Biodiversity Basics
Biodiversity is the number and variety of what in a specific region?
What are living things?
Species diversity refers to the number of what in an ecological community?
What are different species?
What type of ecosystem service provides products such as food and water?
What are provisioning services?
What biome is known for having very little rainfall and extreme temperatures?
What is the desert?
Dynamic equilibrium describes an ecosystem’s ability to do what after a disturbance?
What is return to a balanced state?
The biodiversity index is a number between 0 and 1 that measures what?
What is the level of biodiversity in an area?
Canopy fogging is a method primarily used to collect data on what type of organisms?
What are insects?
Regulating services of an ecosystem include protection against what natural disasters?
What are erosion, floods, and climate change?
A taiga biome consists mostly of what type of trees?
What are cone-bearing evergreen trees?
Mist netting is commonly used to capture and count what types of animals?
What are birds, bats, and fish?
Ecosystem diversity is determined by differences in what two major factors?
What are abiotic and biotic factors?
What scientific method involves placing a rope with marked intervals to count species?
What is transect sampling?
Supporting services allow for the existence of all other ecosystem services by providing what?
What are primary production, water cycling, and nutrient cycling?
Overexploitation is the excessive use of animal and plant species for what three major human needs?
What are food, medicine, and clothing
The presence of mangroves, pickleweeds, and seagrasses indicates what type of ecosystem?
What are estuaries?
What formula is used to determine an area’s biodiversity index?
What is the number of species divided by the total number of individuals
Quadrat sampling is useful for measuring biodiversity in what type of habitats?
What are terrestrial and aquatic habitats?
What is the primary difference between temperate and tropical rainforests?
What is temperature and biodiversity levels?
Name two major threats to biodiversity that involve human activities.
What are habitat destruction and pollution?
What is the main reason temperate deciduous forests experience more seasonal variation than temperate rainforests?
What is their location in relation to the equator?
What biome contains the highest level of biodiversity and is home to species such as jaguars and parrots?
What is the tropical rainforest?
What method of biodiversity measurement relies on taking aerial photos?
What is aerial surveying?
How do gills help fish survive in aquatic ecosystems?
What is separating oxygen from water and moving it into the bloodstream?
Reclamation refers to restoring land that has been disturbed by what activity?
What is mining?
Resilience in an ecosystem refers to its ability to maintain what state despite disturbances?
What is dynamic equilibrium?