Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Grade 6•45 minutes•MS-LS2-5: Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Learning Objective
I can evaluate which design solution is best for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services, and explain my reasoning.
Practice Questions
This lesson includes 7 practice questions to reinforce learning.
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1. Explain the relationship between ecosystem diversity, species diversity, and genetic diversity. How do these three factors contribute to overall biodiversity?
2. Describe a scenario where a decrease in genetic diversity within a species could make an ecosystem more vulnerable to change.
3. What is a keystone species? Explain, using an example from the video or another example, how the removal of a keystone species can impact an ecosystem.
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Educational Video
Why is biodiversity so important? - Kim Preshoff
TED-Ed