In Your Backyard You Overturn a Large Rock

Multiple Choice

In your backyard you overturn a large rock. In the damp soil underneath the rock, you see various insects scurrying for cover: one black spider, five black ants, two brown beetles, and three gray pillbugs. In this community of organisms, species richness is represented by

A) the ants, since there are more of them than any other organism.
B) eleven total organisms.
C) four different species of organisms.
D) the ants and the spider equally, since they have the greatest number of organisms of the same color.