Biology  by Bradford
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Biodiversity and disruptions: grass skirts

10 quick questions on AP Biology topics 8.6 Biodiversity and 8.7 Disruptions in Ecosystems, 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

  1. SnipA runner cuts one strip off the bottom of their team’s sheet.
  2. Answer as a pairBack at the table, they write the answer on the strip. No books.
  3. Get it checkedThe checker reads it against the key: you, or a student holding it.
  4. 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.
  1. Variety of life at all levels
  2. Non-native organism that spreads harmfully
  3. Earth heating from extra greenhouse gas
  4. Outsized impact relative to its numbers
  5. Ability to recover after disturbance
  6. Colonization of bare rock with no soil
  7. Regrowth after fire where soil is left
  8. Recurring Pacific shift hurting fisheries
  9. Algal bloom from excess nutrient runoff
  10. Toxins concentrating up the food chain

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