What Is a Keystone Species

question 72

Multiple Choice

What is a keystone species?

• A)only threatened species
• B)a species that impacts the community more than its numbers would predict
• C)species that have gone extinct
• D)a species that is poached
• E)only forest species

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Definitions:

Affect

The experience of feeling or emotion, which can influence an individual's perception and behavior.

Epidemic

A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

Idiom

A phrase or expression that has a figurative, sometimes literal, meaning different from the meanings of the individual words.

Preoccupied

Absorbed in thought; engrossed or distracted by something, resulting in a lack of attention to other matters.