Biodiversity
What is the variety of life?
Where is one of the most biodiverse places in the world?
What is the Amazon rainforest or great barrier reefs?
What is the main threat to biodiversity?
What are humans?
Species Diversity is....
The number and relative abundance of species in a biological community.
True or false: All members of a food web are equal in abundance and in their relative effects on one another.
False
The type of biodiversity that shows the different genomes in one population
What is genetic diversity?
Ture or false: If an organism is removed from a food web then the ecosystem will fall apart. Explain.
False. The higher the biodiversity the more stable the ecosystem.
What is an example of a threat to biodiversity?
what is pollution, habitat loss, climate change, poor land management, overfishing, invasive species, etc
Resilience is...
Give an example of a keystone species
What is a wolf, beaver, elephant, star fish, etc.
What are the three types of biodiversity?
What is species biodiversity, ecosystem biodiversity, and genetic biodiversity.
What does species biodiversity measure?
The total number of species in an area.
What makes an ecosystem stronger to threats?
What is increased biodiversity?
Ecosystem Diversity is...
The variety of Ecosystems within a given region
The teosinte plant providing pest resistant genes to corn is a direct value of this type of biodiversity.
What is genetic diversity?
Invasive Species is.....
An invasive species is an introduced organism that becomes overpopulated and negatively alters its new environment
what is the functional role an organism plays in an ecosystem?
What is a niche?
Can a disrupted ecosystem be fixed? How?
what is reintroducing keystones species to the ecosystem
This type of organism sustains the balance of an ecosystem
What is keystone species?
Keystone species are usually a _____________.
what is apex predator?