Question

c. Read the lesson and complete the following statement .
1. The areas considered suitable to be pandas homes .________________
2. First appearance of pandas.______
3. pandas lived initially in._________
4. three provinces in which they live now _________
5. They live at the height of._________
6. Names of plants / trees in the area where pandas live ________
7.Two reasons why forest areas are decreasing ________​

Answer 1

Answer:

1.Aside from bamboo, panda habitat suitability is most commonly defined by three variables- forest, slope, and elevation [14]. Pandas use forests located at the mid-elevations that provide suitable conditions for bamboo growth [11, 15].

2.Fossils from northern Myanmar and Vietnam and much of China as far north as Beijing indicate that the giant panda was widely distributed throughout eastern Asia during the early Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago).

3.A bear very similar to a panda lived in what's now Hungary 10 million years ago. The creature ate a similar diet to modern giant pandas, suggesting their unusual bamboo-chewing lifestyle has survived through evolutionary time.

4.Pandas live in around 20 isolated habitats (red) in Gansu, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces, China.

5.between 2 and 3 feet

6.Pandas are always associated with bamboo, but they need more than just bamboo to make a home. San Diego Zoo scientists have found that suitable panda habitat requires old-growth conifer forests with at least two species of bamboo and water access.

SPECIES: melanoleuca

GENUS: Ailuropoda

7.The major causes of forest decline include: 1) pollution from both industry and agriculture, 2) stress factors, e.g., desiccation, 3) changes in stand dynamics, 4) decline disease of forest or diseases of complex etiology, 5) degradation of productivity and/or soil fertility in pure plantation forests.

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