1. Biodiversity
5th Grade

2. Biodiversity = the variation of life
Beside the Animal Kingdom, what are the other 4 kingdoms?

3. Kingdoms Animal Kingdom Plant Kingdom Fungus Kingdom Protist Kingdom
Bacteria Kingdom

4. What are Bacteria? Microscopic organisms Uni-celled organisms (1 cell)
Their DNA is NOT inside a nucleus
Can be producers, consumers, AND decomposers

5. Bacteria
Some can produce Endospores: a structure that protects them when environmental conditions are too harsh
This helps them to survive hundreds of years

6. 3 kinds of Bacteria: Cocci = sphere-shaped Bacilli = rod-shaped
Spirilla = spiral-shaped

9. Did you know? Bacteria is helpful AND harmful
Antibiotics = bacteria that produce chemicals that limit the growth or kill other bacteria
Pathogen = bacteria that causes disease
Ex. bacteria that grows in your mouth causes tooth decay –these bacteria grow on the surface of your teeth and use sugar as food

10. Examples of Bacterial Infections:
Whooping cough
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Strep Throat

11. What are the differences between bacteria and viruses?
Antibiotic drugs kill bacteria
Antibiotic drugs are NOT effective against viruses
When a virus enters your body, it invades some of your cells and takes over the cell machinery, redirecting them to produce the virus

12. Is the common cold a bacterial infection or a virus?

13. Is chickenpox a bacterial infection or a virus?

14. Bacteria vs Virus:

15. Protist:
Uni- or multi-celled organism that lives in moist or wet surroundings
HAS a nucleus
There are plant-like AND animal-like protists
Examples of protists:
algae, protozoans

16. Plant-like Protists Use sunlight to make their food
But do NOT have roots, stems, and leaves like other plants
Each algae cell has to make food

17. Animal-like Protist

18. Protist example:
Example:
Malaria

19. Fungus Multi-cellular
Like plants, they have cell walls, but unlike plants, fungi do NOT have specialized tissues and organs like leaves and roots
HAVE a nucleus
do NOT make their own food –no chlorophyll
Grow in warm, humid areas

20. Fungus = Athlete’s foot

21. Fungi = known as the “great decomposers”

22. Baker’s Yeast = Fungus Feeds on sugars in flour dough
Causes carbon dioxide to rise
Bread would be flat without this fungus

23. Fungi examples:
*Mushrooms *Mildew *Mold *Yeast

24. What is the difference between mold and mildew?
Mold typically grows on food
Mildew typically grows on fabric, bathroom walls, other damp surfaces
Ex. If you leave your clothes in the washer too long and forget to put them in the drier, they may smell terrible and you have to re-wash them

25. Mold:
Mildew: