David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
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Instructions: as we watch, David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet, answer the
following questions. Hint they will appear in order they are asked. If you are
completing this assignment as make up work the documentary can be found on
Netflix.
1. Where does the documentary start?
2. What happened there that made in uninhabitable?
3. How old is David Attenborough?
4. How would you describe his life/job?
5. 1937 statistics
a. Population
b. Carbon in atmosphere
c. Remaining Wilderness
6. What was the buried treasure he found in the rocks as a boy?
7. How many mass extinctions has the Earth had?
8. Over how long have world temperatures been stable?
9. What human development kick started the civilized world?
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
10. 1954 statistics
a. Population
b. Carbon in atmosphere
c. Remaining Wilderness
11. 1960 statistics
a. Population
b. Carbon in atmosphere
c. Remaining Wilderness
12. How did The Apollo 8 mission change the mindset of people had of the world?
13. 1978 statistics
a. Population
b. Carbon in atmosphere
c. Remaining Wilderness
14. In the late 1970s he noticed that it was getting harder to find animals in the wild.
True or False?
15. What was being hunted in the oceans in the 1970s?
16. What was the key to changing peoples’ opinions on whaling?
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
17. He describes humanity as something that has “broken loose” what does this
mean?
18. Where did he first witness the destruction of the natural world?
19. What have we been replacing rainforests with?
20. 1997 statistics
a. Population
b. Carbon in atmosphere
c. Remaining Wilderness
21. When did large fleets start fishing in international waters?
22. What % of large fish have we removed since then?
23. What has been happening to coral reefs over the last 20-30 years?
24. What is the believed cause of this issue?
25. An increase in atmospheric carbon has been linked with all of the Earth’s _______.
26. When did he notice the earth was losing its temperature balance?
27. What is happening to the ice in the artic?
28. About how much has the global average temperature increased in his lifetime?
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
29. How many trees get cut down each year?
30. Half of the world’s fertile land is now what?
31. What does he mean that 70% of birds are domestic?
32. Humans make up a about a third of the mass of all mammals on Earth, the
animals we raise to eat make up 60%. Wild mammals from mice to whales make
up only ___%.
33. 2020 statistics
a. Population
b. Carbon in atmosphere
c. Remaining Wilderness
34. What is one thing science predicts will happen in your lifetime?
35. To restore stability in our planet we must restore its _____________________.
36. What changes do we need to make to increase the stability and health of our
planet? List at least 5.
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
37. Organize the statistics displayed throughout in the table below then graph one of
the topics: Population, Carbon, or Wilderness.
Year
Population in
Carbon in
Remaining
billions
atmosphere in ppm
wilderness %
1937
1954
1960
1978
1997
2020