Answer:
The changes that humans create in the environment often lead to severe challenges in animal and plant species. The following are three possible outcomes for species when rapid environmental changes occur:
1. Change in behavior: Adaptation.
2. Change (increase or decrease) in population.
3. Rapid evolution.
Explanation:
1. Change in behavior: Adaptation:
Many species first adjust and undergo changes in their behaviour; this usually occurs as their initial response to adjustments or altered conditions of environment.
2. Change (Increase or decrease) in population:
Many species respond to environmental change by either increasing or decreasing in numbers—even to the point of extinction. Species could become more dominant, or less dominant.
3. Rapid evolution:
Changes in environmental conditions could favor the genetic characteristics of some plant and animal species, and lead to evolution or alteration of the basic components of species . Evolution occurs faster when the period of any generation of a specie is shorter.
