BIO - Biodiversity

What is the name for the process when the last member of a species dies?

• hibernation

• extinction

• biodiversity

• species diversity

As a species becomes this, the variety of species in the biosphere decreases, which decreases the health of the biosphere.

This is the variety of life in an area that is determined by the number of different species in that area.

• biodiversity

• biosphere

• ecosystem

• species diversity

Biodiversity increases the stability of this.

• ecosystem

• biosphere

• genetic engineering

• species diversity

Biodiversity contributes to the health of this.

• ecosystem

• diversity

• biosphere

• ecosystem diversity

Term for the variety of genes or inheritable characteristics that are present in a population.

• ecosystem diversity

• genetic diversity

• species diversity

• biospheric diversity

 This, within interbreeding populations increases the chances that some individuals will survive during changing environmental conditions or during an outbreak of disease.

• genetic diversity

• biodiversity

• ecosystem diversity

• genetic engineering

Term for the number of different species and the relative abundance of each species in a biological community.

• species diversity

• ecosystem diversity

• biodiversity

• genetic diversity

Term for the variety of ecosystems present in the biosphere.

• ecosystem diversity

• genetic diversity

• biodiversity

• genetic engineering

This is made up of interacting populations and the abiotic factors that support them.

• ecosystem

• biosphere

• watersheds

• human disease