Biodiversity

What does biodiversity mean?

• Only one species in an area.

• The different amount of species in an area

• All abiotic life

• Nitrogen fixation

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Biodiversity is the variety of ________ in a community.

• genes

• population

• species

• community

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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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What is Species diversity?..?...

• the number or variety of species in the word or in a particular region 

• The range of genetic material present in a gene pool or population of a species.

• The variety of ecosystems that are present in the biosphere.

• A species whose numbers are so small that the species is at risk of extinction.

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How can humans best help an endangered species avoid extinction?

• they can feed the animals

• they can put the animals in a zoo

• they can protect the animal’s habitat

• they can take the animal to new habitats

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What factor does NOT affect biodiversity?

• Urbanization

• Planting Native Plants

• Overfishing

• Pollution

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A plant nursery only grew one type of tomato. All of their tomatoes died from the same disease. What was most likely true of the tomato plant population?

• It had too little biodiversity

• It had a lot of resistance to disease

• It had a few plants that were resistant to disease

• It had too much genetic variation

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Which of the following is NOT a type of  biodiversity?

• species

• genetic

• ecosystem

• individual

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 of the following is NOT related to biodiversity?

• species diversity 

• genetic diversity 

• climate diversity 

• ecosystem diversity 

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