Causes
What are ways habitat destruction may occur?
What is deforestation? Forest fires? Urbanization? Trawler fishing?
When did humans evolve on earth?
What is ~2-4 million years ago?
What North Atlantic whale species are now endangered?
What is the North Atlantic Right Whale?
For what reason do scientists believe not all dinosaurs are extinct?
Why are birds descendants of dinosaurs?
What natural disaster cause a majority of dinosaurs to become extinct?
What is an asteroid?
Why do humans hunting cause extinction?
What is speciation?
What is the formation of a new species?
What orange primate at the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo is on the endangered species list?
What is the orangutan?
What human-produced gas is 22 times better at absorbing heat than carbon dioxide?
What is methane?
What is mass extinction?
What is a significant number of one species all dying simultaneously?
How does migration cause extinction?
What is a new disease?
How many species are living today?
What is ~40 million?
What Asian big cat is endangered and held at the Fort Wayne Children's zoo?
What is a tiger?
How many species have probably lived on Earth?
What is 5-50 billion?
Why may a wildfire contribute to extinction?
What is the destruction of habitats?
How does climate change cause extinction?
What is global warming?
Define a living fossil.
What is a species that has survived longer than 10 million years?
Did you know that Dumbo's species is endangered? What species is this?
What is an elephant?
Explain how current extinction rates compare to the background rate of extinction.
What is much, much, greater?
Why does a volcanic eruption kill plants?
How does the dust in the air stop photosynthesis?
Explain a way that an introduced species can cause extinction.
What is new competition? New predators? New disease?
What percent of species that have lived on earth are now extinct?
What is 99%?
What animal is at risk of extinction from the California Channel Islands due to predation and canine distemper virus?
What is the Channel Islands Fox?
What is known as Curviers's belief?
What is a massive catastrophe that has made multiple species become extinct?
There have been 5 mass extinction events on Earth. What do they all have in common?
What is a rapid increase in temperature?