Conservation Preservation

PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION

Animal Extinction

Animals extinction means the disappearance of animals from the Earth. We know of their existence through the discovery of fossils, history and research.

Animals in memories

• Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex)

• Lived in the age of dinosaurs

Dodo bird

• form island Mauritius

• Cannot fly

• hunted by sailor who stopped there

• rats and cats eat the eggs

Mammoth

• resembled an elephant

• live during ice age

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Quagga

• body that partially resembled a horse and zebra

• hunted for meat and skin

saber- toothed tiger

• long canine teeth

• grow up to 30cm

Tasmanian tiger

• medium to large size dog

• live in Australia, New Guinea, Tasmania

• hunted to be extinction, introduction of dog and desease

Multiple Choice

Which animal was hunted for its egg?

• Quagga

• Dodo bird

• T-Rex

Multiple Select

Which of this animal below had extinct ?

Multiple Choice

The diagram shows a species of extinct animal (quagga).

Why has this animal become extinct?

• Hunted by humans for its skin and meat

• Hunted by other animals as their food

• Fought among themselves until they

  became extinct

• Struck by comets until they could not

  survive

Multiple Choice

What is the name of this extinct animal?

• Mammoth

• West African Black Rhinocero

• Great Auk

• Asian Elephant