高中英语必修2unit4听力部分教学课件.pptVIP

The Dodo is an extinct flightless bird, ?it was about 1 meter tall and may have weighed 10.6–21.1?kg in the wild. Their appearance in life is evidenced only by drawings, paintings, and written accounts from their fossils. It has been depicted with brownish-grey feathers, yellow feet, a tuft of tail feathers, a grey, naked head, and a black, yellow, and green beak. Unit 4 Wildlife Protection Part 5 Animal Extinction Name: The Falkland Islands Wolf or Warrah （南极狼） Extinct time: 1876 Possible extinct reason: Hunters have frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to kill them, so they decreased rapidly. Name: Mexican grizzly bear (墨西哥灰熊) Extinct time: 1964 Possible extinct reason: Because bears hunted the cattle from time to time they were considered a pest by farmers. They were trapped, shot and poisoned, and had become extinct. Name: The giant moa (Dinornis) (恐鸟) Extinct time: 1950s Possible extinct reasons: People hunted them for food because their meat were very delicious and nutritive. The forests were cut and burned down and the ground was turned into arable land, the giant moa had been extinct The volcanic eruption destroyed their living environment so that they became extinct But other presumed that it is because the outbreak the epidemic which made their number decrease rapidly Dinosaurs Why did they become extinct? 1. A huge rock from space hit the earth and put too much dust into the air . 2. The earth got too hot for the dinosaurs to live on any more . The other possible reasons Volcanic eruptions The high volcanic activities contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs, because the volcanoes could easily cover the earth in enough dust and smog which caused the volcanic winter and ice age. The fierce competition between the species Early mammals gradually increased and the temperature changes , the food source of the plant-eating dinosaurs become le