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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

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