Wordwise
Which word does not belong in this group?
a. forest
b. mountain
c. panda
d. rainforest
c. panda
The animals in the nature reserve play _____ with one another.
a. bad
b. well
c. gentle
b. well
Which percentage of the giant panda population lives in the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries in China?
a. 50%
b. 30%
c. 70%
b. 30%
Juliana Machado Ferreira uses her _______ to find out which area of the rain forest birds come from.
a. experience with wildlife trafficking
b. love and admiration of all wildlife
c. knowledge of biology and DNA
c. knowledge of biology and DNA
Which of the following words are related to an animal's life in captivity?
a. wild, forest
b. metre, area
c. worker, reserve
c. worker, reserve
Which sentence uses a quantifier incorrectly?
a. There are few pandas living in the wild today.
b. How many nature reserves are there in this area?
c. There are very little nature reserves in this part of the world.
c. There are very little nature reserves in this part of the world.
What do Bactrian and Dromedary camels have in common?
a. They can both drink a lot of water.
b. Many of both types of camel live in the wild today.
c. They both have two humps.
a. They can both drink a lot of water.
Complete the quote.
'Losing populations or species could bring imbalance into entire _______.'
a. rain forests
b. ecosystems
c. areas
b. ecosystems
_______ projects help to save animals.
a. Conservation
b. Endangered
c. Area
a. Conservation
Which adjective/adverb pair is correct?
a. quiet—quietly
b. good—goodly
c. fast—fastly
a. quiet—quietly
According to the reading, A Wild Animal Isn't a Pet, one reason that wild animals often die when people keep them as pets is because they become very unhappy.
a. False
b. True
b. True
What is another word for 'wildlife trafficker'?
a. police
b. conservationist
c. poacher
c. poacher
When people _______ animals, they exchange them for money.
a. sell
b. return
c. grow
a. sell
You can use ____ with uncountable nouns (things you can't count.)
a. how much and little
b. how much and few
c. how many and little
a. how much and little
Which of the following is not something that Ami Vitale says pandas need in order to live in the wild?
a. bamboo to eat
b. costumes
c. a lot of habitat (space to live in)
b. costumes
According to Meet Juliana Machado Ferreira, what is Ferreira's main work and mission?
a. to combat wildlife trafficking
b. to teach people about the wildlife of Brazil
c. to show people that they are part of the ecosystem
a. to combat wildlife trafficking