Extinction and Fossils

When all of one kind of plant or animal has died and there are no more on earth that is called?

• bad luck

• extinction

• fossils

• dinosaurs

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

Why did the T-Rex go extinct?

• a meteor

• climate change

• human hunting

• nobody really knows

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Why did the Tecopa pupfish go extinct?

• climate change

• human hunting

• an invasive species

• pollution

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Why did the Baiji River Dolphin go extinct?

• disease

• loss of food source

• human hunting

• climate change

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Why did the American Carrier Pigeon go extinct? (choose more than one)

• human hunting

• climate change

• loss of habitat

• invasive species

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Why did the wooly mammoth go extinct? (choose more than one)

• human hunting

• climate change

• invasive species

• pollution

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Why are older fossils harder to find?

• they are buried deeper

• there are less of them

• they are smaller

• they all rot away

A dinosaur's foot print is which type of fossil?

• cast

• mold

• trace

• body

True or False. Fossils can come from both plants and animals.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

True or False. All fossils are made of bones.

• True

• False