Biodiversity Review

Not native to an area, competing for resources with indigenous organisms

• invasive

• keystone

• indicator

• extinct

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A species that is so important to an ecosystem, its removal would impact other trophic levels greatly.

• invasive

• keystone

• endangered

• indicator

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

A large number of different plants and animals in an ecosystem

• indicator species

• streamline species

• keystone species

• biodiversity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

plant and animal species that are found in a particular geographical region and nowhere else in the world

• indicator

• endemic

• keystone

• extinct

Indigenous/native species are species

• who are naturally living in an area

• brought in by humans

• drifted to a new place in a storm

• large herbivores in the tundra

A struggle for resources between organisms

• indicator

• commensalism

• predator-prey

• competition

A species whose presence or absence tells scientists about the conditions or changes of the ecosystem

• parasite

• keystone

• endemic

• indicator

Both organisms benefit

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• predator-prey

One organism benefits the other is UNAFFECTED

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• predator-prey

Very few numbers of a species in still in existence

• endangered

• extinct

• indicator

• keystone

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1