Ecology: Biodiversity

What is the largest ecological system?

• Humans

• Organisms

• Biosphere

• Plants

How do living things interact?

• Organization

• Depends on the other living organisms

• Biosphere

• Ecological system

What is a community?

• A group of different species that live in a common location

• Where all the same species live together

• Where animals go to socialize with other animals

• A popular tv Show

What is Ecology?

• The study of the relations between organisms to one another and to their physical environment

• The study of the relations between plants and animals

• The study of the relations between humans and the earth

• The study of the relations between plants and humans

Biologists use models to represent or describe components of an ecological system.

• True

• False

What is another word we could use to describe an ecosystem?

• The Food Chain

• Traits

• Population

• Habitat

What is Biodiversity?

• The study of life

• A living organism

• The variety of life on Earth

• A non living organism

Genetic diversity within individual species allows them to _________.

• Die

• Become isolated

• Lower their population

• Cope with changes

What is the most bio-diverse ecosystem on earth?

• A rural area

• A rain forest

• A urban area

• A beach

What are the three features biodiversity is built on?

• Genetic, community, habitat

• Genetic, ecosystem, species

• Genetic, population, species

• Genetic, ecosystem, population