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1 Biodiversity and Adaptation to the Environment Visit the following website: 1. How many different species of living organism have been discovered on earth? How many more species are thought to exist? 2. Define SPECIES DIVERSITY: 3. What is one way that species diversity can be measured? 4. Complete the following table: Category of Living Organism Bacteria Algae & Protozoa Fungi Plants Animals TOTAL NUMBER OF KNOWN SPECIES: Number of known species 5. What is the most diverse group of living things? 6. Where are most species that live on land found? 7. What are some of the conditions along the equator that support a wide variety of life forms? 8. How do the number of tree species found in Borneo, near the equator, compare to the number of tree species found in the United States and Canada, not near the equator? What conditions in the U.S. and Canada help explain why there are fewer tree species there? CLICK NEXT

2 9. Define GENETIC DIVERSITY: 10. List several genetic traits in humans that can be passed from parents to offspring: A POPULATION is a group of organisms of one species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time. 11. How does the genetic diversity of a large population or organisms compare to that of a small population? What can happen to species with a small population that makes it difficult for the species to survive? Give two examples of species that suffer from a lack of genetic diversity. Click Earth Floor on the top menu. Then click Adaptation 12. What do individual adaptations allow plants and animals to do? 13. How are sharks and trees adapted to their environments? Click on Environments Change 14. Do all of the environments on earth change over time? 15. How do scientists think the environment of California will change over the next 10 million years? 16. How has the area around the great lakes changed in the last 12,000 years? 17. How do fast changes in the environment affect life forms compared to slow changes?

3 PHYSICAL ADAPTATION 18. List some of the common features of land animals that enable them to live on land: 19. How were the teeth of dinosaurs adapted to the food they ate? Visit this BBC site and gather information about each of the following ways in which animals have adapted to their environment. Explain what the adaptation is, give an example of an animal that has the adaptation, and discuss how the adaptation helps the animal survive. 20. Adaptation of Behavioral pattern 21. Adaptation of Communication and Senses 22. Adaptation of Development 23. Adaptation of Ecosystem Role

4 24. Adaptation of Feeding Habits 25. Adaptation of Locomotion 26. Adaptation of Morphology 27. Adaptation of Predation 28. Adaptation of Reproduction 29. Adaptation of Social Behavior

5 Adaptation to the Environment - BIOMES Visit the following website: Click Earth Floor on the top menu. Then click BIOMES 30. What is a BIOME? Click Arctic Tundra read the web page and then click NEXT 31. What are 2 ways that animals living in the Tundra adapt to the condition by changing their behavior? Explain. 32. What are 2 ways that Musk Oxen adapt physically to the environment of the Tundra? Explain What are 2 ways that plants have adapted to life in the Tundra? Explain. The Deciduous Forest 35. What does deciduous mean? 36. What are 2 ways that animals have adapted to life in the Deciduous Forest? 37. How have plants adapted to life in the deciduous forest? List 2 examples and explain.

6 38. List some characteristics of a desert environment:

7 Biodiversity and Adaptation to the Environment Visit the following website: 1. How many different species of living organism have been discovered on earth? How many more species are thought to exist? 2. Define SPECIES DIVERSITY: 3. What is one way that species diversity can be measured? 4. Complete the following table: Category of Living Organism Bacteria Algae & Protozoa Fungi Plants Animals TOTAL NUMBER OF KNOWN SPECIES: Number of known species 5. What is the most diverse group of living things? 6. Where are most species that live on land found? 7. What are some of the conditions along the equator that support a wide variety of life forms? 8. How do the number of tree species found in Borneo, near the equator, compare to the number of tree species found in the United States and Canada, not near the equator? What conditions in the U.S. and Canada help explain why there are fewer tree species there? CLICK NEXT

8 9. Define GENETIC DIVERSITY: 10. List several genetic traits in humans that can be passed from parents to offspring: A POPULATION is a group of organisms of one species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time. 11. How does the genetic diversity of a large population or organisms compare to that of a small population? What can happen to species with a small population that makes it difficult for the species to survive? Give two examples of species that suffer from a lack of genetic diversity. Click Earth Floor on the top menu. Then click Adaptation 12. What do individual adaptations allow plants and animals to do? 13. How are sharks and trees adapted to their environments? Click on Environments Change 14. Do all of the environments on earth change over time? 15. How do scientists think the environment of California will change over the next 10 million years? 16. How has the area around the great lakes changed in the last 12,000 years? 17. How do fast changes in the environment affect life forms compared to slow changes?

9 PHYSICAL ADAPTATION 18. List some of the common features of land animals that enable them to live on land: 19. How were the teeth of dinosaurs adapted to the food they ate? Visit this BBC site and gather information about each of the following ways in which animals have adapted to their environment. Explain what the adaptation is, give an example of an animal that has the adaptation, and discuss how the adaptation helps the animal survive. 20. Adaptation of Behavioral pattern 21. Adaptation of Communication and Senses 22. Adaptation of Development 23. Adaptation of Ecosystem Role

10 24. Adaptation of Feeding Habits 25. Adaptation of Locomotion 26. Adaptation of Morphology 27. Adaptation of Predation 28. Adaptation of Reproduction 29. Adaptation of Social Behavior

11 Adaptation to the Environment - BIOMES Visit the following website: Click Earth Floor on the top menu. Then click BIOMES 30. What is a BIOME? Click Arctic Tundra read the web page and then click NEXT 31. What are 2 ways that animals living in the Tundra adapt to the condition by changing their behavior? Explain. 32. What are 2 ways that Musk Oxen adapt physically to the environment of the Tundra? Explain What are 2 ways that plants have adapted to life in the Tundra? Explain. The Deciduous Forest 35. What does deciduous mean? 36. What are 2 ways that animals have adapted to life in the Deciduous Forest? 37. How have plants adapted to life in the deciduous forest? List 2 examples and explain.

12 38. List some characteristics of a desert environment:

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