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The Spotted Lanternfly arrived in the U.S. accidentally, hitchhiking on international shipping materials. At first, it seemed like just another bug.

What changed?

Lanternflies fed heavily on Tree-of-Heaven, another invasive plant.

They spread rapidly to vineyards, orchards, and hardwood forests.

Trees weakened, leaked sap, and became more vulnerable to disease.

Farmers faced crop losses.

Native insects were displaced.

Humans became part of the ecosystem response—scraping egg masses, changing land-management practices.

Big idea: One invasive insect reshaped plant health, agriculture, native species, and even human behavior.

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Before the Industrial Revolution, the Peppered moth was mostly light-colored, blending into pale, lichen-covered trees.

What changed?

Factories released soot into the air.

Tree bark darkened; lichens died.

Birds could easily spot light moths.

Dark moths survived and reproduced more.

Within decades, the population evolved.

When pollution laws later cleaned the air, the trend reversed.

Big idea: Changing the environment changed which traits were favored—natural selection caught on camera.

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When wolves were removed from Yellowstone National Park, elk populations exploded.

What changed next?

Elk overgrazed willow and aspen.

Riverbanks eroded.

Bird and beaver populations declined.

When wolves were reintroduced:

Elk changed where and how they grazed.

Vegetation recovered.

Beavers returned.

Rivers stabilized and even changed course.

This is a trophic cascade—a top predator reshaping the entire ecosystem.

Big idea: Removing or restoring one species can restructure land, water, and life.

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We have hunted animals made them go extinct and others have to adapt to these extinctions because some relay on the animals for food or a teemate and the DNA changes. We change the climate as some probley devoleped some thinker winter coat or lost the winter coat or maby the diat of eating different things causing even more changes of reactions the world of animal infact fun fact thousands of specwis of animals go extinct every day causing the cycle to repeat all because of us.

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a ton off peole are hunting these animals and they are going exticnt becaseu they are all gettig killed and they cant make more animals if they are all dead.

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Iguanas live in mainly warm habitats, but when it gets really cold, they freeze and fall out of trees. They also need food like leaves and plants, so if they are not in there habitat, there population may drop!

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When global warming came, all of the ice melted everywhere, and it is causing the polar bears to starve to death and go extinct.

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Poachers can illegally hunt animals and earn profits from endangered animals, causing them to go extinct.

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People hunt for food and our main source of food is meat but the meat comes from animals and we have to kill them for food.

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even tho the mammoth was a long time ago, it went extinct because of global warming and didn't evolve fast enough, the only evidenze we have of them is their fossils and the ice age wiki

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Black rhinos are endangered primarily due to relentless poaching for their horns, driven by demand in illegal markets for traditional medicine and status symbols, leading to a devastating population collapse of over 90%

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Rising temperatures can cause water to become warmer or a region to experience drought. A warmer, smaller pond may suffer from reduced oxygen levels, causing fish populations to decline.

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Western gorilla are endangered of the ecosystem because of deforestation the cause of the deforestation is because of mining and palm trees