Biodiversity Documentary - Earth Day

What is biodiversity?

• the variation of animals that exist on Earth

• the variation of all kinds of life that exists on Earth

• the variation of individuals within the human population

• The variation of plant species within an ecosystem

Biodiversity depletion...

• Occurs naturally

• Didn't exist before human impact

• is a positive phenomenon that we should strive towards

• Does not exist

Which is NOT one of the essential conditions for life that biodiversity provides?

• Clean air

• Unstable temperatures within an environment

• Fresh Water

• Food

Plants create their own food from sunlight using a process called _______

• Mitosis

• Biodiversity

• Photosynthesis

• Cellular Respiration

The tiny, often microscopic organisms that float freely in the ocean

• Plankton

• Fish

• Insects

Bees help flowers because...

• They make honey

• They carry pollen from flower to flower

• They feed from the flowers' nectar

• They use their stingers to protect the flowers

Bees pollinate ____% of the crops humans eat around the world

• 30%

• 50%

• 70%

• 90%

Bees mainly food for all of these organisms EXCEPT

• Spiders

• Frogs

• Birds

• Foxes

Due to their role in breaking down dead organic material, bacteria and fungi are called _______

• Decomposers

• Detritivores

• Carnivores

• Herbivores

The film referred to _______ as "nature's way of recycling" since it releases nutrients and energy back into the environment.

• biodiversity

• decomposition

• photosynthesis

• industrialism