Animals
Animals
General Questions
Habitats
Issues/Solutions
100
These animals became endangered due to many reasons, one of them being "dynamite fishing".

What is the Philippine crocodile?

100

These animals live in the Himalayan Mountains and are close to extinction due to humans destroying their habitat/hunting them.

What is the Hispid Hare?
100
This is the word we use to describe an animal species that doesn't have many left living in the wild.
What is endangered?
100

These habitats are dry and extrememe, they normally receive less than 6 inches of rain per year. There are very few plants in these habitats because most plants cannot survive without much water. Animals who live in these habitats often have special features that help them survive.

What are Deserts?
100
Anything that makes a habitat unhealthy and unsafe for the animals and plants living in it.
What is pollution?
200
These animals have feet which act like natural snow shoes (which help them adapt/live in their habitat of the mountains in Central Asia).
What are Snow Leopards?
200
These animals only live on Sumatra Island on volcanoes (off of the Atlantic Ocean in Indonesia).
What is the Sumatran Shrew?
200
True or false... any type of animal can be come endangered?
True
200

These habitats vary dramatically from the bottom to top. On the top, temperatures are colder, oxygen is scarcer, and the sun is harsher. As the climate changes, the plant and animal life between elevations also changes.


What are Mountain Ranges?
200
These are some of the things children can do to help out endangered animals.
What is learn about animals, recycle, not litter, and clean up animal habitats?
300
These animals live in forests high in the mountains. They have thick fur in order to survive temperatures that sometime fall below freezing.
What is the Mountain Gorilla?
300
This animal is endangered due to poaching for their small horns, which are used in Chinese medicine.
What is the Javan Rhino?
300
This is what we call the name of the place an animal lives.
What is habitat?
300

These habitats are found near the Earth's equator. In these habitats there isn't a dry season... it rains regularly throughout the year.

What is the Tropical Rain Forest?
300
This word is one thing people are trying to do in order to help save endangered animals. (example- think of the word used to describe saving water or electricity)
What is conservation?
400
There are only animals of this species left in captivity (less than 30 all together in the world). They have been nicknamed something due to their coat.
What is the Golden Tabby Tiger?
400
This animal is a very distant relative of the Giraffe and was first discovered in ancient Egypt.
What is the Okapi?
400
List at least 3 things animals need in their habitat to survive.
(answers will vary)
400

These habitats are home to the world's toughest trees. The evergreen trees in these habitats live through extreme weather conditions.

What are Coniferous Forests?
400
These do not only affect humans, but also animals. Eating things they are not supposed to, coming into contact with humans, or having to move or be forced into a new habitat with a different climate can cause these.
What are diseases?
500
These nearly extinct animals are the only primates alive that are 100% carnivorous.
What are Tarsiers?
500
This porpoise is the world's rarest marine animal. Their population is estimated to be under 100 and extinction is possible in 2018. 
What is the Vaquita?
500
This word is used to describe animals who normally live in the wild but are kept somewhere by humans. (like in zoos)
What is captivity?
500

These habitats are a unique part of ocean regions that provide a home for fish and other underwater animals. These habitats are found mostly in the tropics... they need to be warm and have bright sunlight all year long.

What are Coral Reefs?
500
This is what it is called when humans cut down trees and use other methods to destroy the forests which some animals call their home.

What is deforestation?