Question 1

What are ecosystem services?

Accepted Answer

Various benefits to humans that healthy natural ecosystems provide

Question 2

What are supporting ecosystem services?

Accepted Answer

Providing living spaces for plants or animals and maintaining biodiversity

(ocean fish reproduce in estuaries, decaying leaves help form soil, etc.)

Question 3

What are provisioning ecosystem services?

Accepted Answer

Material benefits from ecosystems

(timber, medicine, honey, sand, etc.)

Question 4

What are regulating ecosystem services?

Accepted Answer

The benefit that ecosystems provide to moderate natural phenomena

(carbon storage, pollination, flood control, air purification, etc.)

Question 5

What are cultural ecosystem services?

Accepted Answer

Non-material benefits from ecosystems, including aesthetic inspiration, cultural identity, and sense of home

(scenic parks, religious importance, etc.)

2.2 Ecosystem Services, AP Environmental Science Flashcards