Biodiversity
Vocab
Human Impact
Species Relationships
Food Chain/Web
100
The number and variety of organisms found in a specific area (such as a small pond, a grassy field, a desert, or all of the Earth.)
Biodiversity
100
What is the term for when the last member of a species dies?
Extinction
100
What is one way humans have affected Biodiversity?
Acceptable answers: Harming the environment in any way, pollution, deforestation, mass emissions of CO2, etc.
100
What is competition amongst species?
When one or more species fight for the same resources.
100
Makes its own energy using the sun.
Producer
200
The living factors within an ecosystem.
Biotic
200
a community of living organisms and all of the biotic and abiotic factors in an area
Ecosystem
200
The primary cause of current mass extinction
Humans
200
Mutualism
Neither is harmed, both benefit
200
Model that shows the energy levels in an ecosystem.
Energy Pyramid
300
The non-living factors within an ecosystem.
Abiotic
300
A symbiotic relationship where one species benefits and the other is harmed.
Parasitism
300
Has the increase of human population increased or decreased Biodiversity?
Decreased.
300
What are examples of harmful symbiotic relationships?
Predation and Parasitism
300
The shape of an energy pyramid is a ___________
Triangle
400
This device helps scientists estimate the species in an ecosystem.
Drone
400
Has a low number of organisms and very few different types of organism (a few varieties of species) example:
Low Biodiversity
400
How has deforestation affected biodiversity?
Acceptable answers: Habitat loss, mass amounts of carbon released which can lead to ocean acidification and kill coral reefs which ultimately decreases biodiversity within it, etc.
400
Commensalism
One species benefit. The host species neither benefits from nor is harmed by the relationship.
400
A tertiary consumer is at the __________ of an energy pyramid.
Top
500
The key species within an ecosystem.
Predator
500
Has a large number of organisms and many different types of organism
(a wide variety of species) example:
High Biodiversity
500
The most threatened areas of high species diversity on Earth
Hotspots
500
What raises the fitness of two species?
Symbiosis
500
A species that does not produce its own energy from the sun.
Consumer