Relationships and Biodiversity

High biodiversity is a sign of a healthy ecosystem.

• True

• False

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High biodiversity is 

• having a lot of the same organism.

• having a few of the same organism.

• having a lot of variety of different organisms.

• only having one of each organism. 

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Which shows more biodiversity Image A or Image B. Why?

• Image B is more biodiverse, because shows more different species than image A.

• Image A is more biodiverse, because shows a greater number of organisms that image B

• Both images show the same biodiversity

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Which biome is more biodiverse?

• Desert

• Grassland

• Tundra

• Rainforest

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Anastayjia visited 3 different ecosystems to collect specimens. She visited a grassy area in a tundra and woody area in a Temperate deciduous forest. She collected 20 different types of species from the tundra and 98 different types of species from the forest. Which ecosystem is the MOST sustainable?

• Tundra

• Desert

• Temperate deciduous forest

• Rainforest

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What is true about sustainability?

• Having a small number of species increases biodiversity

• Sustainability is how organisms change over time

• Sustainability is how much rainfall and sunlight an ecosystem receives

• The more different types of species you have (biodiversity) the better an ecosystem can sustain itself

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Which of the following would cause biodiversity to DECREASE?

• Water

• Forest Fires

• Sunlight

• Producers

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A hurricane hit a tundra and a forest. A tundra is less biodiverse than the forest. Which biome would be impacted the most?

• The forest because it has more species and it wouldn't be able to sustain itself as well as the tundra

• They would be impacted the same

• The forest because it has more producers

• The tundra because it has less species and it wouldn't be able to sustain itself as well as the forest

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When biodiversity increases

• Sustainability decreases

• Sustainability remains the same

• Sustainability also increases

• Sustainability becomes greater by 2

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When biodiversity decreases

• Sustainability also decreases

• Sustainability remains the same

• Sustainability increases

• Sustainability is not impacted

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