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Biodiversity gap-fill exercise
Fill in the missing words in the following passage and then check your answers from the list below.
Biodiversity means the variety of all _________[1] forms, their genes and
the __________[2] they make up.
Biodiversity on a farm may include:
- plants
- _________[3]
- amphibians
- reptiles
- birds
- mammals
- _________[4]
- _________[5].
Biodiversity is essential to maintain life on earth. It can assist to:
- provide clean _________[6] and water and fertile _________[7]
- control pests, _________[8] and weeds
- protect against _________[9].
Loss of biodiversity can result in _________[10] of plant and animal species.
Biodiversity on farms can be improved by:
- maintaining a variety of areas of native vegetation
- controlling weeds and _________[11] animals
- providing _________[12] corridors
- conserving _________[13] such as understorey vegetation, leaf litter, dead standing trees, rocky areas, _________[14] and wetlands
- rehabilitating and revegetating _________[15] sites.
Answers to biodiversity gap-fill exercise
- life
- ecosystems
- fish
- microorganisms
- habitats
- air
- soil
- diseases
- erosion
- extinction
- feral
- wildlife
- habitats
- waterways
- degraded
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