Biodiversity

What does the root "bio" mean...

• living

• nonliving

• toxic

• variety

What does the root "diversity" mean...

• living

• nonliving

• toxic

• variety

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High biodiversity is 

• having a lot of the same organism.
• having a few of the same organism.
• having a lot of variety of different organisms.
• only having one of each organism. 

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

• One with High biodiversity

• One with Low biodiversity

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Which shows more biodiversity Image A or Image B. Why?

• Image B is more biodiverse, because shows more different species than image A.

• Image A is more biodiverse, because shows a greater number of organisms that image B

• Both images show the same biodiversity

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In this food web example you can see that rain forests have many producers consumer and predators. How would you describe the rain forest biome?

• It has high biodiversity

• It has low biodiversity.

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Which habitat exhibits the greatest biodiversity?

• A habitat with 15 different species with about 300 individuals each
• A habitat with 10 different species with about 75 individuals each
• A habitat with 4 different species with about 150 individuals each
• A habitat with only one species with about 2000 individual

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Define genetic diversity

• a variety of genes and traits within a species

• a variety of ecosystems in a given area

• system made up of all the living and nonliving things in a given area

• a variety of species in an ecosystem

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Which statement best describes an example of high biodiversity?

• A pond ecosystem is populated by a single species of frogs

• A state park that includes multiple forest and freshwater ecosystems with many different species of fish, birds and frogs in a variety of colors

• A desert ecosystem is populated by organ pipe cacti, camels, and armadillo lizards

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The level of biodiversity that involves a variety of habitats is _____ diversity.

• ecosystem

• population

• genetic

• species

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