standard 4: model with mathematics. Expand +. classroom observations: Teachers who are developing studentsâ capacity to model with mathematics move explicitly between real-world scenarios and mathematical representations of those scenarios.
exists and is an alternate of . Functional extinction means that there are not enough live animals (or animal protoplasm) of a certain species for the species to breed and survive.
If we can understand the mechanics of extinction and how life responds to fluxes like climate change, we might be able to use the dead to look to the future. Just as non-avian dinosaurs were only part of a major mass extinction 66 million years ago, mammoths are but one icon of a deeper loss of biodiversity.