Biodiversity and Human Impact

Killing organisms at a rate that is faster than what they can repopulate:

• invasive species
• carrying capacity
• limiting factors
• overharvesting

If the population of a certain predator increases, there is often _______ its prey

• a decrease the population of
• an increase of the population of 
• great news for its prey of
• no  impact found on

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Fragmentation causes

• more edge habitat and less interior  habitat
• more interior habitat and less edge habitat

Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.

• a limiting measure
  carrying capacity
• a limiting factor
• living factors
• pollution

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Natural disasters can be considered limiting factors.

• true
• false

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Invasive species are:

• non-native
• harmful to an ecosystem
• organisms that can lack predators in the new environment
• all of the answers are correct

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

All the different life in an area

• species
• population
• biodiversity
• organisms

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The number one threat to biodiversity

• pollution
• fragmentation
• habitat destruction
• limiting factors

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

A road has been built in the middle of a forest.  The forest is now

• divided
• logged
• cut
• fragmented

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

No more of the species exists.

• extinct
• endangered
• threatened

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1