Biology by Bradford
A4.2 Conservation of biodiversity: grass skirts
21 quick questions on conservation of biodiversity, each answered in a word or two. Print a sheet for each team, a key for the checker and a tick sheet, then tape the sheets to the board and race.
How it runs
- SnipA runner cuts one strip off the bottom of their team’s sheet.
- Answer as a pairBack at the table, they write the answer on the strip. No books.
- Get it checkedThe checker reads it against the key: you, or a student holding it.
- Back for the nextA tick earns the next strip. Wrong? Back to the table to try again.
The questions on this sheet
The checker’s key, with every answer, prints with the sheets.- Variety of life at all its levels
- Range of alleles within one species
- Variety of habitats in a region
- Sudden loss of most species, five so far
- Clearing trees for farms, roads or timber
- Introduced organism that harms natives
- Global register of threatened species
- Surveys done by volunteers, not experts
- Protecting organisms in their wild habitat
- Protecting organisms away from the wild
- Protected area managed for wildlife
- Living plant collection, open to visitors
- Caused by human activity
- Flightless NZ bird hunted to extinction
- Mammal of warm seas wiped out for its oil
- SE Asian hardwoods with two-winged seeds
- Splitting land into small isolated patches
- Harvesting faster than numbers recover
- Cold vault storing dormant plant embryos
- Bringing back wolves and natural grazing
- Evolutionarily distinct and endangered