Short and Long Term

Why is short-term environmental change more likely to negatively affect a population than a long-term change?

• Animals do not have time to adapt

• Animals always die

• Animals always move away and leave the ecosystem with less biodiversity

• All of the answer choices

How are future populations affected by long-term environmental change?

• Future populations inherit feeding patterns

• Future populations pass on fewer inherited traits

• Future populations with inherited traits suffer from disease and malnutrition

• Future populations inherit traits that allow for survival in the new environment

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Four students categorized several environmental changes as short-term or long-term changes. Which chart correctly categorizes short- and long-term change?

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Plate movement separated species of organisms. This isolation lead to -

• species developing different traits to allow survival in different environments

• species acquiring learned behaviors due to the separation

• species developing similar traits to allow survival in different environments

• species inheriting different traits that caused extinction due to the separation

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Permanent change to an ecosystem

• Short Term

• Long Term

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Can cause extinction

• Short Term

• Long Term

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Has an immediate impact!

• Short Term

• Long Term

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Global Warming

• Short Term

• Long Term

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Natural Disasters such as, earthquakes, flooding, and volcanic eruptions can cause ...

• short term changes

• long term changes

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What is the primary difference between short-term and long-term environmental changes?

• Short-term changes occur quickly and have immediate effects, while long-term changes develop gradually and have lasting impacts.

• Short-term changes are always beneficial, while long-term changes are always harmful.

• Short-term changes affect only animals, while long-term changes affect only plants.

• Short-term changes are reversible, while long-term changes are permanent.