7th - Maintaining biodiversity

What is the name of the species that is more important to maintaining an ecosystem than any other organism?

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_______ are organisms that can be use as warning signals to changes in an ecosystem. We've learned about three different species that are able to gives us clues about three kinds of aspects of an ecosystem. What are they, and what do they tell us about?

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What is the word used to describe when there are no more organisms of a species left on the planet.

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Maintaining biodiversity within the plant species of ecosystems is important because plants such as willow tree bark and the pacific yew tree provide humans with ________.

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Places in the United States that protect the native plants and animals that live there are _______.

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Explain why it would be important to protect some of the natural areas in the United States. Give an example of a time when humans acted to protect an area to save a species from near extinction.

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Explain how scientists determined the keystone species of tidepools. What species was determined to be the keystone species in the tidepools? What happened when this organism was removed from the tidepool?

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List some natural resources that humans depend on ecosystems for. Describe how biodiversity helps maintain these resources for human use/consumption.

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List some human activities that negatively impact the ecosystem and how that can damage biodiversity - give several examples of the consequences of the loss of biodiversity after human activity.

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Koalas live almost entirely on leaves from eucalyptus trees, and they are native exclusively to Australia. What will happen if the koalas’ habitat is destroyed?

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