Question Sheet: Three strikes wiped out woolly mammoths

SCIENCE

Ahead reading:

1. What's the difference between a Mammuthus primigenius, a mastodont and an elephant?
2. Where did they live?
3. What do you suppose led to the extinction of mammoths — and when?

During reading:

1. How do scientists know that people hunted and killed mammoths?
2. When did mammoths inhabit?
3. How did they stay hot?
4. What is steppe-tundra?
5. How did citizenry use mammoths, other than for solid food?
6. How might citizenry have contributed to the animals' extinction just about 6,000

   years ago? And what persona might climate have played in that?

7. What did the presence of nanodiamonds advise might be an additive crusade

   of mammoth extinctions?

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Afterward reading:

1. What does the story suggest most the purpose of hunting in maintaining species

   diversity?

2. Scientists describe our climate as changing. What lessons might be erudite

   from the mammoth story about life's power to deal with changes in climate?

3. Most people think of comets as icy orbiting objects draw close the sun. What do

   you think out might happen if a comet striking Earth today?

4. Today's Earth is much more civilized than in the large's day. Hoi polloi live

   ended most of its surface and execute activities that feign air, weewe and

   species fractional a world away. Give an example of something that takes place in your

   town or county that might have damaging impacts on animals (including people)

   hundreds or thousands of miles away?

Interpersonal STUDIES

1. How has hunting altered over the millennia? How have these changes affected

   the areas where hunting occurs, the species that are targeted and the size of

   harvests? How has the purpose of hunt changed over the past several hundred

   geezerhood?

2. What role do people have as stewards of wildlife? Wherefore do governments work and so

   hard to protect wildlife? (Hint: Imagine a universe without sharks or birds or

   bats.)

3. Opine a comet hitting Earth today. Anticipate how much damage it could do

   and what the economic impacts of that equipment casualty might be. NASA scientists are

   construction telescopes to guide for comets that might be on a trajectory to hit

   Earth. Why are they doing this? Do they just want to know out of curiosity? Is

   there something that engineers might make out if they knew a comet was headed toward

   Earth? How much lead time would scientists have — weeks, months, years, even

   decades?

4. In the ERA of mammoths, there was no such thing as countries. People lived

   in clans and small hamlets. How has the development of reorganized cities altered

   they way people affect the landscape — and share selective information about the wellness of

   Earth's species?

LANGUAGE ARTS

1. Write three haiku (a primary type of short poem) about mammoths. Most incline

   to account something in just ternary lines, consisting of a total of 17 syllables

   (5 in the first line, seven in the second and 5 in the last). Pauperism help

   understanding the constitute? Go to: http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Haiku-Poem

2. Guard a classroom debate on whether search of deep animals is trade good or bad

   for their likely survival. One grouping should explore why whopping animals are

   particularly vulnerable to hunting pressures (hint: consider their sprightliness

   histories). A second group should look at how hunting may sensitize hoi polloi to

   the importance of a species (based on its economic value to the livelihood of

   the hunters. Afterward, take a classroom vote: Which side made a Thomas More persuasive

   casing?

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