A person living in a small town has a large backyard in which she cultivates a vegetable garden and several flower gardens.She plants flowering shrubs, hangs birdhouses, and sets up a birdbath.She provides habitat for butterflies and other pollinators, and for toads and other insect predators.The resulting backyard can best be described as a

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The person's backyard is a coupled human-natural system because it involves the interactions between the individual and the natural environment. The individual is taking actions to cultivate a vegetable and flower garden, attract beneficial insects and animals, and create a hospitable environment for pollinators. This involves a combination of human activity and natural processes, making it a coupled system. The other answer choices do not adequately describe the situation, as the backyard is not a protected area, habitat corridor, buffer zone, or fragmented habitat.

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