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Students create an If-Then Adventure Story, incorporating the benefits of plants & animals, and problems that are contributing the rapid extinction of organisms.
Benefits of Plants & Animals
- Purify water & soil
- Used as a food source
- Medicine
- Used for work
- Provide oxygen to breath
- Keeps pests down
- Pollinate food crops
- Keep Earth cooler
- Companionship
Problems Contributing to Extinction
- Invasive species
- Climate change
- Disease
- Habitat loss
- Pollution
- Increased UV exposure (hole in ozone)
- Overhunting/ overfishing/ poaching
- Acidification of the ocean
- Pesticides
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