Biodiversity
What is biodiversity?
The variety of life and organisms in a habitat or ecosystem. (Variety of plants and animals).
What is a vertebrate?
An animal that has a backbone or spine.
What is an invertebrate?
An animal that does not have a backbone or spine.
What does a food chain show?
How each living thing gets it's food and how nutrients are passed from species to species.
What is ecological resilience?
describes an ecosystems ability to withstand a disturbance.
What is a habitat?
The natural home or environment for a plant, animal, or organism.
What are the five types of vertebrates?
Mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile, fish.
What are the 6 types of invertebrates?
worms, arthropods, cnidaria, echinoderm, mollusc, porifera.
What three types of organisms are in a food chain and give an example for each.
Producer: plants, flowers, grass
consumer: chipmunk, fox, bear
decomposer: flies, maggots, mushrooms
What is habitat destruction?
clearing of land for agriculture, industry, and residential areas.
Why is biodiversity important?
Water and soil quality, pollination, greater crop variety.
What is an amphibian?
a cold-blooded creature that can live on both land and water. (Frog)
What is a mollusc?
an invertebrate and arthropod that has a soft body and lives in aquatic or damp environments.
What is an Endangered Species?
A species that is at risk of extinction.
What is climate change? Give an example.
List three things that are harmful to biodiversity.
invasive species, deforestation, human overpopulation, pollution.
What is a reptile? Give two examples.
A cold-blooded creature with scales that lives on land.
snake, turtle, lizard
What is an arachnid?
An eight-legged creature with no antennae, that do not have claws or wings.
What is an invasive species?
A non-native species that enters a new ecosystem and causes destruction.
What is sustainable agriculture? Give two examples.
Sustainable agriculture is the production of crops or livestock in a manner that limits the impact on the environment. Examples: Limiting the use of chemicals (ie. pesticides) and planting a variety of crop species.
What is genetic diversity? Why is it important?
The biological variation that occurs within a species (different breeds of dogs, different types of corn.
It allows organisms to adapt to a changing environment, and increases the chance that it will survive.
What is a mammal? Give three examples.
A warm blooded animal with hair that gives birth ti live young.
Deer, dog, wolf, tiger, elephant, kangaroo, sheep bear.
What is a crustacean?
What is an Endemic Species?
A species hat can only be found in one specific geographic location.