Question

A maintained ecosystem increases the number and variety of organisms found in a specific geographic region. This is also known as _____.

Answer 1

Answer: Biodiversity.

Explanation:

Biodiversity is the totality of living organisms from all sources, terrestrial, marine and other ecosystems and all habitats to which they belong, including diversity within species, among species, and of all ecosystems.

Biodiversity is crucial for sustaining life on earth. Today, biodiversity faces many problems that can have catastrophic consequences, most notably garbage, increased infrastructure development, intensive agricultural practices and climate change.