Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Fruits, fish, and livestock are examples of which ecosystem service?

• Regulating

• Provisioning

• Cultural

• Supporting

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The service provided by natural systems that moderate and helps stabilize environmental conditions such as climate and air/water quality.

• cultural services

• supporting services

• regulating services

• provisioning services

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Which of the following would be a supporting service?

• Oxygen production

• Wild plants that serve medical purposes

• Tourism

• Fungi decomposing dead plants and animals

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Food, medicine, and water are examples of which ecosystem service?

• Regulating

• Provisioning

• Cultural

• Supporting

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True or False: a healthy environment is one with high biodiversity.

• True

• False

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Which community has higher biodiversity?

• Community 1 (top)

• Community 2 (bottom)

• They have equal biodiversity

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True or False: a community with 2 types of birds has more biodiversity than a community with 5 types of birds.

• True

• False

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 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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____________ is the variety of living things in the world.