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Extinction : What Happened to the Dinosaurs, Mastodons, and Dodo Birds? Cover Image

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Extinction : What Happened to the Dinosaurs, Mastodons, and Dodo Birds?

Summary: Have you seen a dodo bird recently? Do you have mastodons playing in your back yard? Not likely-- these species are extinct! In Earth's 4.5 billion-year history, more than 5 billion species have gone extinct, some of them at the same time. In EXTINCTION: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAURS, MASTODONS, AND DODO BIRDS? kids ages 9 to 12 learn about the detective work scientists perform to find out why mass extinctions happen...Try these hands-on STEM projects! Draw a geological timeline; Create your own fossil; Investigate rock strata; Build a pollution detection device; Simulate the effects of ocean acidification; Make recycled paper.

Record details

ISBN: 9781619305618
Physical Description: 122 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
Publisher: White River Junction, Vermont : Nomad Press, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

General Note:	"With 25 projects"--Front cover. Includes index and glossary.
Formatted Contents Note:	Geologic time scale -- What is extinction? -- The causes of extinction -- The Paleozoic era -- The Mezazoic era -- The Cenozoic era -- Survival -- The sixth mass extinction? -- Taking action -- Glossary -- Metric conversions -- Resources -- Essential questions -- Index.