1. Aim # 72: How does biodiversity increase stability in an ecosystem?
Date: May 4th, 2017
Aim # 72: How does biodiversity increase stability in an ecosystem?
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2. Aim #72: How does biodiversity increase the stability in an ecosystem?

3. 1) What is meant by the “Circle of Life”?
All living things are dependent on one another
Why is this important?

4. 2) Why are there so many different species on earth?
Due to the evolution of related organisms ADAPTING TO different environments

5. All the VARIETY OF living things of a specific area
3) What is Biodiversity
All the VARIETY OF living things of a specific area

6. Look for the biodiversity of the soil

7. 4) Why is biodiversity important?
What happens
If insecticide
Is sprayed?
All living things are interdependent on one another

8. How do living things depended on each other?
All organisms are interrelated by the food web. If one organism in the food web decreases, then others will either increase or decrease

9. 5) What happens to an ecosystem when biodiversity decreases?
Ecosystem stability decreases
Stability – the ability of the different populations of
organisms to survive an environmental change.

10. 6) How does great biodiversity maintain ecosystem stability?
In an ecosystem with great biodiversity, organisms rely on more than one type of food, increasing their stability.

11. 7) Which ecosystem has greater stability?
The forest has greater stability because it has greater biodiversity

12. 8) How is biodiversity lost?
Natural disaster & human activities

13. 9) Why is biodiversity important to us?
Biodiversity is a source of medicine, genetic variation and insect & weather resistant crops

14. Amoeba Sisters Food Chains and Food Webs: Bedrock of Biodiversity