AP Environmental Science / Unit 2: The Living World: Biodiversity
2.2 Ecosystem Services
Notes
Ecosystems provide benefits:
- Provisioning: food, wood, medicine.
- Regulating: climate, flood control, water purification.
- Supporting: pollination, soil formation, nutrient cycling.
- Cultural: recreation, tourism.
Practice
Bees pollinating crops is a:
Supports food production.
Wetlands reducing floods is a:
Controls natural processes.
Lumber from a forest is a:
A product.
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