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Planet Earth Video Activities
Total: 100 Points
Choose 10 of the following questions to answer on a separate sheet of paper.
Preview the questions before watching the videos so that you can take notes.
1) What was YOUR favorite video? Please explain in 6-8 sentences why you liked it.
2) Pick one biome and discuss some of the adaptations or strategies the plants and/or
animals have evolved in order to survive there. Use AT LEAST 3 specific examples.
3) Many different food chains were shown in all the videos. Choose one that included
AT LEAST 3 trophic levels. Write out the food chain, label levels and organisms,
and draw arrows showing energy transfer.
4) Give one example for each of the following relationships from any video:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism
Competition
Predation
Cannibalism
Mimicry
5) Animals reproduce in order to pass their genetic material on to the next generation.
The survival of the young is vital (extremely important). The amount of parental
care varies, depending on the species. Give one example for each of the
following:
a.
b.
c.
No parental care
Partial parental care (by either mother or father).
Full parental care
6) In order to survive, animals need food, water, shelter, and space. Describe the
habitats of a primary consumer AND a secondary consumer that were in any of
the videos.
7) Name one animal that has evolved an extreme survival strategy and explain its
strategy.
8) In most animal species, females select the male with the best genes to mate with.
Males must impress the female and their techniques are often ordinary, some are
strange, and some are completely bizarre. Give 3 examples of how a male
impresses a female from any of the videos.
9) Biomes sometimes overlap and change from season to season. Name one animal
that can be seen in multiple biomes and explain why you think organism is able to
do this.
10)Compare and contrast a land (terrestrial) biome and a marine or freshwater biome.
Provide at least 4 examples.
11)Which biome do YOU consider to be the most diverse (in flora, fauna, or both) and
the least diverse? Explain using at least 2 pieces of evidence.
12)Which biome do YOU consider to be the most nutrient rich (food supply) and the
least nutrient rich?
13)If YOU could be any animal from the Planet Earth videos for 1 week, which one
would you choose and explain why. What biome would you live in?
14)Animals have different mating relationships. Give one example from any video of the
following:
a.
b.
Monogamy (stay with 1 partner)
Polygamy (new mate every time)
15)Which biome do YOU feel experiences succession on a regular basis? Explain using
at least 3 examples.