Ecosystem Services

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

• ecosystem services
• ecosystem
• biodiversity

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In some areas, farmer's rotate the order of crops planted in fields each year.  Why?

• to maintain nitrogen levels in soil
• to prevent erosion

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

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

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Why are wetlands important to maintaining biodiversity?

• water filtration
• flood prevention
• habitat preservation
• all of the above!

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Which of the following is NOT and ecosystem service?

• Provisioning Services

• Regulating Services

• Cultural Services

• Economic Services

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Ecosystem services can be direct or indirect- large or small.

• True

• False

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Which of the following would be an example of a regulating service?

• Nutrient cycling

• Photosynthesis

• Drinking water from a creek

• Bees pollinating flowers

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What does every food chain start with? (Even if it's not drawn or written there!)

• producers
• sun
• consumer
• decomposers

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An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

• Autotroph
• Producer
• Consumer
• Mutualist

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Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

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