Biodiversity
Importance of Biodiversity
Threats to Biodiversity
Biodiversity Vocabulary
DNA and Reproduction
100
What is biodiversity?
What is the variety of life?
100
Where is one of the most biodiverse places in the world?
What is the rainforests or great barrier reefs?
100
What is the main threat to biodiversity?
What is habitat loss
100
Giraffe live with lions, tigers and acacia trees in the Savanna plains. What does this describe?
A community.
100
What is this a diagram of? If there are 18 chromosomes in the mother cell, how many are in the daughter cells?
Mitosis. There would be 18 in each.
200
The type of biodiversity that shows the different genes in one population
What is genetic diversity?
200
Ture or false: If an organism is removed from a food web then the ecosystem will fall apart. Explain.
TRUE. The lower the biodiversity the less stable the ecosystem.
200
Besides Habitat loss what is an example of a threat to biodiversity?
what is pollution, climate change, poor land management, overfishing, invasive species, etc
200
A tick is stuck on a dog. The dog is itchy and the tick gets blood. What kind of symbiosis is this?
Parasitism
200
What is the purpse of DNA?
To carry the genetic code for all living things.
300
What are the three types of biodiversity?
What is species biodiversity, ecosystem biodiversity, and genetic biodiversity.
300
Eye colour can be green or blue or brown. This variation is an example of _____________ variation.
What is discrete?
300
What makes an ecosystem stronger to threats?
What is increased biodiversity?
300
A advantage of a specialist is ....
They have specialized adaptations to decreases the amount of competition with other organisms.
300
What is the difference between a gene and an allele?
A gene is a section of DNA that codes for a specific protein/trait. An allele is a FORM of a expression of that gene.
400
Forests, fields, prairies, ponds, estuaries, marshes all exemplify this type of diversity.
What is ecosystem diversity?
400
Daily double- Only for team that gets the question. Why do GMO or selective breeding threaten biodiversity?
Encourages crops of only one type without variation which decreases biodiversity.
400
What threat results from deforestation?
Increased CO2 levels, climate change, habitat loss, etc.
400
Name 4 types of asexual reproduction
Spores, Binary Fission, Vegetative reproduction and Budding
400
A parent had straight hair. The other parent of the offspring had curly hair. The child had wavy hair. What type of dominance is this?
Incomplete dominance
500
This occurs to biodiversity as we move closer to the tropics.
What is increase?
500
what is the functional role an organism plays in an ecosystem?
What is a niche? It includes how the organism interacts with it's abiotic and biotic environement.
500
Can a disrupted ecosystem be fixed? How?
what is reintroducing keystones species to the ecosystem
500
Where is the pollen transferred to in the first step of plant sexual reproduction?
The stigma
500
A risk that comes with many generations of selective breeding.
Less biodiversity.
Some unplanned undesirable characteristics of the population may increase in frequency along with desirable characteristics.