Yesterday we read about endangered animals, bald eagles being one, and how the number of them was declining because the toxins in the air were effecting the shell which was making them weak there for the eggs were breaking and the birds were dieing. We were then assigned some questions.
Today in class we started by reviewing the questions we did last day, and discussed them as a class. We then went on to a reading (page 16-19 in textbook did questions 1,3) on endangered and extinct species. We learned about passenger pigeons and how the number of them drastically decreased due to commercial hunting/removing forests and "stool pigeon". The reading also talked about how humans are mostly to blame for the large number of endangered species (rate of extinctions=80 species per/year) some examples include: Global warming, and expanding cities which are reducing the sizes of the ecosystems.
We finished the class by watching a short video on the Burrowing Owl.
Next is Ryder
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