Biodiversity Review

How are biodiversity and sustainability related?

• A greater amount of species means ecosystems are more likely to survive changes

• The fewer the species, the greater chance an ecosystem has of surviving

• The greater the biodiversity, the fewer links in the food web to support the ecosystem

• Ecosystems can maintain sustainability without a lot of biodiversity.

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What contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem?

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When climactic and environmental changes occur, biodiversity...

• leads to less variety among the species in the ecosystem

• is harmful to the ecosystem because not all animals have appropriate adaptations

• helps the ecosystem support the maximum number of species

• causes a decrease in the number of species over time

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As the human population increases, the area of a rainforest decreases. This leads to....

• decreased deforestation

• increased biodiversity

• increased sustainability

• decreased biodiversity

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Which ecosystem has the greatest amount of biodiversity?

• Grassland

• Desert

• Rainforest

• Tundra

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If an area has high sustainability, it most likely has...

• only one kind of producer

• a large amount of natural disasters

• a declining insect population

• a wide variety of organisms

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A forest is cut down to create an agricultural farmland. This will lead to...

• decreased sustainability

• increased biodiversity

• increased sustainability

• decreased human activity

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All of the following increase biodiversity EXCEPT...

• restoring habitats of native species in an ecosystem

• removing a species from an ecosystem

• planting a variety of plants in a garden

• protecting species in an ecosystem

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What is the effect of the removal of a species from the ecosystem?

• decreased sustainability

• increased stability

• increased biodiversity

• decreased rainfall

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As biodiversity increases, sustainability __________.

• increases

• decreases

• remains the same

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