Quiz on Extinction of life forms

1. In India we have a living fossil that has persisted over 300 million years. It is called the

2. The cheetah from India was last seen in the wild in--

3. “You can fence out people but you cannot fence out their effects” Who said this?

4. The heath hen of North America became extinct by

5. The pygmy hog, the lesser florican, the hangul and the swamp deer face extinction

6. Man became a serious causative factor of extinction only during the last ---------------years of earth history.

7. There are several obscure species, which have let time and the changing world pass by with little change in their gross anatomy or their habitats. Such animals that have survived beyond their era are termed ..

8. The pink headed duck from India was last seen in the wild in ……

9. James Audubon, a famous illustrator, wrote about seeing a column of birds filling the sky so that the “light of the noonday sun was obscured as if by an eclipse”. In 1914, within 50 years, the last of this bird, ---------------died in captivity in a zoo.

10. The flightless great auk of the high northern altitudes, counterpart of the penguins of the Antartic, was slaughtered to extinction by