One Reason Biodiversity Is Such an Important Aspect of Sustainability

question 62

Multiple Choice

One reason biodiversity is such an important aspect of sustainability is that it ____.

• A) maintains a ready supply of new materials for water, soil, and food
• B) is the ultimate source of energy for plants
• C) provides vital ecosystem services through the interactions among species and keeps any population from growing too large
• D) makes life less susceptible to constant adaptation and changing environmental conditions
• E) increases ecotourism in less developed countries

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Definitions:

Divide

The process of splitting a number into equal parts or groups, or finding how many times one number is contained within another.

Multiply

The arithmetic operation of scaling one number by another, essentially repeated addition.

Multiply

The arithmetic process of calculating the result of adding a number to itself a certain number of times.

Simplify

To simplify means to reduce an expression or equation to its simplest form, by combining like terms, reducing fractions, etc.