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VIRTUAL LEARNING1. Which is your favourite wild animal?
2. Which is the natural habitat for your favourite animal?
3. Specify the basic necessity for the animal to survive.
4. What do you understand by the term extinct?
5. Mention any two extinct animals.
6. Can you remember a movie which speaks about extinct
animal?
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Revisiting the Questions and answer discussion
3.Food, water and Shelter
4. Extinct means not existing anymore.
5. Woolly Mammoth, Dodo, Great Auk, Passenger-pigeon
6. Jurassic Park
Examples For Extinct AnimalsWoolly Mammoth
Dodo
Great Auk
Passenger -Pigeon
Causes for Extinction
a. habitat loss
b. pollution
c. climate change
d. overpopulation
e. disease
f. disaster
g. hunting
h. competition
Consequences:
• Collapse of food web
• Loss of species
• Loss of medicinal supplies
• Affects bio-diversity
• Increased vulnerability of species to disease and predation
Endangered species
• Endangered species is a
species that is likely to
become extinct in the near
future.
• Endangered species may
be at risk due to factors
such as habitat loss or
poaching.
Examples for Endangered Species: Siberian Tiger
Panda
Examples of Endangered species
Grevy Zebra Bengal Tiger
Orangutan Bald Eagle
How can we protect and preserve endangered species and fragile?
• Bringing awareness to the public especially to the youth.
• Recycling and buying sustainable products.
• Growing native plants because local species rely on local plants.
• Drive less and walk more
• Never dump chemicals or industrial waste into streams or rivers
• Volunteer your time to protect the wild life in your area.
• Write letters, sign petitions when things go wrong.
• Never encourage black marketing because we never realise
that we are buying things like tortoise shell, ivory and coral
which are constantly under threat.
• Avoid plastic products.
Worksheet
1. State any two animals that you have seen in the video.
2. What will happen to such animals if humans are constantly
involved in poaching?
3. Mention five kinds of human activities that result in species
extinctions
4. List three species that have become endangered due to human
activities also find out the scientific names.
5. Identify the sustainable developmental goal that is related to
“Protection of wild animal”.
REFLECTIONDraw a concept map-for Extinct Animal
Species NameCauses
of extinctio
nStick the
picture of an Extinct
animal
Initial populatio
n size
Location
Possible action that may have prevented
the extinction
Draw the concept map for Endangered Animal
Species nameMeasures
to be taken to prevent the loss of animal lie. Stick the
picture of an
endangered animal
Initial populatio
n size
Present population
sizeReasons
Submit your worksheet and concept map to [email protected]