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What is biodiversity defined as?
What is biodiversity defined as?
- The variability among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems
- The variety of life forms in the entire Earth
- The total number of different species within an ecosystem and the resulting complexity of interactions among them (correct)
- The study of interrelationships of organisms to their biotic and abiotic environment
What does an ecosystem consist of?
What does an ecosystem consist of?
- Assemblage of living and non-living elements contained within a boundary with functional relationships (correct)
- The study of interrelationships of organisms to their biotic and abiotic environment
- Variability among living organisms from all sources
- The total number of different species within an ecosystem and the resulting complexity of interactions among them
What does ecology study?
What does ecology study?
- Interrelationships of organisms to their biotic and abiotic environment (correct)
- The variability among living organisms from all sources
- The total number of different species within an ecosystem
- The variety of life forms in the entire Earth
Where does marine ecology exist?
Where does marine ecology exist?
What does terrestrial ecology study?
What does terrestrial ecology study?