Zoo Roles and Trivia
Punnett Squares
SSPs
Conservation
Blunt Nosed Leopard Lizard Review
100
The Fresno Chaffee Zoo welcomed visitors from this many different states in 2025.
What is 50?
100
A phenotype describes this.
What are the observable traits of an organism?
100
SSP is an abbreviation of this zoo program.
What is a Species Survival Plan?
100
This large relative of vultures grew their population from 22 individuals to over 400 with the help of zoos.
What are California Condors?
100
This zoo is a leader in blunt nosed leopard lizard conservation and research.
Who is the Fresno Chaffee Zoo?
200
The Fresno Chaffee Zoo welcomed guests from this many different countries in 2025.
What is (over) 30?
200
This scientific tool can be used to predict phenotype or genotype of the offspring of two parents.
What is a Punnett Square?
200
This zoo is one of the many Association of Zoos and Aquariums members who participates in Species Survival Plans.
Who is the Fresno Chaffee Zoo?
200
Two species of this shelled creature had completely disappeared from their island home, but thanks to the hard work of zoos, their populations have been restored.
What are [Partula] snails?
200
Blunt nosed leopard lizards are endemic to this area.
What is California/the Central Valley?
300
The Fresno Chaffee Zoo welcomed this many guests last year.
What is (over) 800,000?
300
This six letter word describes alternative forms of the same gene.
What is an allele?
300
This is the approximate number of Species Survival Plan programs.
What is (almost) 300?
300
This challenging-to-pronounce wild horse was nearly extinct in the 1960s. Thanks to zoo breeding programs, it has been reintroduced to Mongolia, China, and Kazakhstan.
What is the Przewalski's (sha-VAL-skees) Horse?
300
This is the primary threat faced by blunt nosed leopard lizards in the wild.
What is habitat loss?
400
Besides conservation, this is one of the many other roles our zoo has.
What is (any one of the following): recreation, cultural resource, education, research, economic benefit, tourism destination.
400
In writing out alleles, capital and lowercase letters are used to represent these two different forms of a gene.
What are dominant and recessive?
400
This is the team of people in charge of managing each Species Survival Plan.
What is a Taxon Advisory Group?
400
This large desert antelope went extinct in the wild in the 1970s, but was reintroduced in the 1980s thanks to breeding efforts in zoos.
What is the Arabian Oryx?
400
This is the name of the endangered ecosystem in and around the Panoche Plateau that blunt nosed leopard lizards call home.
What is the San Joaquin Desert?
500
Having a Cultural Advisory Group helps the Fresno Chaffee Zoo do this.
What is ensure accurate and appropriate (cultural) information is provided at the Zoo.
500
If two lizards with long tails produce a short-tailed offspring, their genotype must be hiding this.
What is a recessive gene?
500
SSPs help preserve species by helping zoos work together to do this.
What is maintain healthy genetic diversity in zoo populations?
500
This small primate owes one-third of its wild population to zoo breeding programs. Thankfully, it was one of the first to have a Species Survival Plan.
What is the golden lion tamarin?
500
This is the scientific name of blunt nosed leopard lizards.
What is Gambelia sila?