Biodiversity
The number and variety of different species in an area.
What is biodiversity?
This biome is the most biodiverse on Earth and is found near the equator.
What is a tropical rainforest?
Organisms that produce their own food using the sun's energy, like plants.
What are producers (or autotrophs)?
A species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future in Ontario.
What is an endangered species?
This beautiful insect, known for its orange and black wings, is considered a Species of Special Concern in Canada and relies on the Milkweed plant to survive.
What is the Monarch butterfly?
The prefix "bio" in biodiversity.
What is life or living?
These are the two main types of factors in an ecosystem: biotic and this.
What is abiotic (non-living)?
The maximum number of steps an energy transfer chain usually has because so much energy is lost.
What is 3 to 5 (or 3 to 4) steps?
The biggest threat to biodiversity, which happens when farmland or suburbs replace a forest or wetland.
What is habitat loss or deforestation?
This large, non-native bird, known for its white feathers and S-shaped neck, has established growing populations along waterways and sometimes competes with native waterfowl.
What is the Mute Swan?
The term for all the living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
A grassland or desert is an example of a large region with a specific climate and plant/animal community, also known as this.
What is a biome?
Organisms, like fungi and bacteria, that break down dead matter and return nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
A non-native species that is introduced to an ecosystem and harms the native species or resources.
What is an invasive species?
This animal, once endangered but now thriving, is a symbol of Canada, known for building dams in rivers and ponds and for its large flat tail.
What is the Beaver?
The variety of life within a single species, like the differences between all the dogs in the world.
What is Genetic Diversity?
The term for all the populations of different species that interact in the same area.
What is a community?
A diagram that shows how energy flows through overlapping and interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
The process where chemicals build up in the tissues of organisms as they move up the food chain.
What is biomagnification?
This invasive fish, named for its striped shell, was introduced to the Great Lakes and quickly clogs pipes and damages native clam populations.
What is the Zebra Mussel?
The name for an organism's specific role in its ecosystem, such as a decomposer or producer.
What is a niche?
A region's general, long-term pattern of weather, which helps determine which biome it is.
What is a climate?
Only about this percent of energy is transferred from one trophic level (eater) to the next
What is 10%?
An action like volunteering for a shoreline clean-up or removing an invasive plant that helps save biodiversity.
What is conservation or stewardship?
This iconic large bear, which loves honey and fish, is a common sight in Northern Ontario forests and is an important part of the ecosystem.
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