ___________.

• degradation

• destruction

• fragmentation

• mitigation

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What is it called when developers have to create or set aside land elsewhere for plants and animals to offset the destruction to habitat?

• degradation

• destruction

• fragmentation

• mitigation

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