Global Change

Biodiversity is

• The variety of life in an ecosystem

• The lack of variety

• all of one species

• many different populations

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population is

• not an important part of biodiversity

• variety of life

• all of one species living in a given area

• many different species living in a given area

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native species

• organisms that do not belong in an ecosystem

• organisms that belong in a given ecosystem

• the same as invasive species

• nonessential

invasive species

• the same as nonnative species

• belong in an ecosystem

• do not harm biodiversity

• are always beneficial

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climate change has _______ biodiversity

• positively affected

• not affected

• increased

• decreased

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Biodiversity can be negatively impacted by all of the following human events except

• burning fossil fuels

• leaving an ecosystem in its natural state, uninterrupted

• building roadways and housing

• clear cutting of trees for agriculture

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How might an invasive species impact an ecosystem?

• invasive species could cause a change in global temperature

• invasive species might improve an ecosystem by strengthening the food web

• it wouldn't cause a change to the ecosystem

• it might eat the food that native species consume, interrupting the flow of energy in a food web

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Which is not an extreme weather condition?

• volcanoes

• hurricanes

• longer and colder winters

• longer and hotter heat waves

Increased burning of fossil fuels has changed the overal climate causing

• tsunamis

• earthquakes

• extreme weather conditions

• volcanic erruptions

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weather is

• not impacted by climate change

• not an important factor in ecosystems

• the year to year fluctuations in temperature and precipitation

• the daily temperature and precipitation

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