Laysan Rail 1
Laysan Rail 2
California Condor 1
California Condor 2
Coelacanth 1
100
Name the classification for the Laysan Rail.
What is vertebrate, bird?
100
Name the conservation status for the Laysan Rail.
What is EXTINCT?
100
Name the classification for the California Condor.
What is vertebrate, bird?
100
Name the conservation status for the California condor.
What is ENDANGERED?
100
Name the classification for the California condor.
What is vertebrate, fish?
200
Describe the Laysan Rail (physical characteristics).
What is it is a small bird (6"), brown with dark streaks, red eyes and yellow beak, long legs?
200
Name reasons why the Laysan Rail had trouble.
What are habitat destruction caused by introduced rabbits and guinea pigs, rabbits eating all the plants and turning it into a dusty, dry place (killed insects eaten by the Laysan Rail)? Black rats killed the last ones on Midway Atoll.
200
Name the habitat of the California condor and where it is from.
What is rocky areas, pine cone forests, oak forests along the Pacific coastline of the United States?
200
Name reasons why the California condor has had trouble.
What are reduction of food supply due to reduction of large mammals in North America? More recently trapping, shooting, egg collecting, and lead poisoning from eating carrion with lead shot (bullets) in it.
200
Name some unique things about the physical characteristics of the Coelacanth.
What is it has a hinged skull that allows it to lift the top part of its head when it is feeding and it has a tail with three lobes/parts?
300
Describe the habitat of the Laysan Rail and where it is from.
What is grassy areas/thickets on Laysan Island in Hawaii?
300
Name anything done to try to save the Laysan Rail.
What is nothing done in time. Tried to get rid of rabbits to return the bird to Laysan, but it was too late.
300
Name the foods eaten by the California condor.
What are dead things?! Carrion (dead animals).
300
Explain how power lines affect the California condor.
What is they can collide with/hit them and become injured or killed?
300
Describe the habitat of the Coelacanth and where is it from.
What is it lives in very deep waters? What is fossils found on every continent except Antarctica (current wild fish found off the coast of South Africa)?
400
Name foods eaten by the Laysan Rail.
What are flies, moths, scraps of meat from dead seabirds, small invertebrates, eggs?
400
How did the US Navy contribute to the problems of the Laysan Rail?
What is a Navy ship had black rats on it and released them on Midway Atoll during World War II? The rats killed the few remaining birds before they could be reintroduced to Laysan Island.
400
Name something important about the California condors' behavior.
What is pairs mate for life?
400
Name things being done to save the California condor.
What are captive breeding and release programs, double-clutching (having birds sit on two eggs at one time), raising chicks in captivity using puppets and releasing them into wild?
400
Name foods eaten by the Coelacanth.
What are they are drift-feeders, eating whatever comes by, including eels, fish, skates?
500
Name something significant about the behavior of the Laysan Rail.
What is it was flightless (could not fly)? What it is was very aggressive with its food and would defend it from others?
500
The scientific name for the Laysan Rail is Porzana palmeri. Name a way to remember it.
What is "palmeri" has "palm" in it and Hawaii has lots of palm trees?
500
California condors do something odd to cool their bodies. What is it called and describe how it works.
What is UROHYDROSIS? They urinate on their own legs to cool them and the cooled blood circulates and cools their bodies.
500
The scientific name for the California condor is Gymnogyps californianus. Name a way to remember it.
What is California?!
500
The Coelacanth reproduces/makes babies through OVOVIVIPARY. Describe what this means.
What is their young develop inside the mother and she gives birth to live newborn baby fish? This is very rare for fish.
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