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Mr. P Life Science Slide 2 What do you think? What happens if a species fails to adapt to its environment? Slide 3 Share with your Partner What happens if a species fails to adapt to its environment? Slide 4 Share with the class What happens if a species fails to adapt to its environment? Slide 5 They go Extinct X Slide 6 So what should we do? Slide 7 Should we save all of the species? Slide 8 Plankton Slide 9 What does Plankton do? It captures light and turns it into energy It is food for many sea organisms Slide 10 What eats the sea organisms? Slide 11 What eats the small fish Slide 12 So what would happen if. The phytoplankton could not adapt to the environment changes? Think about it.. Slide 13 So what would happen if. The phytoplankton could not adapt to the environment changes? Share with your partner.. Slide 14 So what would happen if. The phytoplankton could not adapt to the environment changes? Share with the class. Slide 15 If plankton go extinct The plankton are gone. The sea organisms go extinct. The small fish go extinct. The large fish go extinct The ocean is emptier So plankton are important and demonstrate that species that go extinct could have big impacts on others Slide 16 So what causes extinction 1) Failure to adapt to the environment 2) Humans are impacting the environments, making them harder to live in for other species Slide 17 Slide 18 Slide 19 Slide 20 Slide 21 Slide 22 Slide 23 Slide 24 Slide 25 Slide 26 Slide 27 Slide 28 Burmese Pythons in Florida Slide 29 Zebra Mussels Slide 30 What about the future?