Living Environment Relationships and Biodiversity Lab

Why is "A" less biodiverse than "B"?

• Image "A" is more biodiverse.

• Image "A" has many corn plants and this makes it have high "rich" biodiversity.

• Image "A" has a lot more plants than image "B"

• Even though "A" has a lot of corn plants they are all the same species and makes this a low "poor" biodiverse area.

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Which ecosystem is more likely to survive a change in the environment?

• One with High biodiversity

• One with Low biodiversity

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What does the root "bio" mean...

• living

• nonliving

• toxic

• variety

____________ is the variety of living things in the world.

How do biodiversity and stability work together?

• The lower the biodiversity the greater the stability of an ecosystem.

• The higher the biodiversity, the less stable the ecosystem

• The higher the biodiversity, the greater the stability of the ecosystem.

• Biodiversity has nothing to do with ecosystem stability.

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High biodiversity is 

• having a lot of the same organism.

• having a few of the same organism.

• having a lot of variety of different organisms.

• only having one of each organism. 

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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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Which statement best describes an example of high biodiversity?

• A pond ecosystem is populated by a single species of frogs

• A state park that includes multiple forest and freshwater ecosystems with many different species of fish, birds and frogs in a variety of colors

• A desert ecosystem is populated by organ pipe cacti, camels, and armadillo lizards

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The level of biodiversity that involves a variety of habitats is _____ diversity.

• ecosystem

• population

• genetic

• species

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Why is biodiversity important to ecosystems?

• It helps populations adapt to ecological changes.

• It increases at each level of the food chain.

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