Topic 12 Biodiversity Review

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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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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Which of the following forms of biodiversity describes all of the different livable spaces in an ecosystem?

• Species

• Habitat

• Genetic

• None of the Above

Which do you think has a higher species diversity biodiversity, a food chain or a food web?

• Food Chain

• Food Web

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When there is higher biodiversity

• more organisms are likely to die because they can't adapt to environmental changes.
• there is less diversity.
• there is more diversity and higher sustainability of life.
• there is more diversity and lower sustainability of life

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High biodiversity is 

• having a lot of the same organism.
• having a few of the same organism.
• having a lot of variety of different organisms.
• only having one of each organism. 

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