Download Biodiversity Webquest

Biodiversity Web Quest
“Everything Counts”
Name: ___________________
Period: __________________
Date: _________
Web Quest
Directions:
Working with your lab partner and the web page titled “Biodiversity Everything Counts”
(http://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/biodiversity#http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/bigideas_bio)
Use the website to the following questions for evidence of your mastery of the site’s topics.
What Is the Big Idea? (don’t 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 Madagascar’s ecosystem?
6. What is happening to the forest of Madagascar and what is the outcome?
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?
10. What does it mean for a species to be extinct?
11. How do invasive species travel or spread to a different ecosystem?
Dzanga - Sangha
12. Read about BaAka and then read the directions on how to play “Connect the Dots.”
and learn. You are done when you have gone through each habitat.
Have fun