Ecosystem Resiliency Review

Which category in the graph is closest to extinction?

• Critically Endangered

• Endangered

• Vulnerable

• Near Threatened

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What should the label for the Y-axis be?

• Number of Extinctions

• Percent of Species

• Number of Species

• Categories of Species

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which of the following are causes of extinction?

• Habitat Destruction

• Pollution

• Growing Biodiversity

• Poaching

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The most threatened animals are

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

The location of the least threatened species is

What is a keystone species?

• Species that is about to become extinct and needs to be saved.

• Species in a food web that affects all the others.

• Producers that every species in a food web eats.

• Top carnivore with the highest trophic level.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What would increase if the zooplankton died?

• Kelp Bass

• Phytoplankton

• Rockfish

• Otter

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What organism in the food web would DECREASE as a SECONDARY EFFECT of Otter extinction?

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What was the first thing to happen after wolves returned to Yellowstone?

• The attacked and killed deer.

• The deer avoided rivers and valleys more.

• Trees and vegetation increased.

• The roots prevented erosion and the rivers changed how they flowed.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What was the second thing to happen after wolves returned to Yellowstone?

• The attacked and killed deer.

• The deer avoided rivers and valleys more.

• Trees and vegetation increased.

• The roots prevented erosion and the rivers changed how they flowed.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-2