11th November 2021
the daily future
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Reports from the European Space Agency
confirm that our time has come: An asteroid the
size of London is heading to Earth that will wipe
out all the Biodiversity on this planet. But what
is biodiversity?
Biodiversity is:
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The areas that will lose the most variety of
life are found near the____________. These
habitats have greater biodiversity because
they receive the most _________________.
Living things use this for________________
_________________ Examples of biodiverse
habitats can be found on land such
as_________________ and in the sea such
as__________________. They can be
described as being full of ______________.
[KEY WORDS: sunlight, coral reefs, equator,
rainforests, life, making food]
NOW WHAT DO WE DO?
__________ are our most important type of
food. They feed us and all other__________.
Different ____________ of _____________
provide us with ______________ types of
______________. This is why ____________
in Norway have built a ________ _________
to store many _________________ of seeds
underground. If any of us do ____________
the asteroid, the seed bank could_________
plant ___________________ [variety] and
allow us to ________ different species of
plant in the future.
KEY WORDS: Scientists, animals, biodiversity,
species, plants, plants, survive, varieties, different,
nutrients, grow, protect, seed bank
A picture of a habitat with high biodiversity
Before the asteroid hit we could have saved
these areas of beauty by not producing so
much______________________, not cutting
down_______________, banning illegal
_______________, and by reducing our
other impacts on the planet using methods
such as ______________________________
or _________________________________.
[can you think of any others?]
[KEY WORDS: recycling, trees, pollution, hunting]
Our reporter from Norway discusses why we
may want to maintain plant biodiversity in
the future: ___________________________
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