BIODIVERSITY REVIEW Biodiversity The variety of living things
BIODIVERSITY REVIEW • Biodiversity: The variety of living things. • Bio=life • Diversity=variety Sustainability=having the resources available for an ecosystem to continue to survive
USING THE DEFINITIONS ABOVE • With your shoulder partner, determine how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem. Use this sentence stem: “The greater the biodiversity…. ” • Be ready to share. ☺
• Get out a sheet of notebook paper and number your paper 1 -10 skipping lines in between. • Bill Nye Biodiversity Video • https: //youtu. be/t. U 0 As 7130 mc • As you watch the video, make sure you write down 10 facts in complete sentences about biodiversity.
ANSWER IN YOUR JOURNAL WITH YOUR SHOULDER PARTNER • In the following disturbances, list the cause of the loss of natural habitat. • What will happen to the biodiversity? • What are the limiting factors after the disturbance?
Warm-up Write down on your notecard some factors that can cause changes in an ecosystem.
WITH YOUR SHOULDER PARTNER • Pond succession card sort • Draw and label the pond succession in your notebook. Title the next blank page in your journal “Ecological Succession”. Think-Pair-Share what ecological succession means. Write it in your journal.
COOL DOWN • Why is biodiversity important to the sustainability of an ecosystem?
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