Organisms & the Environment

What is biodiversity?

• Maintaining something at a stable level

• All of the living and non-living things in an environment

• All of the members of the same species in an area

• All of the different types of living things

What is sustainability?

• Maintaining something at a stable level

• All of the different types of living things

• all of the non living & living things in an environment

What is population?

• All of the different types of living things

• All of the living and non living things in an environment

• All of the same species in an area

• What is population?

Biodiversity makes an ecosystem______________ stable.

• More

• Less

• Equally

• Not

Very cold, soil remains permanently frozen, low biodiversity...

• Grassland

• Desert

• Rainforest

• Tundra

Moderate rainfall, covered in mostly grass, medium biodiversity...

• Tundra

• Taiga

• Grassland

• Desert

Very dry, very hot & low biodiversity...

• Tundra

• Temperate Deciduous

• Desert

• Taiga

Forested with cone-bearing trees that have needles instead of leaves, medium biodivesity...

• Tropical Rainforest

• Temperate Deciduous Forest

• Taiga

Rains every day, covered in plant life, highest biodiversity of all land biomes...

• Tropical Rainforest

• Temperate Deciduous

• Taiga

Moderate rainfall, trees have broad & flat leaves that change color and drop in the fall, has high biodiversity...

• Tropical Rainforest

• Taiga

• Temperate Deciduous Forest