1. Science Skills Summative
on Wednesday December 12 th!
That is NEXT WEEK!!
Class Website for Notes and Extra Credit Project:
https://sites.google.com/site/2555teacherandrew/home

2. Biodiversity (Science Skills)
Science Skills Class Code SC20210

3. Extra Credit Assignment
Be a Herpetologist for a Day
5 Points Due After Summative
This slide is on class website: https://sites.google.com/site/2555teacherandrew/home
Herpetology is the study of reptiles and amphibians
Project steps:
1) Find a WILD reptile or amphibian, look at it as close as you can. Get a
picture of it! (must be your own picture!!)
2) Go to webpage: http://bangkokherps.wordpress.com/
• Use the webpage to identify your species. FIND THE SCIENTIFIC
NAME, COMMON NAME, AND THAI NAME
• What is the animal’s contribution to the ecosystem?
• Is the animal dangerous??
3) Use wikipedia to find the names of the 7 taxonomic groups the species
belongs to (you already found the species name, so you need to find
domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus).
NO COPYING!! I WILL NOT ACCEPT COPIED WORK ON THIS!

4. What is Biodiversity?
Biodiversity – the number of species in an area
An area with high biodiversity has many species
An area with low biodiversity has fewer species
Which has greater biodiversity??

5. Why is Biodiversity Important?
Reasons why biodiversity is important:
1. Many jobs are linked to a nation’s biodiversity

6. Why is Biodiversity Important?
Reasons why biodiversity is important:
1. Many jobs are linked to a nation’s biodiversity
2. Tourists bring money to countries mainly to see its
biodiversity (plants and animals).

7. Why is Biodiversity Important?
Reasons why biodiversity is important:
1. Many jobs are linked to a nation’s biodiversity
2. Tourists bring money to countries mainly to see its
biodiversity (plants and animals).
3. Many products and medicines we use come from our
biodiversity.
Food
Medicines
Furniture and Shelter
Clothes

8. Why is Biodiversity Important?
Reasons why biodiversity is important:
1. Many jobs are linked to a nation’s biodiversity
2. Tourists bring money to countries mainly to see its
biodiversity (plants and animals).
3. Many products and medicines we use come from our
biodiversity.
4. Biodiversity gives us clean air and protects us from floods and
even global warming.
Plants also
help prevent
Our plant mud sliding
biodiversity during
turns CO2 floods
into oxygen

9. Biodiversity Hotspots
Hotspots – areas where there is a very high numbers of plants
and animals.
Hotspots are important because when you lose them, you lose a
large number of species.
These hotspots
are 2.3% of the
earth's land
surface, yet more
than 50 percent of
the world’s plant
species

10. Losing Hotspots
When we destroy hotspots, we lose many species of animals and plants
that were beneficial to us.

11. What can YOU do to
Protect Biodiversity?
The Three R’s:
1. Reduce = use the minimum you can
and do not waste.
2. Reuse = try to use things like bags
or bottles again before throwing
them away.
3. Recycle = try to recycle your trash.

12. What can YOU do to
Protect Biodiversity?
Put your trash in
the proper place.
Plastic is the
worst; it takes
many years for
plastics to
degrade.

13. What can YOU do to
Protect Biodiversity?
Protect your
local areas

14. What can YOU do to
Protect Biodiversity?
EDUCATE
YOURSELF!!
And think
about the
products you
are buying

15. Learning to Protect
Biodiversity Video

16. Questions
1. What is biodiversity?
2. What are 4 reasons why biodiversity is important?
3. What is a biodiversity hotspot?
4. Why are hotspots important?
5. What are 4 things you can do to protect biodiversity?
6. Why may eating shark fin soup be more harmful to biodiversity
than chicken soup?
7. What are the 3 R’s?
8. The less we use, the less we hurt our planet’s biodiversity. Tell me 3
things you can easily reduce the use of.