This makes frogs species especially vulnerable to pollution and fungi.
What is moist skin?
100
A species can no longer be found anywhere on the earth, it is lost forever and irreversible.
What is biological extinction?
100
This kind of bird once abundant in the U.S., has gone extinct due to overhunting.
What is the passenger pigeon?
100
One of these is more likely than all the others to become endangered: fishes, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, plants, and birds.
What is fishes?
200
The blue ridge goldenrod has this color of flower:
What is yellow?
200
The video takes place in this part of the world.
What is central America?
200
A species with so few individuals that it could soon become extinct over some or all of its natural range.
What is endangered species?
200
This plant from Europe has been used to provide Digitalis for heart failure.
What is foxglove?
200
Elephants, rhinoceri, and rare plants and birds share this dangerous characteristic that makes them more vulnerable to extinction.
What is commercial value?
300
The gray fox is from this genus:
What is Urocyon?
300
This emblematic frogs species has gone extinct in Costa Rica.
What is the golden toad?
300
A species still abundant in its natural range, because of the declining numbers, it is likely to go extinct in the near future.
What is a threatened species?
300
90% of this endangered species lives in Indonesia and is currently threatened by smuggling (one of them can sell for $10,000!)
What is the orangutan?
300
The Bengal tiger, the bald eagle, and the grizzly bear are endangered mostly because of their eating habits.
What is feeding on a high trophic level?
400
This word describes the Gray Fox's eating habits.
What is omnivorous?
400
This sort of disease has been killing frogs in the rainforest recently.
What is fungus?
400
A species's usefulness to us because of the ecological and economic services it provides.
What is instrumental value?
400
This endangered animal lives in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and can often be found around power plants in Florida (they put out warm water). They are killed ofter by motorboats.
What is the manatee?
400
Certain orchids and the African Violet are endangered simply because they are hard to find in the wild.
What is rare?
500
The Grey Fox is competing with this nonnative fox species brought over from Europe.
What is the Red Fox?
500
What fraction of frog species are currently classified as endangered?
What is one-third?
500
All species have this because they play a part in the key ecosystem functions of energy flow and nutrient cycling, and keeping with the three principles of sustainability.
What is ecological value?
500
According to the World Wildlife Fund, these are the five most endangered animals in the wild. Name one.
What is the Javan rhino, the whooping crane, the California condor, the mountain gorilla, and the Siberian tiger?
500
The cockroach, the housefly, and the rat, despite being despised by humans, are still incredibly populous and nowhere near becoming endangered. This is because they can _____ very quickly.