Name: ______________________________
Digital Lesson
Unit 5 Lesson 3: Biodiversity and classification due Friday Nov. 14
Directions to open digital lesson
a. Open Google chrome browser
b. Google search Think Central  Click on the first website
c. Select the information for country, state, district (Ft Bend Independent School Dist), and school (Lake
Olympia)
d. User name is 0 and your lunch number, password is student
e. Click on the library. Click on the Student resources.
f. Select Unit 5 lesson 3 digital lesson (click on the play button)
Slide 1: a. What’s the opposite of being organized? __________________________________________
b. Why is organization useful?
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Slide 2: Vocabulary
Habitat: __________________________________________________________________________________
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Biodiversity: ______________________________________________________________________________
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Sustainability: The ability of an ecosystem to remain same despite changing conditions.
Slide 3: a. Are all organisms made of many cells? Explain ___________________________________________
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b. Why might our body system called a walking ecosystem? ___________________________________
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Slide 4: Click on biodiversity
a. Areas of high biodiversity are _____________________ by changes such as physical disturbances.
b. In an area of high biodiversity, if a species __________________ in numbers, another species
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c. In an area of low biodiversity, there ________________________________________, which can
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Slide 5: a. What is species diversity?
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a. What is genetic biodiversity?
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a. Explain high genetic diversity.
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a. Explain low genetic diversity.
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a. High genetic biodiversity helps population ___________________________________________________.
b. Explain the importance of biodiversity in mustang.
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c. High species diversity makes place more __________________________________.
d. Explain how highly biodiversity area is resistant (not to be affected) to disturbance with the example of red
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e. Explain how low biodiversity increases risk such as cotton. ________________________________________
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F Explain how biodiversity protects against invasive species.
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g. Explain how biodiversity improves feeding relationships. _____________________________________
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h. Explain how high biodiversity protects against reduced population. _____________________________
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Slide 6. The benefits of high biodiversity are:
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The dangers of low biodiversity are:
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Slide 7: a. Why do polar environments have few organisms? ___________________________________
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b. Why does tropical environment have many organisms? ____________________________________
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C How are polar environments are adapted to cold?
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d. How can desert organisms live in hot, dry climates? ________________________________________
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e. Give an example of microhabitat.
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