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    Biodiversity refers to the variety of life forms on Earth, including plants, animals, and microorganisms. It is important because it provides ecosystem services like producing oxygen and absorbing carbon dioxide. Without keystone species, ecosystems would dramatically change or cease to exist altogether. Keystone species play unique roles in ecosystem function. Examples include prairie dogs, which aerate soil and provide habitat, and sea otters, which maintain kelp forest ecosystems through their predation of sea urchins. Loss of a keystone species like salmon could collapse food webs.

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    Biodiversity refers to the variety of life forms on Earth, including plants, animals, and microorganisms. It is important because it provides ecosystem services like producing oxygen and absorbing carbon dioxide. Without keystone species, ecosystems would dramatically change or cease to exist altogether. Keystone species play unique roles in ecosystem function. Examples include prairie dogs, which aerate soil and provide habitat, and sea otters, which maintain kelp forest ecosystems through their predation of sea urchins. Loss of a keystone species like salmon could collapse food webs.

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    1) Biodiversity Worksheet

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    Biodiversity refers to the variety of life forms on Earth, including plants, animals, and microorganisms. It is important because it provides ecosystem services like producing oxygen and absorbing carbon dioxide. Without keystone species, ecosystems would dramatically change or cease to exist altogether. Keystone species play unique roles in ecosystem function. Examples include prairie dogs, which aerate soil and provide habitat, and sea otters, which maintain kelp forest ecosystems through their predation of sea urchins. Loss of a keystone species like salmon could collapse food webs.

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    Biodiversity Name: __________________________

    1) What is Biodiversity?

    - Biodiversity is

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    2) Why is it important?
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    Keystone Species

    A keystone species is a plant or animal that plays a unique and crucial role in the way an ecosystem functions.
    Without keystone species, the ecosystem would be dramatically different or cease to exist altogether.

    3) Draw a simple food web using the following organisms: sun, bear, eagle, mosquito, rat, snail, killer whale,
    marsh plants, and salmon. Start by placing salmon in the center.

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    4) What do you think would happen if harmful pollution killed off all the salmon?
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    Go to http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/keystone-species/?ar_a=1, also found


    on my SWIFT Links Page. Read the article, and answer the questions that follow.

    5) Why are the following considered Keystone species? What impact do they have on the ecosystem?

    a) Prairie Dogs
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    b) African Elephants
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    c) Sea Otters
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    d) Hummingbirds
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    e) Mountain Lions
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    f) Sea Stars
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    6) What is another example of a keystone species in the Pacific Northwest?

    7) What is a foundation species? Explain and provide an example.

    8) What is an umbrella species? Explain and provide an example.

    9) What is an indicator species? Explain and provide an example.

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