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How can humans cause extinctions?

Deforestation, Fossil Fuels, Pollution, and more! These things cause habitat loss.

___________ is a man-made disaster caused by cutting down trees.

Deforestation

What are the three R's to help save the environment?

Reduce, Reuse,and Recycle

Who is the scientist who said living things get their traits from their ancestors?

Abraham Lincoln

Charles Dickens

Dr. Albert Einstein

Charles Darwin

What is a famous example of a mass extinction?

The dinosaurs going extinct millions of years ago!

An ______ is a person, plant, or animal from one's family that lived a long time ago

Ancestor

What do scientists use to learn about animals of the past?

The Sun

Food Webs

TV

Fossils

True or False: An endangered species is one at risk of becoming extinct.

True

Animals ____ to their environments more and more over time.

Move

Set Fire

React

Adapt

When a species is endangered, are there a lot of this species left?

No. There are very few left if a species is endangered.

When an entire species dies out, that species has gone ______ .

Extinct

What is the name of the form of pollution having to do with dangerous emissions that enter our air?

Air Pollution

True or False: Fossils are clues to how life was yesterday.

False! Fossils are clues to how life was a long time ago.

What's an example of an extinct species?

Dinosaurs, Golden Toad, Irish Elk, Dodo Bird, Woolly Mammoth, and more.

Living things change over time into new species in a process called ________

Evolution

Pollution

Adaptation

Recycle

The theory of evolution says that the living world ______ all the time.

Changes

When there are harmful substances in the water, land, soil, or air, this is called ________.

Pollution