Short-term Long-term Environmental Changes

What is an example of how organisms respond to short term changes in the environment?

• Animals tend to eat a lot more.

• Animals will hibernate.

• Animals must be able to adapt to a new environment.

• Animals will go extinct or die due to the short term change.

Natural Disasters such as, earthquakes, flooding, and volcanic eruptions can cause ...

• short term changes

• long term changes

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The environmental impact of mining includes erosion, loss of biodiversity,contamination of soil and water

• This is a short term impact.
• This is a long term impact.

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The transition from fall to winter could be considered an environmental change. Which kind of change is winter?

• short-term, because it lasts less than a year

• long-term, because it lasts more than a year

• long-term, because it lasts more than a year

• long-term, because it does not cause changes to the DNA of a species

An environmental change is occurring due to continents shifting and moving to different parts of Earth’s surface. What kind of change is this?

• a short-term change due to tectonic plate movement

• a long-term change due to tectonic plate movement

• a short-term change due to increasing levels of solar energy

• a long-term change due to increasing levels of solar energy

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A living or once-living organisms in an ecosystem is a

• population
• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• community

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The first organisms to reappear after an ecosystem is damaged.

• Abiotic Community

• Pioneer species

• Succession

• Biomass

The progression of life in an area that starts with bare rock or sand but no soil. Example: a volcanic island.

• Climax Community

• Pioneer Species

• Secondary Succession

• Primary Succession

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The picture shows what type of succession?

• primary
• secondary
• tertiary
• quadanary

A dichotomous key for insects is given. To what order does an insect with two pairs of scaly wings belong?

• Coleoptera
• Heteroptera
• Diptera
• Lepidoptera