Berdin, Mary France T.

Renta, Ryan Nicolas P.

Vasquez, Edward P.

LESSON: BIODIVERSITY

GROUP ACTIVITY: CONCEPT MAPPING (2-3 members/group)

1. List down several concepts that the society or human beings benefit from biodiversity. On the
other circle, enumerate the different challenges and disadvantages that biodiversity suffers as
we work our way to acquire the benefits.

2. On the space where the two circles meet, list down the possible ways and strategies on how we
could acquire these benefits and needs without compromising the growth process of
biodiversity

Benefits from biodiversity

Challenges and disadvantages
that biodiversity suffers

Strategies

 Increases ecosystem’s
productivity that supports
different species of plants
and animals from which
humans get their needs
such as food, medicine and
materials to build homes
 Protects fresh water
resources where humans
get what they drink
 Aids in recovery from
natural disasters, and in
breaking down pollutants,
and contribute to climate
stability.
 Provides inspiration,
education, recreation,
aesthetics, traditional
knowledge, and
opportunities for scientific
discovery to humans
exposed to it
(biodiversity).
 Reducing in size at an
 Produce renewable energy
exponential rate due to
such as solar energy and wind
natural causes such as climate
energy to reduce pollution
change; and artificial causes
and sustain nonrenewable
such as pollution and man-
resources
made disasters.
 Protect forests especially rain
 Large Scale industrialization of
forests through creating laws
areas filled with delicate
that forbid its destruction (like
habitats of animals and
logging, mining, and
plants.
urbanization)
 Deforestation, mining, and
 Increase green spaces such as
urbanization cause landslides,
parks, forests, lakes and other
poisoning of rivers, and loss of
ecosystems in urban areas
shelter of wildlife animals
 Reduce the use of plastics
 Burning of fossil fuels cause
through replacing them with
ocean acidification which
eco-friendly materials such as
damages coral reefs
wooden spoons, eco bags
instead of plastic bags,
tumblers instead of plastic
bottles, eco-friendly
packaging, etc.