ECOLOGY
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Short term impact
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Long term impact
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of individual organisms or an entire species. Short-term environmental changes, like droughts, floods, and fires do not give populations time to adapt to the change and force them to move or become extinct. (Extinct species no longer exist.)
Detailed explanation-2: -Based on the definition above, short-term uses of the environment would include: Disruption of neighborhoods, increased noise, dust, and visual degradation during construction. Temporary degradation of air quality due to fugitive dust during construction.
Detailed explanation-3: -Short Term Changes A short-term environmental change is drought, smog, flooding, volcanic eruption, blizzards, and pollution.
Detailed explanation-4: -Short-term effects take place soon after an event, but long-term effects build up over time. Evaluating long-term effects is often helpful in understanding the present and anticipating the future.