Biodiversity Guided Viewing
1. What is biodiversity?
- The different kinds of biology.
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 one 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
- The different kinds of biology.
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 one 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