Biodiversity Web Quest

Everything Counts
Name ____________________________ Date ___________ Period ______ Score _____

Directions:
Working with your lab partner and the web page titled Biodiversity Everything
Counts http://www.amnh.org/explore/ology
What Is the Big Idea? (dont forget to use the next button in this section)
1. What is biodiversity and how many types are there?

2. Why is biodiversity so important anyway? List seven reasons why biodiversity

is so important.

3. What can you do to help preserve biodiversity?

Saving Species
4. Scientist are not finding a diverse population of organism on the coral reefs in
the Bahamas, why?

5. What is so unique about Madagascars ecosystem?

6. What is happening to the forest of Madagascar and what is the outcome?

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Everything Counts
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7. Why is saving the biodiversity on Madagascar so important?

8. Why does Australia have such an unusual variety of spiders?

Going Going Gone

9. What are five reasons species are becoming extinct? Explain how

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What does it mean for a species to be extinct? Give an example

11. How do invasive species travel or spread to a different ecosystem? Give an

example.

Dzanga - Sangha (come back to if you have time)

12. Read about BaAka and then read the directions on how to play Connect the
Dots. You are done when you have gone through each habitat.
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Everything Counts
Name ____________________________ Date ___________ Period ______ Score _____