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    The document discusses biodiversity and its importance. It explains that fossils provide information about the history of life on Earth, but fossils represent only 1% of all species that have ever lived. Tectonic plate movement has significantly impacted biodiversity by influencing climate through shifting continents and allowing species to move and adapt, leading to new species through natural selection. Species diversity refers to the variety and abundance of species in a community, and more diverse ecosystems tend to be more productive.

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    ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE =========================================

    The earth changes over time and that includes all


    WHAT TO LEARN the living things. The history of life is deep and
    complex. Most of what we know on the history of
    • BIODIVERSITY AND ITS IMPORTANCE life comes from fossils, these are mineralized or
    • CHANGES IN EARTH’S LIFE petrified replicas parts of organisms found in rocks.
    This how scientist study the ancient life. And this
    • HOW GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES AFFECTS fossils founds are 1% of all the species have ever
    BIODIVERSITY lived on earth.
    • HOW CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS BIODIVERSITY =========================================
    • DIFFERENTIATE ECOSYSTEM AND BIOME The earth’s surface has changed dramatically over
    time. The changes have been observed when a
    • SPECIATION AND EXTINCTION huge flow of molten rock within the earth’s breaks
    • BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION into the surface into a series of extremely huge
    plates, called tectonic plates. This extremely huge
    • THEORY OF EVOLUTION plates are drifting slowly away from each other.
    • ECOLOGICAL NICHE =========================================
    • GENERALIST VS SPECIALIST SPECIES TWO SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS OF TECTONIC PLATE
    PROCESS ON BIODIVERSITY ESPECIALLY ON
    • THE HUMAN ACTIVITIES THAT AFFECTS BIODIVERSITY
    EVOLUTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF LIFE ON EARTH.
    • FOUR MAJOR COMPONENTS OF DIVERSITY
    1.) The location of the continents (latitude) and
    • CHARLES DARWIN THEORY ocean basins which have greatly influenced the
    earth’s climate.
    • ADAPTATION AND MUTATION
    2.) The movement of the continents allow the
    • TWO TYPES OF ISOLATION species to move, adapt to its new environment and
    produce new species through natural selection.
    • EXTINCTION
    Same with the changes in earth’s surface, the
    • MASS EXTINCTION ON EARTH climate of earth drastically changed also. These
    long-term changes have a major effect on
    • KEYSTONE SPECIES biological evolution. It determines the where
    different organism can survive and thrive.
    • FOUNDATION SPECIES
    =========================================
    • NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPECIES
    SPECIES DIVERSITY
    =========================================
    An important characteristic of a community to
    EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY
    which ecosystem it is belong. This includes the
    We get our resources to support our needs and variety (species richness) and abundance of
    wants from the environment and because of species (species evenness). Based on the
    excessive human activities, the ecosystems found in researches of different ecologists, it suggests the
    our environment our disturbed and destroyed. following the more diverse the ecosystem is, the
    Ecosystems need balance to continue its processes more productive it will be.
    they provided to all living things. One of the
    resources that are seriously affected is biodiversity.

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    BIODIVERSITY

    One of the important resources in an ecosystem. It


    is the variety of organisms on earth. Every organism
    is a member of a certain species. This is a certain
    group of animals that can mate and produce fertile
    offspring.

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