Biodiversity
AP Objective Sheet Chapters 5 and 22
Name ________________________
Date ____________ Pd __________
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What are the three descriptions of biodiversity?
What is the difference between threatened, endangered, and extinct?
Describe 5 reasons biodiversity should be protected and give specific details to explain each of the
five reasons.
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What are the threats to biodiversity?
What is biomagnification? Give an example to illustrate your definition.
What characteristics of a species make it more likely to become endangered?
Identify at least five organisms which are endangered or threatened and explain why they are
endangered.
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Describe strategies used to increase species populations.
Discuss the role of hunting in wildlife management.
What is wildlife management? What types of strategies do wildlife managers use?
Why do wildlife biologists need to count population size accurately? Describe methods used to do
this. What is a census?
Why do wildlife biologists use random sampling techniques?
What types of organisms would be counted with a census? With random sampling?
How do wildlife biologists track organisms? What kind of information can tracking data provide?
How can this information be used to manage a species?
Describe tag and recapture techniques.
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16. Identify at least five organisms which were endangered but have recovered significantly. Explain
why each has had a successful recovery.
17. What is the purpose of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and when was it created?
18. What Federal agencies are responsible for implementing the ESA?
19. How does an animal get on the endangered species list?
20. About how many species are on the list today?
21. Compare and contrast the Lacey Act with the ESA.
22. What is CITES and what is its purpose?
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How does background extinction differ from mass extinction?
Why do some scientists argue a mass extinction is happening today?
What is the theory of evolution? Distinguish between microevolution and macroevolution.
What is the theory of natural selection? Who developed this theory? What three conditions must
be met for natural selection to occur in a population?
What is an adaptation? How do adaptations arise? Why can’t organisms change their adaptations
during their lifetime? What happens to a population that can’t adapt to a changing environment
fast enough?
Describe three types of natural selection.
What is coevolution? Give an example of species which have coevolved.
How do new species evolve?
How can trophy hunting change a population?
Friday, Sept 26
Endangered species Index card assignment: visit www.redlist.org; choose an
endangered species. On an index card, paste a picture of the species. Write its
common name and scientific name and identify where it is found. List the reasons
the species is endangered.
Notes: Biodiversity – what it is,
and why we should protect it.
Monday Sept 29
Tuesday Sept 30
Wed Oct 1/Thu Oct 2
Friday Oct 3
Index card due
Notes: Wildlife
Management Tools
Quiz – Obj #1-10
No School – Yom Kippur
Notes: Why
species are
endangered
HW – Wildlife
Management Tools
Activity – Random Sampling
Design a recovery
plan for the
Attwaters Prairie
Chicken
Monday Oct 6
HW – Study for quiz
Obj #1-10
Tuesday Oct 7
Random Sampling
activity turned in
Outside to Wolf
Prairie!
Activity – Tag and
Recapture
Plant Identification
practice
HW – remember
closed toe shoes for
next two classes!
Explain Diversity lab
Monday Oct 13
Natural Selection
discussion
Online simulation
assignment due
Quiz – Obj#23-31
HW – Lab write up;
Study for Test
HW – Endangered Species Index
card due Monday.
HW – complete
Prelab – Comparing
diversity using
Shannon-Weiner
index;
Tuesday Oct 14
Review Day!
HW – Lab write up,
study for test
HW – complete random sampling activity
Wednesday Oct 8/Thursday Oct 9
Friday Oct 10
Prelab stamped
Natural Selection Notes stamped
Outside to Wolf Prairie! Lab – Comparison
of biodiversity in Wolf Prairie (Data
collection)
Lab Data Analysis
HW – Read about Natural Selection in
textbook pg 107-116. Take notes in outline
form on reading.
Reading in class – Success stories
and comparison of Laws
HW – complete on-line simulation
of Natural Selection ; Lab write up
due Fri Oct 17
Wed Oct 15
Thursday Oct 16
Friday Oct 17
PSAT – all 9th, 10th
11th graders
4th, 6th periods –
LAB REPORT DUE
BIODIVERSITY
TEST!
5th period – Biodiversity TEST
Senior Class
meeting ________
5th period –
Monarch tagging
4th/6th periods Monarch Tagging!
HW – Finish lab
report