The Great Dyings

It's a fact: 99.9% of all life forms that ever existed on Earth have gone extinct before humans evolved. It is possible that this type of mass extinction could occur again. You are part of a joint research team including representatives of FEMA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, and The Global Crop Diversity Trust that has to report on:

• exactly what caused the extinction of all these other life forms. Explain how a disaster in one part of the world could lead to global extinction of a species.
  
• how will humans prepare for life during and after a mass extinction event in the future. How many humans would be left and what could they find for food?

Answer to the daily problem will be recorded on Flipcam while students are at the museum.


The Fifth Extinction (K-T)


The Third Extinction (Permian)



The First Extinction Event (Ordovician-Silurian)




Links for more info:
http://www.croptrust.org/main/arctic.php?itemid=211

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/extinction_sidebar_000907.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20180820/

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world/mass-extinction/

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/Fossil_Halls/fossil-halls2.html

http://www.amnh.org/rose/hope/

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/meteorites/