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Based on Bill Nye's video on Biodiversity, Help plz!!!

1. All environments on Earth are crowded with ___________________________
2. Healthy ecosystems contain both ______________ and _____-________________ parts.
3. Describe what Bill Nye was trying to demonstrate by removing some of the blocks in his tower of blocks.



4. What does the expression “You pick a flower without jiggling a star” say about ecosystems?



5. In “Consider the Following,” Bill Nye makes a special request to not spread out our development projects. WHY?




6. Name at least two (2) species that have gone extinct.

7. The “best way to wipe out a species” is to change its ______________________
8. The largest ecosystem in the world iis ___________________, where (how many) ____________ of all species live.
9. Name five (5) things you can do to guarantee biodiversity.



10. Of the 30,000,000 speices on Earth, how many are lost each HOUR? _________
11. In conclusion, Bill Nye states that “As more and more species disappear, it’s harder and harder to keep and ecosystem in balance because we don’t know WHAT?


12. To keep our ecosystem healthy, we must keep our ____________________


Page 21: This is a summative grade.
1. How many species go extinct every day?
2. Does species diversity follow any patterns?
3. What is a biodiversity hotspot?
4. Why are so many species disappearing?
5. How is biodiversity measured?
6. What is biodiversity?
7. What are the world’s rarest species?
8. How many species go extinct every day?

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Step-by-step explanation:

  1. life
  2. living,non-living
  3. Many species are going extinct, and their loss affects the balance of other living things
  4. everything effects everything else
  5. try limiting our impact on the environment
  6. dodo bird , passenger pigeon
  7. natural habitat
  8. the ocean , 2/3
  9. buying Eco friendly appliances , recycle as much as we can , reuse products , reduce buying products that pollute
  10. 17
  11. we don't know that species are needed for our survival
  12. biodiversity
  13. 1. 150
  14. 2. The diversity of species is lowest at the poles and increases toward the equator, with the deserts being obvious exceptions.
  15. 3. biographic region of significant biodiversity
  16. 4. because of the changes caused to earth
  17. 5.through species richness and the number of species in a given area
  18. 6.the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat
  19. 7. Giant otter, black-footed ferret
  20. 8.150

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