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Biodiversity and Stewardship Insights
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Biodiversity and Stewardship Insights
🌿 Part 1: Understanding Biodiversity
1. What is biodiversity?
Only the number of different animals in an area
The variety of all living things and their environments
Just plants and trees in a forest
The size of an ecosystem
2. Which of these are ecosystem services? (Tick all that apply)
Bees pollinating crops
Forests cleaning the air
Building shopping centres
Wetlands filtering water
Trees preventing soil erosion
3. Complete this sentence: Healthy biodiversity helps ecosystems by ________________.
4. Give one example of how biodiversity provides resources for people:
🤝 Part 2: Social Benefits and Stewardship
5. Match each ecosystem service to its social benefit by drawing lines:
Pollination by insects
Forest carbon storage
Coastal mangroves
Native bush recreation areas
Mental health and tourism jobs
Protection from storm damage
Food security and farming income
Climate regulation
6. Lower ability: List two ways people benefit from healthy natural environments:
6. Higher ability: Explain the connection between biodiversity loss and impacts on human communities, using a specific example:
7. From a stewardship perspective, why should humans care for biodiversity?
Because we own all the animals
We are responsible for caring for creation
Only scientists need to worry about it
It doesn't really matter
🎯 Part 3: Analysis and Application
8. Scenario: A local wetland is being considered for development into a shopping centre. Using the table below, analyse the biodiversity impacts:
Ecosystem Services Lost: ________________
Social Benefits Lost: ________________
Stewardship Concern: ________________
9. Extension Activity (Advanced learners): Compare two scenarios - a healthy vs degraded ecosystem of your choice. Predict two knock-on effects for services and social benefits, then suggest one stewardship action:
10. Exit Ticket: Explain one benefit of healthy biodiversity to ecosystems and one social benefit to people. Include a short stewardship statement:
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