Biodiversity

The number and variety of organisms found in a specific region is known as

• Biodiversity

• Canopy Fogging

• Resiliance

• Biome

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A geographic area on Earth that contains ecosystems with similar biotic and abiotic features

• Dynamic equilibrium

• Biome

• Biodiversity

• Ecosystem services

The contamination of the environment with substances that are harmful to life

• Biodiversity

• Invasive species

• Pollution

• Habitat destruction

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This type of threat to biodiversity involves cutting down forests, draining wetlands, or generally changing a habitat so much that is is no longer usable by organisms that live there

• Overexploitation

• Invasive species

• Habitat destruction

• climate change

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The orange-spotted filefish is highly sensitive to changes in water temperature. After long periods of warmer water temperatures, the fish disappeared from the coral reefs. Which threat to biodiversity caused the change in fish population to decrease?

• Invasive species

• Overexploitation

• Habitat destruction

• Climate change

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Variation in tulip flower color is an example of which type of diversity?

• genetic diversity

• ecological diversity

• biosphere diversity

• species diversity

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When a large percentage of existing species go extinct within a relatively short geological time period it is called a...

• mass extinction event

• risk of extinction

• climate change

• big bang

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Deserts, rainforests, coastal wetlands, and grasslands are examples of which kind of biodiversity?

• species diversity

• genetic diversity

• ecological diversity

• biotic diversity

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.... is replaceable or regenerated over time

• Renewable resources

• Nonrenewable resources

• Expendable resources

• Nonexpendable resources

.... cannot be regenerated over time by natural processes

• Renewable resources

• Nonrenewable resources

• Expendable resources

• Nonexpendable resources