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Mountain Mixer
Vocabulary
biodiversity— variety of living forms; three
major types of biodiversity are species, genetic,
and ecosystem diversity
carnivore— an animal that eats mostly meat
consumer— an organism that does not make
its own food (i.e., not a producer); there
are different types of consumers: primary
consumers eat producers, secondary consumers
eat primary consumers, and tertiary consumers
eat secondary consumers
ecosystem— all the living and nonliving
components found within a given area that
function together as a unit
energy— ability to do work; energy can take
many forms including heat and light
food web— an interconnected network of
feeding relationships
herbivore— an animal that eats only producers
keystone species— a species that has a large
fundamental influence on the types and
numbers of other species in an ecosystem despite
its relatively small numerical abundance
producer— an organism that is able to make
its own food (i.e., plants, algae)
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Materials/Preparation
Handout: True/False Quiz: Ecosystems &
Biodiversity, 1 per student pair
Handout: Mountain Mixer, 1 per student
(Optional) Clipboards for students to write
on Mountain Mixer handout while mingling
Ecosystem Role Cards, 1 per student in accordance
with the following guidelines:
For a Class
of 20
For a Class
of 30
grass 5 8
shrub 5 7
woolly hare 2 3
marmot 2 3
Chukar partridge 1 2
bharal 1 2
ibex 1 2
domestic goat 1 1
snow leopard 1 1
human 1 1
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Protecting the Endangered Snow Leopard