Threats and Solutions to Biodiversity
Biomes
Definitions
Relationships
Kingdoms
100
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
100
A large region with common plants and animals that are determined by the region's geography and climate, in other words, its characteristics.
What is a biome?
100
Organism without a backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
100
A diagram showing the connection between specieswithin an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
100
The largest kingdom.
What is the animal kingdom?
200
Threat - overhunting
What is better rules and regulations or education?
200
This biome is defined by a hot, dry climate.
What is a desert?
200
Organism with a backbone
What is a vertebrate?
200
Plants and animals are classified according to this.
What is its structure?
300
When humans take over land used by animals.
What is habitat destruction?
300
This biome is characterized by large, open, grassy areas.
What is grasslands?
300
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
300
Wolves depend on each other for these reasons (give two).
What is to defend their territory, raise their cubs, hunt for large prey?
300
Organisms that are rooted to the ground, are not green and cannot make their own food.
What are Fungi?
400
A non-native species that grows successfully and aggressively to dominate an area.
What is invasive species?
400
Frozen, cold ecosystems found near the Northern most parts of the Earth. Known for their long, cold winters, and their short, cool summers. May also have a layer of permafrost, a layer of earth that remains frozen all year round.
What is tundra
400
To use fully for one's own benefit.
What is exploit?
400
The relationship between a dog and fleas.
What is parasitism?
400
They are single celled organisms that do not contain a nucleus.
What are monerans?
500
No longer exists in the Canadian wild but occurs elsewhere.
What is extirpated?
500
Canada's most biologically diverse biome
What is a temperate deciduous forest?
500
To protect the natural world and the biodiversity within it.
What is conservation?
500
The relationship between a clownfish and a sea anemone.
What is mutualism?
500
Kingdom that contains ameoba and paramecium.
What is the Protist Kingdom?
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