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What is biodiversity?

ما التنوع الحيوي؟

Understanding biodiversity as the diversity of life on Earth, and how variety within a species is essential for its survival.

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Curriculum expectations

  • B2.2 — demonstrate an understanding of biodiversity as the diversity of life on Earth, including the diversity of organisms within species, among species in a community, and among communities and the habitats that support them
  • B2.3 — describe ways in which biodiversity within species is essential for their survival

Brief

This lesson asks you to understand biodiversity as the diversity of life on Earth: the variety of organisms within a species, among the species of a community, and among communities and the habitats that support them. It also asks you to describe how variety within a species is essential for its survival. The museum holds no record that serves these expectations yet, so this lesson offers none; your class brings its own examples and sources. 1

What differs?

Choose a kind of living thing you know, such as a tree, a cat or a bird. List three ways two individuals of that kind differ from each other, then three ways that kind differs from another kind. Which list shows variety within a species, and which shows variety among species?

Sources

  1. Ontario Ministry of Education, The Ontario Curriculum: Science and Technology, Grades 1–8 (2022)
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islam.museum contributors. “What is biodiversity?”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/course/ca-on-g6-sci-bio-1/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-14.

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