Information Organiser: Compare the differences to how animals will adapt to Global Warming and what it is going to do to their habitats?
Cassie Dorn-Double, Team 14, October 2007
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Animal extinction It is estimated that about 125 species of birds and 60 species of
mammals have become extinct since 1600. Currently, there are
approximately 1000-1100 species of birds and mammals that are facing
extinction. If invertebrates and plants are included, the total number of species in imminent danger is around 20,000. Australia's cuddly national icon, the koala, faces extinction in parts of Australia within a decade as development destroys the marsupial's habitat, a conservation group warned. Only around 100,000 koalas were left in the wild and numbers were declining rapidly, the Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) said ahead of a renewed push to protect the species on a national level. A new research by archaeologists links the involvement of females in hunting as a possible explanation behind the extinction of the Neanderthals 30,000 years ago. The study points out that during the Stone Age period, it was also the job of females to hunt wild beats. This might have led to female hunters getting killed with an appalling frequency.
| All of the animals that are endangered in North America: Acornshell, southern; Albatross, short-tailed;
Amphipod, Hay's Spring; Bat, Hawaiian hoary; Bat, lesser; Bat, Mexican
long-nosed; Bat, Ozark big-eared; Bat, Virginia big-eared; Bear,
Louisiana black; Beetle, American burying (=giant carrion); Beetle,
Hungerford's crawling water ; Beetle, Puritan tiger; Bobwhite, masked
(quail) ; Butterfly, Karner blue; Butterfly, Lange's metalmark;
Butterfly, Mitchell's satyr; Chub, Borax Lake; Clubshell; Caracara,
Audubon's crested; Cavefish, Alabama ; Cavefish, Ozark; Chub, spotfin
(=turquoise shiner); Clubshell, black (=Curtus' mussel); Clubshell,
ovate; Clubshell, southern; Combshell, southern (=penitent mussel);
Combshell, upland; Condor, California; Coot, Hawaiian; Crane,
Mississippi sandhill; Crayfish, cave; Crayfish, Shasta; Crocodile,
American; Dace, desert; Darter, Maryland; Darter, Niangua; Darter,
amber; Darter, bayou; Darter, snail; Deer, Columbian white-tailed;
Dragonfly, Hine's; Eider, spectacled; Fanshell; Fairy shrimp,
Riverside; Fatmucket, Arkansas; Gambusia, Big Bend; Gnatcatcher,
coastal California; Goby, tidewater; Harvestman, Bee Creek Cave; Hawk,
Hawaiian ; Heelsplitter, inflated; Isopod, Socorro; Jaguarundi; Jay,
Florida scrub; Kidneyshell, triangular; Kite, Everglade snail;
Lampmussel, Alabama; Limpet, Banbury Springs; Lizard, Coachella Valley
fringe-toed; Lizard, Island night; Lizard, blunt-nosed leopard;
Logperch, Roanoke; Madtom, Neosho; Madtom, Scioto; Margay; Minnow, Rio
Grande silvery; Minnow, loach; Moth, Kern primrose sphinx; Moorhen;
Mountain beaver, Point Arena; Mouse, Alabama beach; Mouse, Pacific
pocket ; Mouse, Perdido Key beach; Mouse, salt marsh harvest; Panther,
Florida; Mussel, dwarf wedge; Mussel, ring pink; Mussel, winged
mapleleaf; Naucorid, Ash Meadows; Otter, southern sea; Owl, Mexican
spotted; Owl, northern spotted; Parrot, thick-billed; Pearlymussel,
pink mucket; Riffleshell, northern; Pearlymussel, cracking; Petrel,
Hawaiian dark-rumped; igtoe, dark; Pigtoe, rough; Plover, western
snowy; Pocketbook, fat; Poolfish (=killifish), Pahrump; Prairie dog,
Utah; Prairie-chicken, Attwater's greater; Pronghorn, Sonoran;
Pseudoscorpion, Tooth Cave; Pupfish, Ash Meadows Amargosa; Rabbit,
Lower Keys; Rail, Yuma clapper; Rattlesnake, New Mexican ridge-nosed;
Salamander, Red Hills; Rice rat (=silver rice rat); Salamander, Cheat
Mountain; Salamander, Shenandoah; Salamander, San Marcos; Salamander,
Texas blind; Salmon, chinook; Salmon, sockeye; Sculpin, pygmy; Seal,
Hawaiian monk; Sea-lion, Northern Steller; Seal, guadalupe fur; Shiner,
Cahaba; Shrike, San Clemente loggerhead; Shiner, Cape Fear; Shrew,
Dismal Swamp southeastern; Skink, bluetail (=blue-tailed) mole, Skink,
sand; Shrimp, Alabama cave; Shrimp, California freshwater; Smelt,
delta; Snail, Bliss Rapids; Snail, Chittenango ovate amber; Snail, Iowa
Pleistocene; Snake, Concho water; Snake, giant garter; Snake, eastern
indigo; Sparrow, San Clemente sag; Spider, Tooth Cave; Spikedace;
Springsnail, Idaho; Squawfish, Colorado; Squirrel, Delmarva Peninsula
fox; Squirrel, Mount Graham red; Stickleback, unarmored threespine;
Stirrupshell; Stork, wood; Sturgeon, pallid; Sturgeon, white; Sucker,
razorback; Tadpole shrimp, vernal pool; Tern, California least; Toad,
Arroyo southwestern, Toad, Houston; Toad, Wyoming; Tortoise, gopher;
Trout, Gila; Trout, Lahontan cutthroat; Turtle, Plymouth redbelly;
Turtle, Alabama redbelly; Turtle, flattened musk; Turtle, ringed map;
Turtle, yellow-blotched map; Vireo, black-capped; Vole, Amargosa; Vole,
Hualapai Mexican; Warbler (wood), Kirtland's; Woodrat, Key Largo;
Woundfin |
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Teacher: Rob & Claire |
Area: Animals |
Level: Year 6 |
Date: October 2007 | |
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Inquiry Question(s):
Compare the differences to how animals and humans will adapt to Global Warming? |
Supporting questions (smaller questions I might need to ask first):
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Resources I could use and experts I could contact:
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Places I could go (virtual and real):
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How will this learning affect me in the future? I can tell people what it is doing to their animals so that they can try and help stop Global Warming and keep animals alive
How can I make a difference with this learning?
What problems might I solve using this new knowledge? |
Proposed End Outcomes
What I can do with this learning... /
What can I CREATE!!!
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