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Webquest Biodiversity b-0

This document provides directions for a web quest on biodiversity. Students are asked to research different topics on biodiversity by visiting a website. They will learn about the three types of biodiversity and seven reasons why it is important. Students will also read about threats to biodiversity like loss of coral reefs in the Bahamas, deforestation in Madagascar, and reasons why species are becoming extinct. The web quest aims to teach students about preserving biodiversity through individual actions and importance of ecosystems like those in Madagascar and Australia.

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Webquest Biodiversity b-0

This document provides directions for a web quest on biodiversity. Students are asked to research different topics on biodiversity by visiting a website. They will learn about the three types of biodiversity and seven reasons why it is important. Students will also read about threats to biodiversity like loss of coral reefs in the Bahamas, deforestation in Madagascar, and reasons why species are becoming extinct. The web quest aims to teach students about preserving biodiversity through individual actions and importance of ecosystems like those in Madagascar and Australia.

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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
Name ____________________________ Date ___________ Period ______ Score _____

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 _____

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