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True or false: The Dodo was the first animal human's drove to extinction.
True.
What are 2 animals that have made a comeback?
Some animals that have come back from being endangered include giant pandas, bald eagle, mountain gorillas, humpback whales, and the gray wolf.
What are some ways you could help?
Educating yourself on the endangered species near you, slow down when driving on roads that are known to have animals crossing it, recycle and buy sustainable products, and don’t purchase products that use parts of an endangered species.
How can humans cause animals to go extinct?
Causing animals to loose their habitat- clearing the fields for crops, mining, and construction. Humans also contribute to climate change, deforestation, hunting, and introducing invasive species to ecosystems which endangers animals.
What is one recently extinct animal?
Sumatran rhino, Catarina pupfish or Chinese paddlefish.
How do endangered animals make a comeback?
Environmental regulations, captive breeding, and creating new habitat reserves.
How do human's get effected by an animal going extinct?
There would be less carbon dioxide to support photosynthesis, all pollinators would be gone so plants wouldn’t be able to grow, humans wouldn’t have enough food left, there would be nothing to keep us warm, no pets to help people with disabilities, as well as many other things which would then cause humans to die out.
How can animals go extinct naturally?
Some ways that animals can go extinct naturally are change of climate, natural disasters, changes in sea levels and through diseases.
What are 5 animals we saved from extinction?
Giant pandas, bald eagle, mountain gorillas, humpback whales, and the grey wolf.
How would extinct animals possibly make a comeback?
You could take the extinct animals genetic data and transfer it to the egg of a living similar animal and that could possibly bring the extinct animal back.
What would happen if all animals went extinct?
There would be less carbon dioxide to support photosynthesis, all pollinators would be gone so plants wouldn’t be able to grow, humans wouldn’t have enough food left, there would be nothing to keep us warm, no pets to help people with disabilities, as well as many other things which would then cause humans to die out.
What caused the Dodo to go extinct?
Over hunted and ate by dutch sailors, the dodo was also pretty dumb so it was fairly easy to get ahold of.
What are 5 extinct animals?
Sabre toothed tiger, the Dodo, Passenger Pigeon, Mammoth, Dinosaurs, Sumatran rhino, Catarina pupfish and Chinese paddlefish.
Why would an extinct animal coming back not be of benefit to the environment?
This would be of much benefit though because that animal probably went extinct for a reason and if that reason was humans, most likely they would just drive the animal to extinction again and now the ecosystem has probably also adapted without it so introducing them could be a problem.
If a predator goes extinct, how would that effect others in the ecosystem?
Their prey will overpopulate and they can spread to other ecosystems if there isn’t enough space in their own, and can then become an invasive species.
Most common cause of recent extinctions?
Habitat loss- clearing the fields for crops, mining, and construction.