Biodiversity + Flow of Energy

Which do you think has a higher species diversity biodiversity, a food chain or a food web?

• Food Chain

• Food Web

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Which type of organism converts wastes and dead materials into nutrients that can be used by plants?

• carnivore

• decomposer

• herbivore

• producer

What has a higher biodiversity: a rain forest or a desert?

• Rain forest

• Desert

• They have a similar biodiversity

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Why is biodiversity in an ecosystem so important?

• Because it can help humans where to determine good places to develop farm land.

• Because places that have a healthy biodiversity are unaffected by major disturbances.

• Because having a high biodiversity allows ecosystems to withstand major changes.

• Because having a high biodiversity allows for fewer opportunities of competition for similar resources.

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What is another term for traits that a species helps them survive major changes in an ecosystem?

• Resiliency

• Adaptation

• Disturbances

• None of the above

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What is happening to the biodiversity of the aquatic ecosystem as a result of the Great Barrier Reef dying?

• Increased

• Decreased

• Stayed the same

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High biodiversity makes the food web more complex and better able to support the most species, even if some populations decrease.

• True

• False

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High biodiversity makes an ecosystem more sustainable because the food web is stronger and organisms perform a wider variety of functions.

• True

• False

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Which of the following is NOT a producer in this food web?

• grass

• shrub

• fungi

• tree

How much energy is transferred from one organism to another?

• only 10%

• all of it, 100%

• only 50%

• 20%

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