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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Resilience

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 1hrs 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The variety of life in an ecosystem.

a)

Ecology

b)

Environment

c)

Biodiversity

d)

Ecosystem Resilience

2.

The ability of an ecosystem to recover quickly and resist damage after disasters

a)

Ecology

b)

Environmental Science

c)

Biodiversity

d)

Ecosystem Resilience

3.

Mice eat seeds, small fruits and berries, beetles, caterpillars, grasshoppers, leafhoppers, and an underground fungus. What happens if all the grasshoppers die?

a)

The mice die because of a food source being removed

b)

The mice survive due to biodiversity

c)

The beetles and caterpillars increase in population

d)

The beetles and caterpillars decrease in population

4.

Koalas eat eucalyptus. What happens if all the eucalyptus dies?

a)

The koalas die due to lack of food

b)

The koalas adapt to eat other organisms

c)

The eucalyptus finds a way to regrow

5.

Earth’s natural movements as it revolves around its axis

a)

Carbon Cycles

b)

El Nino

c)

Revolutions

d)

Milankovich Cycles

6.

Milankovich Cycles have an effect on

a)

Daily Weather patterns

b)

As the Earth goes in and out of glacial events

c)

Global Warming cycles

7.

Milankovich cycles have a natural effect on what

a)

The Climate

b)

Global Warming

c)

Oxygen levels

d)

The tilt of the Earth

8.

Shape of the orbit (rounder like a ball or flatter like a frisbee)

a)

Wobble

b)

Eccentricity

c)

Tilt

d)

Revolutions

9.

wobble (like a spinning top)

a)

Tilt

b)

Eccentricity

c)

Precession

d)

Revolution

10.

The way that Earth’s axis leans

a)

Eccentricity

b)

Precession

c)

Tilt

d)

Rotation

11.

The current tilt of the Earth's axis in degrees

a)

27

b)

22.7

c)

90

d)

23.5

12.

A single Shark in the ocean

a)

population

b)

organism

c)

community

d)

biome

13.

The area around Earth where all life exists.

a)

atmosphere

b)

troposphere

c)

biosphere

d)

stratosphere

14.

Ozone is dangerous where

a)

near people

b)

up high in the atmosphere

c)

in space

d)

in the ocean

15.

The ozone layer does what for us?

a)

protects Earth from UV rays

b)

stops aliens from attacking us

c)

keeps oxygen in the atmosphere

d)

allows harmful gases to escape into space