Why do animals become endangered? The last dinosaurs died 65 million years ago. The cause of their extinction is still a mystery, climate change, diseases, changing plant communities . A giant meteor crashed to earth near the gulf of mexico, the meteor could have landed with such impact that kicked up enough dust and debris to block out sunlight for a long time. Without the sun, all the plants died, and without the plants all the plant eaters died, and without the plant eaters all meat eaters died. Extinction is a process that leads to a species or population disappearance. Animals become extinct through natural causes. The plants or animals on which the species lived could have died out because the change of weather, Or one animal might have been destroyed by another that was stronger or faster. Ever since human beings have been on earth, animal species have become extinct because of hunting, pollution
, or destruction of the places where they live
A.
Hunting
a. hunting is a cause for extinction. numbers of animals are killed by hunters . animals are hunted for food.
b.
“ human population growth and hunting almost leads to major mass extinctions” c.
Large animals disappeared around 46,000 years ago, or about
10,000 years after the arrival of humans.
II. Pollution
A.
Write a
T
opic sentence about Assumption 2
a.
Pollution is among the most threat to nature.
b.
Find a citation (fact)
E
xample from your source(s) to support your opinion (Put “…” marks around it and the number of the article in which you found your fact)
c.
State why this fact is correct by expressing through restating
III.
Destruction of where they live
A.
Write a
T
opic sentence about Assumption 3
a.
Write your
O
pinion about Assumption 3 – this should be multiple sentences b.
Find a citation (fact)
E
xample from your source(s) to support your opinion (Put “…” marks around it and the number of the article in which you found your fact)
c.
State why this fact is correct by expressing through restating
