Biodiversity Basics
This word means a living thing.
What is an organism?
Sorting living things based on their similarities.
What is Classification?
The process plants use to make their own food?
What is photosynthesis?
Name three human activities that often causes habitat loss.
Deforestation, construction and factories.
Harmful substances that enter the environment and damage ecosystems.
What is pollution?
This term means the variety of living things that live together in an ecosystem.
What is Biodiversity?
How many kingdoms are used to classify living things?
What are the five kingdoms?
A living thing that gets energy by eating other organisms.
What is a consumer?
This happens when a species disappears forever.
What is extinction?
Describe a negative impact of deforestation?
- destroys habitats
- destroys food sources
- endangers species
This term means a community of living and non-living things that interact and are self-sustaining.
What is an ecosystem?
Which scientist created an organized system to classify living things?
What is Carolus Linnaeus?
A living thing that makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a producer?
When a plant or animal changes to survive.
What is an adaptation?
Why is it important to prevent invasive species from spreading?
They can disrupt ecosystems and harm native species.
What is the largest ecosystem on Earth?
What is the ocean?
Which kingdom includes mushrooms, moulds, and yeast?
What is the Fungi Kingdom?
An animal that hunts other animals.
What is a predator?
A species that could possibliy be extinct in the near future.
What is an endangered species?
Name three ways students can reduce their impact on biodiversity at school.
Turning off lights, reducing waste, or recycling.
Why is biodiversity important to ecosystems?
What is it helps ecosystems stay balanced and healthy?
What are the seven levels of classification in order?
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
What is the main source of energy for almost all the food chains on Earth?
What is the Sun?
A species that is introduced into a new ecosystem that becomes overpopulated and harms its new environment.
What is an invasive species.
What is overexploitation?
Using a renewable resource faster than it can replace itself.