Biodiversity Grade 5/6 Ontario curriculum

What is biodiversity?

• Everything

• All of the species we find in the water

• The variety of life on earth.

• a biome

What was the name of the Swedish scientist that created the system we use to classify plants and animals?

• Galileo

• Carl Linnaeus

• George Washington

• Robert Lavallee

Kangaroos are a part of what kingdom?

• Plant

• Animal

___________ is an example of a habitat.

• Desert

• Forest

• Mountains

• all of the above

A habitat is......

• the place/area/region that animals and plants live

• a habit

We classify species by.....

• Kingdom, species, family, class, genus, phylum, order

• Species, order, family, kindgom, genus, phylum, class

• kingdom, phylum, class, order, family genus, species

Which is an example of commensalism.

• Lion and a giraffe

• a tick and a dog

• a bird and a tree

• dog and a cat

What is a competition?

• the relationship between 2 species that are competing for the same resource.

• The relationship between two species where one is captured.

• Where one species benefits from the relationship.

What is an example of an invasive species?

• A mouse that invades a home

• A plant that chokes out other plants in a garden

• A dog

What happens when biodiversity is reduced?

• Various plant and animals will take over.

• Some animals may become extinct

• We will have less variety in our lives

• all of the above