Ecosystem Services

Which of the following is NOT an ecosystem service?

• Provisioning Services

• Cultural Services

• Regulating Services

• Economic Services

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Fruits, fish, and livestock are examples of which ecosystem service?

• Regulating

• Provisioning

• Cultural

• Supporting

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which of the following would be a supporting service?

• Oxygen production

• Wild plants that serve medical purposes

• Tourism

• Fungi decomposing dead plants and animals

The service provided by natural systems that moderate and helps stabilize environmental conditions such as climate and air/water quality.

• cultural services

• supporting services

• regulating services

• provisioning services

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The services ecosystems provide that create and replenish the foundation of biological systems, making processes we do ourselves (such as recycling water, and producing oxygen) more efficient.

• cultural services

• provisioning services

• regulating services

• supporting services

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Parks, camping, and tours

• cultural services

• provisioning services

• regulating services

• supporting services

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Food, medicine, and water are examples of which ecosystem service?

• Regulating

• Provisioning

• Cultural

• Supporting

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Changes in biodiversity can influence ecosystem services.

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

True or False: a healthy environment is one with high biodiversity.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Choose all the reasons why biodiversity is beneficial to humans and the ecosystem (4).

• Provides resources like lumber and medicine

• Decreases survival after an environmental stressor

• Decreases pollution

• Creates natural pest control and pollinators

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