Unit 2 Quiz Review

This is a measurement of the rate in which energy can be consumed within an ecosystem resulting in a growth in biomass.

• Plant Biomass

• Biological Productivity

• Dead Plant Material

• Carbon Storage

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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Provides the fuel for specialized wetland microbes to perform denitrification

• Biological Uptake

• Carbon Storage

• Physical Trapping

• Dead Plant Material

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The amount of carbon wetland plants remove from the atmosphere through photosynthesis is called?

• Chemical Processes

• Biological Uptake

• Nutrient Cycling

• Carbon Storage

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Physical Trapping - Involves wetland vegetation _________ _________ which allows sediment and other particulate material to settle on the floor of the wetland

• Dead Zone

• Slowing water

• Algae Blooms

• Sequester carbon

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Excess nitrogen is responsible for coastal algae blooms and the _______ _______ in the Gulf of Mexico

• Dead Zone

• slowing water

• physical trapping

• sequester carbon

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Habitat Provisions for wetlands include: (2 answers)

• food web support

• phosphorus

• biodiversity support

• pharmaceuticals

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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Which of the following are the two types of government programs which are designed to stop or reduce wetland loss?

• Regulatory and incentivizing

• Incentivizing and privatized

• Regulatory and privatized

• Privatized and incentivizing

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Wetland mitigation can be purchased if wetland losses cannot be avoided or minimized under state or federal (Clean Water Act) regulations.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

Select the following programs the Farm Bill created? (2 answers)

• Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program

• Universal Conservation Partnership Program

• Wetland Conservation Protection Program

• Environmental Quality Incentives Program

In-lieu fee mitigation programs collect and pool payments for offsetting wetland impacts after the impact occurs.

• True

• Flase

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

NGSS.HS-LS2-7