Legislature
T&E in PA
Vocabulary
Species needs
Just for fun
100

This legislation allows for the identification, protection, and recovery of threatened and endangered birds, insects, fish, reptiles, mammals, crustaceans, flowers, grasses, and trees.

What is the Endangered Species act?

100

Part of the deer family, was extirpated from the state due to market hunting, habitat loss, and lack of wildlife protection laws.

What is elk?

100

A species is no longer present on the planet

What is extinct?

100

Nutritious substances that people or animals eat in order to maintain life and growth. Ex. Nuts, berries, meat 

What is food?

100

The insecticide that impacted several species of birds of prey in the 1960s

What is DDT?

200

The state agency responsible for managing and protecting wildlife and their habitats while promoting hunting and trapping for current and future generations

What is the Pennsylvania Game Commission?

200

The only diurnal species out of 8 total in Pennsylvania, nest on reclaimed strip mines, listed as endangered due to its small breeding population and limited distribution

What is Short-eared Owl?

200

The variation of life on earth

What is Biodiversity?
200

A colorless liquid that is the basis of the fluids of living organisms

What is water?

200

The species in the cover image of the Story Map

What is Allegheny Woodrat?

300

The year Congress passed the ESA.

What is 1973?

300

White marsh bird listed as endangered in Pennsylvania

What is Great Egret?

300

How different species rely on one another to fulfill their basic needs

What is interdependence?

300

A place giving temporary protection from the elements or danger. Ex. a den, nest, or cave

What is shelter?

300

Two species that have been extirpated from Pennsylvania and have not been recovered

What is Timber Wolf and Mountain Lion?

400

The two federal agencies that administer the Endangered Species Act

What is USFWS and NOAA?

400

Experienced a dramatic recovery after being nearly wiped out due to DDT, was moved from the endangered to threatened list in 2019 in Pennsylvania 

What is Peregrine Falcon?

400

When a species is no longer found throughout its range, but still exists elsewhere in the world.

What is extirpated?

400

An area where the necessities of life must be found in order to maintain survival. Larger organisms need more of this than smaller organisms.

What is space? 

400

A non-regulatory, proactive conservation blueprint to prevent species of greatest conservation need from requiring federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.

What is Pennsylvania's Wildlife Action Plan?

500

The two pieces of legislature that protect animals in Pennsylvania

What is Title 34 Game and Wildlife Code and Title 58 Pennsylvania Code?

500

An endangered mammal in Pennsylvania, insectivore, true hibernator.

What is Indiana Bat?

500

Species listed as threatened or endangered

What is species of greatest conservation need?

500

The place or environment where a species naturally or lives and grows. It satisfies the 4 main needs a species requires to survive.

What is a habitat?

500

The area from which Rocky Mountain elk were transported, and reintroduced to Pennsylvania. 

What is Yellowstone National Park?

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