Types of Biodiversity
Name the three main types of biodiversity.
What are genetic, species, and ecosystem biodiversity?
What term describes the benefits humans receive from natural ecosystems?
What are ecosystem services?
What is ecological tolerance?
What is the range of environmental conditions a species can endure?
Give one example of a natural ecosystem disruption.
What is a flood, wildfire, hurricane, or volcanic eruption?
What is an adaptation?
What is a trait that increases an organism's chance of survival and reproduction?
Why is genetic diversity important to a population?
What is it helps populations adapt and survive environmental changes?
Give an example of a provisioning service.
What is food, water, timber, or medicine?
What happens when a condition is outside an organism’s tolerance range?
What is the organism may become stressed or die?
What is the difference between short-term and long-term disruptions?
What is short-term causes temporary change; long-term can permanently alter ecosystems?
What are the three types of adaptations?
What are behavioral, structural, and physiological?
What does species richness measure?
What is the number of different species in an area?
What type of service is pollination or climate regulation?
What are regulating services?
What is the term for the range in which a species thrives best?
What is the optimum range?
What is migration often a response to?
What is natural environmental changes or seasonal shifts?
What kind of adaptation is a bird’s migration?
What is a behavioral adaptation?
How does species evenness differ from species richness?
What is it measures how evenly individuals are distributed among species?
What type of ecosystem service includes recreation or aesthetic value?
What are cultural services?
Name an abiotic factor that can affect tolerance range.
What is temperature, salinity, sunlight, or pH?
What can natural disruptions lead to in ecosystems over time?
What is ecological succession or species adaptation?
Give an example of a structural adaptation.
What is the thick fur of an arctic fox or long neck of a giraffe?
Why are ecosystems with higher biodiversity more resilient?
What is they are better able to recover from disturbances?
What makes supporting services different from other types?
What is they support all other services by maintaining natural processes?
Why can generalists survive in more environments than specialists?
What is they have broader tolerance ranges and more flexible diets?
How can natural disruptions increase biodiversity?
What is they can create new niches and reduce dominant species?
How do adaptations relate to natural selection?
What is organisms with helpful traits are more likely to survive and reproduce?