Unit 2 TEST: Wetlands: Ecosystem Goods & Services

This is a measurement of the rate in which energy can be consumed within an ecosystem resulting in a growth in biomass.

• Plant Biomass

  
  

• Biological Productivity

  
  

• Dead Plant Material

  
  

• Carbon Storage

  
  

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The amount of carbon wetland plants remove from the atmosphere through photosynthesis is called?

• Chemical Processes

  
  

• Biological Uptake

  
  

• Carbon Storage

  
  

• Nutrient Cycling

  
  

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Physical Trapping -

Involves wetland vegetation slowing up water flow, which allows sediment and other particulate material to settle on the floor of the wetland.

• Ture

• False

Habitat Provisions for wetlands include: (2 answers)

• pharmaceuticals

• biodiversity support

  
  

• phosphorus

• food web support

  
  

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which of the following are the two types of government programs,

which are designed to stop or reduce wetland loss?

• Regulatory and privatized

  
  

• Incentivizing and privatized

  
  

• Regulatory and incentivizing

  
  

• Privatized and incentivizing

  
  

Recharge of shallow groundwater contributing to stream flow.

• Nutrient Cycling

  
  

• Baseflow Contribution

  
  

• Biological Productivity

  
  

• Biological Uptake

  
  

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Process of moving organic and inorganic matter throughout an ecosystem

• Hydrophytic

  
  

• Biological Uptake

  
  

• Economic Benefits

  
  

• Nutrient Cycling

  
  

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

To be considered a wetland, the area must be covered in shallow water all year.

• True

• False

Recreational activities generate how much money per year?

• 13 billion

  
  

• 40 billion

  
  

• 38 billion

  
  

• 116 billion

  
  

Which of the following was enacted to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the nation’s waters?

• Wetland-mitigation Banking

  
  

• Clean Water Act

  
  

• Water Quality Trading

  
  

• Safe Drinking Water Act