Biodiversity

media type="custom" key="20472834" align="center" LI: Understand, identify and describe my own habitat. LI: Identify and describe the similarities between my own habitat and animal habitats.

__Activity 1:__ Close your eyes and imagine.

Visualise your home. How many windows does it have? What colour is it? What features does it have? __Activity 2:__ Complete your habitat on a piece of paper. Draw your home with detail. Write my habitat at the top of the page.

Therefore: Home = Habitat We have a home and it can also be called our habitat. Animals also live a habitat. Can you give me some examples of their habitat? Birds - live in nests. Cats - live in a house.

Q 1: Why is your home or habitat important to you?

Answer: It provides us with shelter, protection, food, water, warmth, bed to sleep on and many more.

__Activity 3:__ Place habitats on paper.

Q1: What is missing to make it a town or city? Ans: To make it a home we need to have

Therefore: Habitats + Habitats = Town Therefore: Town = Ecosystem Ecosystem = The community of all living organisms and/or non-living things interacting as a system.

Q2: Describe how they get along/interact.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 170%;">Therefore: Habitats + Towns = Survival

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">People live in Town or Cities, what do animals and plant call the place that they live?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">They call it their 'Ecosystems'. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">When we are all together we call it the 'Urban Ecosystems'.













<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Biological =


 * 1) <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Relating to biology or living organisms.
 * 2) <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Genetically related.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Diversity =
 * 1) <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Being diverse; having variety.
 * 2) <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">A range of different things.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">Biodiversity <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Understanding that biodiversity is the variety of life on earth, and the variety of ecosystems which support that life.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Activity: With your shoulder partner, find the definitions for these words and use it in a sentence.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Biodiversity /Biosecurity
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Endangered Species / Pests
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Environment
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">D.O.C
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">M.A.F
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">W.W.F
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">carnivore, herbivore, decomposer, producer, ecosystem, energy chain, extinct, pest, predator, environment, native