Biodiversity and Sustainability

What does biodiversity mean?

• Only one species in an area.
• The different amount of species in an area
• All abiotic life
• Nitrogen fixation

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 Which biome is more likely to survive a change in the environment?

• High (rich) biodiversity
• Low (poor) biodiversity

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When an ecosystem is more diverse it has more sustainability.

• False
• True

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What is sustainability?

• the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
• a bunch of animals
• a loss
• a win

Does this picture have sustainability?

• Yes
• No

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Does this have high or low biodiversity?

• High

• Low

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If biodiversity is high then sustainability is ____?

• High
• Low

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If biodiversity is low then sustainability is ____?

• High
• Low

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A farmer digs a small pond in a pasture. The farmer adds young individuals from two species of algae-eating fish to the pond and plants some reeds around the edge of the pond. The farmer wants the pond to be a sustainable ecosystem.

Which of the following would be most helpful in increasing the pond ecosystem’s sustainability?

• Decreasing the number of pond species around the edges of the pond

• Introducing older fish of the same species into the population of algae-eating fish

• Having a greater diversity of living organisms in the pond

• Adding water between the water and where the reeds are planted

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What does biodiversity indicate about an ecosystem?

• the location of the ecosystem

• the overall size of the ecosystem

• the ability of the ecosystem to survive change

• the identity of the organisms that began ecological succession in the ecosystem

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