Biodiversity Jeopardy

Land Biomes

100

A polar bear would live in this biome

What is a tundra?

200

This biome is the most commonly found biome in the United States.

What is a Temperate Deciduous Forest?

300

This biome typically has the highest level of biodiversity.

What is a Tropical Rain Forest?

400

In this biome wheat, corn, barley, and rye thrive.

What are Grasslands?

500

This biome exists only in the northern hemisphere and is also called a boreal forest.

What is a Taiga?

Biodiversity Index

100

The Indianapolis Zoo has a biodiversity index of 0.164.

The Los Angeles Zoo has a biodiversity index of 0.159.

This zoo has the higher biodiversity index.

What is the Indianapolis Zoo?

200

This is the formula for finding an area's biodiversity index.

What is number of unique species divided by the number of individual animals?

300

A surveyed area has 24 individual animals and 6 unique species.

This is the biodiversity index of the area.

What is 0.25?

400

These are the two things the biodiversity index depends on.

What is the number of individual animals and the number of unique species?

500

A surveyed area has 12 unique species and 240 individual animals.

This is the biodiversity index of the area.

What is 0.05?

Measuring Biodiversity

100

This is a method of measuring biodiversity where photos are taken from above.

What are aerial photos?

200

This is a method scientists use to measure the insect biodiversity of an area.

What is canopy fogging?

300

This group of animals has the highest value of species diversity by far with 1,063,000 known species.

What are insects?

400

You would use this method to measure biodiversity of birds in a forest.

What is mist netting? OR What are surveys?

500

This is the sampling method can be used both on land and in the water.

What is transect sampling? OR What is mist netting? OR What are aerial photos? OR What are surveys?

Threats/Solutions

100

This threat is the contamination of the environment with substances that are harmful to life.

What is pollution?

200

This is an organism that is introduced to an ecosystem, either by accident or on purpose, that spreads on its own and outcompetes native species for resources, such as space, light, food, and nutrients.

What are invasive species?

300

This solution for protecting biodiversity includes planting trees to replace trees that have been cut or burned down.

What is reforestation?

400

This is the process of restoring land disturbed by mining.

What is reclamation?

500

This is a method to control invasive species using herbicides an pesticides.

What are chemical controls?

Aquatic Ecosystems

100

This is the aquatic ecosystem that Nemo lived in.

What is a coral reef?

200

A blue whale would live in this aquatic ecosystem.

What is the open ocean?

300

This is an aquatic ecosystem where a freshwater river meets a body of salt water.

What is an estuary?

400

This aquatic ecosystem is home to butterflies, mosquitos, flies, and dragonflies.

What are wetlands?

500

This aquatic ecosystem provides nursery areas for fish and crustaceans.

What are intertidal zones?