#1. Impact of Climate Change on the Diversity of Living Things

Back almost five million years ago there used to be animals that we had never heard about, but when the climate shifted some of those animals became extinct. The reason they became extinct was because of the huge shift in vegitation, if the animals food changed then they wouldn't have anything to eat and would therefore die. Some of those animals also adapted to the change in vegitation. Scientists know this because the animals teeth changed as they changed their diets. This then caused a evolution of the animal kingdom, animals which could not adapt died but the ones that could either changed their diets or they evolved into a species which has the right credentials to eat those sorts of plants. Scientists can tell that the animals that are living right now had to apapt very drastically in order to overcome those circumstances.

The climate is a big part of evolution, if the climate gets really hot then the animals will have to evolve so they can live in the heat. For example a horse will have to find something other than grass to eat because grass dies in the extreme heat.


Therefore; do you think you would be able to change all your eating patterns based on the climate.. because if it gets to hot then vegitation would be hard to find.