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True or False: An endangered species is one at risk of becoming extinct.
True
When an entire species dies out, that species has gone ______ .
Extinct
When a species is endangered, are there a lot of this species left?
No. There are very few left if a species is endangered.
What is a famous example of a mass extinction?
The dinosaurs going extinct millions of years ago!
How can humans cause extinctions?
Deforestation, Fossil Fuels, Pollution, and more! These things cause habitat loss.
What's an example of an extinct species?
Dinosaurs, Golden Toad, Irish Elk, Dodo Bird, Woolly Mammoth, and more.
When there are harmful substances in the water, land, soil, or air, this is called ________.
Pollution
___________ is a man-made disaster caused by cutting down trees.
Deforestation
What is the name of the form of pollution having to do with dangerous emissions that enter our air?
Air Pollution
What are the three R's to help save the environment?
Reduce, Reuse,and Recycle
Animals ____ to their environments more and more over time.
Move
React
Adapt
Set Fire
Who is the scientist who said living things get their traits from their ancestors?
Dr. Albert Einstein
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Darwin
Charles Dickens
An ______ is a person, plant, or animal from one's family that lived a long time ago
Ancestor
The theory of evolution says that the living world ______ all the time.
Changes
True or False: Fossils are clues to how life was yesterday.
False! Fossils are clues to how life was a long time ago.
Living things change over time into new species in a process called ________
Adaptation
Evolution
Pollution
Recycle
