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 ____________________
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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?