Keystone Animals
Food Chain Animals
Habitats
Endangered Plants
Near Threatened and Extinct in the Wild
100
This animal is responsible for keeping bamboo forests in check.
What is a Panda?
100
Sharks are kept in check by these mammals.
What are orca whales?
100
This forest is losing three football fields every 3 seconds.
What is the Amazon rainforest?
100
Because of flower picking and pollution, these rare plants that grow in the bogs of the American south have been greatly reduced.
What is a Venus Fly Trap?
100
Jaguar, reddish egret, pistachio.
What are three near-threatened species?
200
Without these, the sea urchins would destroy kelp forests
What is a Sea Otter?
200
These are the middle creatures of the food chain, between the top predators and the food chain starter.
What are food chain links?
200
These creatures are being destroyed by pollution, anchors, and scientific observation.
What is a coral reef?
200
These African trees are extinct in the wild though they are often used in gardens.
What is a woods cycad?
200
Due to efforts to stop poaching, these animals are no longer endangered.
What are Pandas?
300
You see these animals on the beach all the time. They eat snails, keeping the seagrass nice and healthy.
What is a common crab?
300
These mammals help farmers by eating spiders, mosquitoes, and other bugs.
What are bats?
300
This big swamp holds crocodiles, caimans, and other creatures which are being destroyed by pollution, logging, city expansion, and over-farming.
What are the Everglades?
300
These giant ancient trees have been overlogged in the Pacific Northwest.
What are Coast Redwoods?
300
These parrots are from Pureto Rico and nearly went extinct.
What are iguacas?
400
By eating krill these creatures keep the krill numbers in-check. With too many krill, there wouldn't be enough micro-plankton to start the food chain.
What is a baleen whale?
400
If these animals didn't drink blood, then the animals that eat them (spiders & bats) would run out of food and die, majorly disrupting the animal web.
Why do mosquitoes drink blood?
400
This often-used food product is destroying rainforest habitat.
What is Palm Oil?
400
These giant trees have been named by famous generals, such as Gerneral Sherman.
What are Giant Sequoias?
400
These cute river creatures are endangered in some parts of their range, but are recovering in others.
What is the European river otter.
500
These animals are responsible for keeping the savannah in balance. They consume plant-eaters before they destroy all of the plants.
What is a lion?
500
These may mess up the food chain very badly. Examples are sugar cane toad, zebra muscles, Asian carp.
What are invasive species in the United States?
500
These animals, most commonly crows, racoons, squirels, stray cats and dogs live in the city and can be found raiding your trash.
What is an urban animal?
500
These trees are being attacked by bark beetles.
What are Elm trees?
500
These native animals are now being bred for meat, but are rare to see in the wild.
What is the American Bison.