Ecosystem Services

What term describes the positive benefits that wildlife or ecosystems provides to people?

• ecosystem services
• ecosystem
• biodiversity

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which of the following is an example of an ecosystem service?

• water filtration
• food 
• oxygen
• they all are!

Why are wetlands important to maintaining biodiversity?

• water filtration
• flood prevention
• habitat preservation
• all of the above!

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which of the following is NOT and ecosystem service?

• Provisioning Services

• Regulating Services

• Cultural Services

• Economic Services

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Ecosystem services can be direct or indirect- large or small.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Fruits, fish, and livestock are all examples of what type of ecosystem service?

• Economic

• Provisioning

• Regulating

• Cultural

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Music, art, and architecture born from interactions with nature are all examples of what type of ecosystem service?

• Provisioning

• Regulating

• Cultural

• Supporting

Natural processes such as nutrient cycling and the creation of soils are all examples of what type of ecosystem service?

• Provisioning

• Regulating

• Cultural

• Supporting

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which of the following would be an example of a supporting service?

• Nutrient cycling

• Photosynthesis

• Drinking water from a creek

• Bees pollinating flowers

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Buffering natural disasters is a feature of what type of ecosystem service?

• economic

• regulating

• provisioning

• supporting

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5