Biodiversity
AP Objective Sheet Chapters 9, 10, 4, 5
Name ________________________
Date ____________ Pd __________
1. What are the three descriptions of biodiversity?
2. What is the difference between threatened, endangered, and extinct?
3. 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?
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.
Mon
Tue
Wed Oct 21
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Fri Oct 23
 Review
Chapter 4 & 5
 Case studies
 HW Objs 1-10
Mon Oct 27
Tue Oct 28
Mon Nov 3
 Hand out Lab
 Stamp Objs 110
 HW Objs 1120
 Chapter 9
 Case studies
Tue Nov 4
Wed Oct 29
Tue Nov 11
Chapter 9:
background extinction rate
biological extinction
endangered species
HIPPCO
precautionary principle
threatened (vulnerable) species
extinction rate
habitat fragmentation
Chapter 10:
biodiversity hotspots
Thur Oct 30
Fri Oct 31
 Stamp
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Objectives
 HW Objs 2131
 Chapter 10
 Case studies
Wed Nov 5
 Review
 HW:
Endangered
Species card
Mon Nov 10
Thur Oct 22
Thur Nov 6
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Wed Nov 12
Fri Nov 7
TEST
Lab due
All Objs due
Endangered
species card
due
Thur Nov 13
Fri Nov 14
commercial forest
ecological restoration
old-growth forests
overgrazing
pastures
rangelands
reconciliation ecology
second-growth forests
tree plantation (farm)
undergrazing
wilderness
Chapter 4:
adaptation
adaptive trait
background extinction
biological diversity
biological evolution
differential reproduction
ecological niche
endemic species
extinction
fossils
foundation species
generalist species
Chapter 5:
age structure
carrying capacity
coevolution
commensalism
ecological succession
environmental resistance
inertia
interspecific competition
limiting factor
limiting factor principle
mutualism
parasitism
persistence
population
population crash
population density
predation
predator-prey relationship
primary ecological succession
range of tolerance
resilience
resource partitioning
secondary ecological
succession