3.5.6 L1 G9 - Animals Facing Extinction

3.5.6 L1 G9 -

Animals Facing Extinction

By Liz Anderson

Multiple Choice

Why might wild animals face extinction?

• From their habitats changing due to global warming

• Because they are being captured for zoos

• Because there is not enough food to feed them

• Weaker animals are not able to grow bigger to defend themselves.

Poll

In your opinion, what is the worst thing for animals, and threatens their extinction the most?

• Deforestation

• Pollution

• Logging

• Sea levels rising due to climate change

​Class discussion

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Tell me about this graph.

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What do you notice happening over the years?​

Open Ended

Which companies might use palm oil, OR, which consumer products use palm oil?

​Does this surprise you?

Multiple Select

What happens to ecosystems if there is a rise in global temperature?

• The impacts on an animal's ecosystems will not be positive

• Animals in that ecosystem may not be able to adapt even further from a damaged one already

• Animals will die from heat exhaustion as the rise in temperature impacts them

• Ecosystems will have to adapt and the animals within them will also have to adapt.

Multiple Choice

Aside from animal habitats dwindling due the shrinking of the Arctic Sea and wildfires elsewhere, what else is causing animals to become endangered?

• The rise in temperature is particularly hard for animals with fur

• Animals will be washed away by the ocean levels rising

• Animals and people are both competing for the same resources

• Animals are at risk because of poachers

Multiple Choice

Which animal species are most at risk?

• Introduced

• Native

• Endemic

• Any of them

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