Living Things
Importance of Biodiversity
Invertebrates
Misc
Misc
100
What does the term biodiversity mean
A variety of life and organisms in a habitat
100
This ecosystem benefit allows plants to help clean water by removing harmful contaminants.
What is improved water quality?
100
What does the term "Invertebrate" mean?
An animal with no backbone or spine
100
What are special features that help living things survive in different habitats referred to as?
Traits/Adaptations
100
You are a mean one... Mr....
Grinch
200
What does the term vertebrate mean?
Animals with a backbone or spine
200
This benefit of biodiversity helps break down dead plants and animals, improving soil and preventing disease.
What is waste management (decomposition)?
200
This group makes up about 3% of all known species on Earth?
What are invertibrates?
200
What is a person who does research on aliens called?
A xenologist
200
Oh Canada...
Our home and native land!
300
What is the difference between Cold-Blooded animals and Warm-Blooded animals?
Warm-Blooded animals use energy to maintain their body temperature and Cold-Blooded animals do not.
300
Birds, bats, and insects support biodiversity by performing this process, which helps plants reproduce.
What is pollination?
300
These are examples of what type of invertebrates?
Arthropods
300
Most classification systems organize plants, animals and other living things into five large groups called....
Kingdoms
300
It protects soil, reduces chemicals, and supports species diversity.
What is sustainable agriculture.
400
The biological variation that occurs within species?
Genetic diversity
400
Biodiversity helps ecosystems survive disturbances like climate change because ecosystems become more _________.
What is resilient?
400
This is an example of what type of invertebrate?
Annelids or "worms"
400
The natural home or environment of a plant or animal.
What is a habitat?
400
Cold-blooded species are ectothermic. What do you call warm-blooded species?
Endothermic
500
Plants and animals that live together in a habitat form what?
A community
500
This human benefit of biodiversity supports food security by maintaining healthy soils, genetic diversity, and strong crops.
What is agriculture / food production?
500
These are examples of what type of invertebrate?
Porifera or "Sponges"
500
38 + 29
67
500
One makes its own food (e.g., grass) and the other eats organisms (e.g., mouse).
What is a producer and consumer.