What does it mean if an animal is extinct?

• There are no more (zero) of that animal on earth

• There are only a few of that animal on earth

• There are many of that animal on earth

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Which of the following animals is extinct?

• sharks

• dogs

• pandas

• dinosaurs

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What does it mean if an animal is endangered?

• There are no more (zero) left on earth

• There are only a few left on earth

• There are many of that animal left on earth

Which animal is endangered?

• cats

• pandas

• goldfish

• dinosaurs

What do we call an event that happens quickly and kills all of an animal species?

• mass extinction

• semi extinction

• partial extinction

• shadows fall

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True or False:

Usually extinction happens slowly over a long period of time.

• True

• False

What are the 2 main ways that extinction occurs?

• naturally

• human interaction

• alien invasion

• artificial intelligence

  take over

• being sucked into an alternate universe

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What do many scientists think happened to cause the mass extinction of the dinosaurs?

• an asteroid hit the earth

• the dinosaurs all caught the flu

• aliens took them away to an interstellar zoo

• cavemen hunted them into extinction

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Naturally occurring extinction happens when animals

cannot adapt to changes in their _____________.

• body

• environment

• school schedule

• clothes

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Identify 3 ways the natural extinction occurs.

• climate change

• new predators

• loss of food

• more food sources

• less predators

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