Biodiversity Test

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

• High (rich) biodiversity
• Low (poor) biodiversity

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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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The illegal capture or killing of an organism, often for money, is called...

• poaching
• harvesting
• fragementation
• extinction

All living and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact are called ______

• ecosystem
• community

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True or false. Pollution tends to increase biodiversity.

• True

• False

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Biodiversity includes which of the following:

• species diversity

• economy diversity

• ecosystem diversity

• genetic diversity

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What is an invasive species?

• an organism that IS native to an area and causes harm to the environment/humans

• an organism that is NOT native to an area and causes harm to the environment/humans

• an organism that is NOT native to an area and helps the environment/humans

• an organism that IS native to an area and helps the environment/humans

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Which of the following forbids the U.S. government and its citizens from harming endangered or threatened species and their habitats?

• the Environmental Protection Agency
• Species Survival Plan
• the Endangered Species Act
• The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

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The major cause of extinction is ____________________.

• climate change

• habitat destruction

• pollution

• poaching

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Scientists think people have directly caused the extinction of some species through ______________.

• habitat destruction
• poaching
• pollution
• All of these

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