Unit A Section 1.1

Question 1

Biological diversity

Answer 1

refers to all the different types of organisms on Earth.

Question 2

What happens in an ecosystem?

Answer 2

In an ecosystem, living (biotic) things interact with other living and nonliving (abiotic) things in a shared environment.

Question 3

What are biotic factors:

Answer 3

Animals and plants

Question 4

What are Abiotic factors:

Answer 4

air, water, and sunlight.

Question 5

What types of living things are in a boreal forest?

Answer 5

These woodland caribou share a boreal forest
an ecosystem with mosses, lichens, pine trees, black spruce white spruce, poplars, wolves, grizzlies, wolverines, lynx, and a variety of birds.

Question 6

What types of living things are in a prairie slough?

Answer 6

This prairie slough teems with life such as

dragonflies, mosquitoes, mallards and ruddy ducks, red wing blackbirds, bulrushes, sedge, and muskrats.

Question 7

What are the six Albertan regions

Answer 7

Canadian Shield Natural Region, the Boreal Forest Natural Region, the Foothills Natural Region, the Rocky Mountain Natural Region, the Parkland Natural Region, and the Grassland Natural Region.

Question 8

What is a population?

Answer 8

When members of a species live in a specific area and share the same resources, these individuals form a population.

Ex. magpies in park

Question 9

What is a community?

Answer 9

When populations of different

species live in the same area, these populations form a community

Question 10

The community is the biotic

component of an ecosystem

Answer 10

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Question 11

What is a species

Answer 11

A species is a group of organisms that all have the same basic structure.

Question 12

What does genetic diversity refer to:

Answer 12

Genetic diversity refers to the variations between members of a population.

In any population, these variations are, for the most part, caused by subtle variations in the cells of the organisms.

Question 13

Example of an organism that has a lot of genetic diversity:

Answer 13

banded snail. Members of this species show a tremendous amount of variation in shell coloring as well as the banding on their shells. The colour can
range from yellow to brown, and the bands on the shell can range from no bands to bands covering the whole of the shell.

Question 14

Are variations always visible within a species

Answer 14

Some variations between individuals aren’t even visible. For example, all human blood looks the same, but it can be classified into blood types.

Question 15

What are the four basic blood types:

Answer 15

A, B, AB, or O.

Question 16

Species Distribution:

Why are the species on our planet not distributed equally:

Answer 16

-Areas around the equator have the greatest number of plant species.
-The number of plant and animal species is greatest in
tropical regions. So the tropical rain forests in equatorial regions contain the greatest biological diversity.
-As you move north to the temperate and then the polar regions, you will find less biological diversity.
-The Arctic and Antarctic regions contain the lowest
biological diversity.

Question 17

What are the five classification systems:

Answer 17

• Kingdom
• Phylum/Subphylum
• Classes
• Orders
• Families
• Genus/ Genera

Question 18

How did Linnaeus name organisms in Latin:

Answer 18

Linnaeus arranged species into groups based on their physical structure rather than on their habitat, which earlier systems had done

Question 19

Why are coral reefs called the amazons of the ocean:

Answer 19

Coral reefs have been called the “amazons of the oceans” because of the richness of their species diversity. Like tropical rainforests, coral reefs support many different communities of organisms surviving on limited nutrients.

Question 20

Scientists have been using a five-kingdom classification system:

Answer 20

• Animalia (animals),
• Plantae (plants)
• Fungi (yeasts, molds, and mushrooms)
• Protista (most single-celled organisms)
• Monera (bacteria)

Question 21

What is the most successful life form:

Answer 21

insect

Question 22

What are the basic facts about living things

Answer 22

• All living things are made up of cells
• need energy
• grow and develop
• reproduce
• adapt to surroundings

Question 23

What is ecosystem diversity:

Answer 23

the different types of living communities and the environments, such as marshes, lakes, streams, and forests in which they are found.

Question 24

species diversity

Answer 24

occurs within individual organisms of the same species

Question 25

Who developed the two name Latin naming system

Answer 25

Carolus Linnaeus in the 18th century

1) the first represents the organism’s genus
2) the second represents the organisms particular species

Question 26

Which part of the ocean has a lot of diversity like tropical forests:

Answer 26

• Coral reefs have a great diversity of species

- Coral reefs support many different communities