Environmental Science - Ecosystem Services

Ecosystem services are ...

• ways that ecosystems provide benefits directly to animals

• services that humans provide to benefit ecosystems

• ways that ecosystems provide benefits directly to humans

• services humans use to destroy nature

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Four types of ecosystem services

• Provisioning

  Cultural

  Regulating & Supporting

• Personal, mechanical, chemical, and natural

• Animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria

• Medical, scientific, artificial, natural

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Photosynthesis, water cycle, nutrient cycling, habitat formation, soil formation and services that promote life on Earth are examples of ?

• Provisioning services

• Cultural services

• Regulating services

• Supporting services

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Pollination, decomposition, seed dispersal, and water purification are examples of ?

• Provisioning services

• Cultural services

• Regulating services

• Supporting services

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Food, fuels, fibers, drinking water, and medicines are examples of ?

• Provisioning services

• Cultural services

• Regulating services

• Supporting services

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Erosion and flood control, carbon storage, and climate regulation

are examples of ?

• Provisioning services

• Cultural services

• Regulating services

• Supporting services

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

These services are any type of material or physical product that can be extracted (taken) from nature

• Provisioning services

• Cultural services

• Regulating services

• Supporting services

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These services help natural processes and indirectly help humans

• Provisioning services

• Cultural services

• Regulating services

• Sanitation services

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Ecotourism, recreation, creativity (music, art), spiritual connection, are examples of ?

• Provisioning services

• Cultural services

• Regulating services

• Supporting services