IS8 - Unit 8 Test

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. In which location would you expect to find greater species diversity?

• Canada

• Costa Rica

• Mexico

• United States

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which term best describes this collection of locations: a forest, a freshwater lake, an estuary, and a prairie?

• ecosystem diversity

• extinction

• genetic diversity

• species diversity

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which group listed in the table above has the greatest percentage of extinctions?

• birds

• fish

• mammals

• reptiles

Which habitat has the greatest impact due to edge effects?

• A

• B

• A and B equally

• neither A nor B

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which is not a way in which species lose their habitat?

• population

• destruction

• disruption

• pollution

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Which is an advantage of the habitat corridor shown above?

• Corridors increase the edge effect in the area.

• Diseases are passed easily from one area to another.

• Parasites are passed easily from one area to another.

• Members of species can move safely from one area to another.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Use the graph titled "Recovery Time for Disasters" to answer this question: Which human-caused disaster requires the greatest recovery time?

• groundwater exploitation

• industrial pollution

• nuclear bomb

• oil spill

Use the graph below to answer the question: What percentage of the United States energy consumption in 2002 were nonrenewable resources?

• 8.3

• 22.7

• 39.3

• 93.9

Species diversity is the number of different species and the relative abundance of each species in a biological community.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

An event in which a large percentage of all living species become extinct in a relatively short period of time is called

• Mass extinction

• Natural selection

• Biological evolution

• Genetic drift

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5