Biodiversity and Environmental Change

What is an example of how organisms respond to short term changes in the environment?

• Animals tend to eat a lot more.

• Animals will hibernate.

• Animals must be able to adapt to a new environment.

• Animals will go extinct or die due to the short term change.

What two environmental changes can be found in this image?

• pollution and climate change

• climate change and urbanization

• deforestation and pollution

• urbanization and deforestation

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An _______________ is made up of the living and nonliving things in an environment that work together for a purpose.

• habitat

• biotic

• ecosystem

• economy

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Which of the following will have the longest term impact on organisms in an ecosystem?

• flooding

• oil spill

• blizzard

• global warming

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environmental change is described as

• breeding of organisms

• a disturbance in the environment

• changes in genetic material

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The sum of the different forms of living things in a given area or population

• Ecosystem

• Deforestation

• Biodiversity

• Overexploitation

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Removal of a forest or stand of trees, which are then used for nonforest purposes

• Reuse

• Deforestation

• Pollution

• Overpopulation

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Everything that surrounds a system

• Environment

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Recycle

An alien (non-native to the ecosystem) species, usually brought to an area by humans, that competes for resources and causes problems for the native species within an ecosystem

• Environment

• Ecosystem

• Invasive Species

• Population

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Changes in the environment induced by human activity—including habitat destruction, pollution, introduction of invasive species, overexploitation, and climate change—which can disrupt an ecosystem and threaten the survival of some species

• Climate Change

• Anthropogenic Changes

• Biodiversity

• Overexploitation

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