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- 1. Multiple Choice
The area where a plant or animal lives
environment
location
habitat
home
- 2. Multiple Choice
What will help prevent unnecessary habitat destruction?
Spreading out farms and urban developments
Finding a balance between what humans and animals need
Decreasing animal populations
Decreasing plant populations
- 3. Multiple Choice
Breaking up large areas of habitat into smaller pieces is called...
Destruction
Conservation
Logging
Fragmentation
- 4. Multiple Choice
A species that is not supposed to be in an ecosystem (non-native) and has no competition
invasive species
fossil fuels
direct harvesting
indicator species
- 5. Multiple Choice
Fragmentation of habitat causes problems because (check all that apply)...
It reduces the amount of food that may be available
It reduces the number of mates available
It keeps predators out of the habitat
It increases how much land is available
- 6. Multiple Choice
When a habitat is destroyed, ____ (check all that are true)
Only organisms that can adapt quickly will survive
Only organisms that can move out of the area quickly will survive.
No plants or animals will survive.
Most plants will survive because their seeds are still in the ground.
- 7. Multiple Choice
A good example of the fragmentation of habitat would be _____.
Cutting down a forest to build a housing development.
Draining a swamp to develop the land.
Building a road through the woods.
Polluting the James River
- 8. Multiple Choice
Degradation of habitat is much easier to see than destruction or fragmentation.
true
false
- 9. Multiple Choice
Reducing the quality of habitat through pollution or invasive species is called ___________.
degradation
destruction
fragmentation
mitigation
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is it called when developers have to create or set aside land elsewhere for plants and animals to offset the destruction to habitat?
degradation
destruction
fragmentation
mitigation
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