Movement corridors are
a. The routes taken by migratory animals.
b. Strips or clumps of habitat that connect isolated fragments of habitat.
c. Landscapes that include several different ecosystems.
d. Edges, or boundaries, between ecosystems.

Question

Movement corridors are

a. The routes taken by migratory animals.

b. Strips or clumps of habitat that connect isolated fragments of habitat.

c. Landscapes that include several different ecosystems.

d. Edges, or boundaries, between ecosystems.

Accepted Answer

Hi everyone, here's our next problem. It says the extended naturally vegetated areas of the landscape that animals utilize to go from one habitat to another are known as. Let's just kind of think about what the question's asking about for a minute. It's talking about areas that are extended to spread out over space. A naturally hesitated. So having the native naturally occurring plants for that region and these extended natural vegetated areas are places that animals utilize to go from one habitat to another. And those areas are known as movement corridors. Choice B. They are really important because they often refer to quarters of natural vegetated area that stretched across um from one habitat to another that have been separated by um manmade things such as cities, freeways, things like that. So you had a habitat that in the past, animals species ranged over the whole area and now the two habit has been cut off from each other by an artificial thing. And movement corridors provide areas where because they still have that natural vegetation and they're spread out between the two habitats, Animals can move across the artificial barrier from one area to another. But let's just look at our other answer choices to understand why they're not correct choice A says biodiversity hot spots and these are bio geographic areas that have a large pool of biodiversity that is threatened by humans. That's why it's a hot spot. So you have lots of different species in an area and there's some sort of threat to that um there particularly paid attention to because you have that large pool of species there. So a threat to that area will have a larger impact, relatively speaking, that is not our answer choice, however, so we eliminate that, then we'll move on. A choice see protected landscapes and a protected landscape refers to an area of national significance. They offer possibilities for public enjoyment. They're often national parks, things like that that you can have leisure. You might even have economic activities, tourism, but that's still characterized by healthy interactions of people, the land and the water. So you have people enjoying this area but without threatening the natural habitat that's there. So a movement corridor might be protected but that's not the definition of an area that animals used to move from one habitat to another. So that's why choice C. Is not our answer. And then finally we have the which is ego zones. Well, eco zones are an area but they are much larger than a movement corridors because those are the broadest division of earth's surface according to bio geographic principles. All otherwise known as bio geographic domain. And these are kind of they can contain multiple by OEMs. And this referred to areas that are broadly similar in their characteristics. So something like you might talk about multiple tropical rainforests. They might have different individual species of different kinds of trees or animals, but they share this sort of broad similarity between each other in different parts of the earth. This also reflects their evolutionary history that they could have been separated over time, whereas originally they were a single habitat. But that's not our answer either. So we'll eliminate that. So again, the extended, naturally vegetated area of this landscape that animals utilize to go from one habitat to another are known as Choice B movement corridors. See you in the next video.

Movement corridors are
a. The routes taken by migratory animals.
b. Strips or clumps of habitat that connect isolated fragments of habitat.
c. Landscapes that include several different ecosystems.
d. Edges, or boundaries, between ecosystems.

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