Biodiverity Guided Viewing
1: What is biodiversity?
Biodiversity is the variations in life
2: What are we doing to decrease biodiversity? What is a monoculture?
To decrease biodiversity we are increased farming. We are decreasing life diversity to replace it one specie. monoculture is the growth of on specie rather than many
3: How much of our planet’s species have been identified?
We have discovered less than
half of the all species predicted
4: What is a keystone species? What is an example? Why are they important?
A keystone species is a
specie in an ecosystem that does proportionally more than the other species in
the ecosystem. An example is the Jaguar and the sea otter. They are important
because they regulate and manage the numbers of other consumers within the
ecosystem
5: E.O. Wilson stated, “ The one
process ongoing that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.This is the folly that our descendants are least likely to forgive us.”
Discuss this statement. What is the #1 cause of
species decline?
The number one
cause of species decline is the destruction of habitats from humans. Humans are
constantly destroying habitats where animals live forcing lots of deaths or
those animals to move to another habitat increasing competition. With the
destruction of habitats we are also decreasing biodiversity and are promoting
monoculture which is diverse
Biodiversity is the variations in life
2: What are we doing to decrease biodiversity? What is a monoculture?
To decrease biodiversity we are increased farming. We are decreasing life diversity to replace it one specie. monoculture is the growth of on specie rather than many
3: How much of our planet’s species have been identified?
We have discovered less than
half of the all species predicted
4: What is a keystone species? What is an example? Why are they important?
A keystone species is a
specie in an ecosystem that does proportionally more than the other species in
the ecosystem. An example is the Jaguar and the sea otter. They are important
because they regulate and manage the numbers of other consumers within the
ecosystem
5: E.O. Wilson stated, “ The one
process ongoing that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.This is the folly that our descendants are least likely to forgive us.”
Discuss this statement. What is the #1 cause of
species decline?
The number one
cause of species decline is the destruction of habitats from humans. Humans are
constantly destroying habitats where animals live forcing lots of deaths or
those animals to move to another habitat increasing competition. With the
destruction of habitats we are also decreasing biodiversity and are promoting
monoculture which is diverse