The Environment Sucks! :3
How many animals have humans made extinct?
Since the 16th century, humans have driven at least 680 vertebrate species to extinction!
How many planets are still untouched by man? (By planets I mean including the Moon)
4! Humans have walked on Venus, the Moon, Mars, and Earth!
The ____ is an extinct flightless bird with a stout body, stumpy wings, a large head, and a heavy hooked bill! It was found on the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, until the end of the 17th century! :D
What is a Dodo?
How many baby turtles die from eating plastic bags a year?
4,600! :D
What is the largest source of radioactive waste?
Most of the transuranic waste in the United States is from nuclear weapons production facilities! This waste includes common items such as rags, tools, and laboratory equipment contaminated during the early age of nuclear weapons research and development!!
How many plastic water bottles are used every year?
50 billion bottles!
___ ____ which are now extinct, are an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters, that look like cows but with fins instead of legs!
What is Steller's Sea Cow?/Sea Cow?
True/False! Beavers affect the environment almost as much as humans do!
True! Atleast they affect it in a good way..
How much plastic is dumped into the ocean each year?
It's estimated that more than 10 million tons of plastic is dumped into our oceans every year! :D
Do bears eat cruel humans?
Sadly, usually no. ;(
The ______ _______ is a species of furry elephant that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch!
What is a Woolly Mammoth?
Have mutated frogs ever been spotted?
Yes! Many times, actually there have been three eyed frog sightings, cyclops frogs, frogs with extra legs, frogs with no legs, frogs with no head, frogs with 2 heads, ect!
How many trees do humans cut down a day?
2.47 million trees! :D
How many animals do humans kill every year?
Including wild-caught fish, we get a total closer to 3 billion animals killed daily! That comes out to 72 billion land animals and over 1.2 trillion aquatic animals killed for food around the world every year! :D
The _____ ___ is a species of flightless bird that became extinct in the mid-19th century! It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus! :D It is not closely related to the birds now known as penguins, which were discovered later and so named by sailors because of their physical resemblance to the _____ ___!
What is a Great Auk?
Do you think people that hunt innocent animals for fun are good people?
If so, you just lost 50 points! >:<
How many people actually care about our planet and get rid of plastic waste?
Only about 6% of humans do! :D
The ________ ______ is an extinct species of Pigeon that was endemic to North America! It's common name is derived from the French word passager, meaning "passing by", due to the migratory habits of the species!
What is a Passenger Pigeon?
**DISCLAIMER** **Read question after all columns are answered!** After all that trivia, what have we learned today kids?
That humanity is doomed, all the animals we know and love will become extinct because of hunting, and that our world has no future! :D