APES Unit 2.2 Ecosystem Services

Match each service to its definition

• Provisioning

• Natural ecosystem support processes we do ourselves making them both cheaper and easier

• Regulating

• Benefit provided by ecosystem processes that moderate natural conditions like climate and air quality

• Cultural

• Goods taken directly from the ecosystems or made from natural resources

• Supporting

• Money generated by recreation or scientific knowledge

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Match one option with the corresponding photo (do process of elimination if needed)

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f

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Provisioning service

Adaptation

Cultural service

Drought

Regulating Service

Genetic Diversity

Supporting Service

Volcanic Disruption

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Goods that come from natural resources or services/functions that ecosystems carry out that have measurable economic/financial value to humans (Hint: main idea of this part of the unit)

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Match the example to the Service (each only has one)

Groups:

(a) Provisioning

,

(b) Regulating

,

(c) Cultural

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(d) Supporting

• Pollinators

• Tourism

• Wetland plant filtration

• Rubber

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​ (a)   activities can disrupt ecosystem services, potentially resulting in economic and ecological consequences.

• Anthropogenic
• Metamorphic
• Photosynthesis
• Symbiosis
• Embryological

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Anthropogenic as in human activities!

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Which service matches these examples: Rubber, Paper, Fishing

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What service matches with these examples: Trees in the forests storing CO2 reducing climate change rate, Trees absorbing air pollutants, Pollinators

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Which service matches with the examples: Tourist going to see the Niagara Falls, Scientists learning about new plant compounds leading to new medicine being sold.

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Which of the following would be an anthropogenic activity that disrupts Provisioning the most?

• Water Pollution

• Urbanization

• Habitat loss

Answer explanation

If the water is too polluted it can't be taken from nature because we can't drink from it.

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Which Service would be disrupted if a company decides to buy a wetland and fill it up and built overtop of it.

• Provisioning

• Regulating

• Cultural

• Supporting

Answer explanation

Wetlands filter pollutants in the water and make that process both cheaper and easier for humans.

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