Our fragile earth
Endangered & Extinct
Planet Basics
Animal Habitats
Oceans in Peril
100

This gas, produced by cars and factories, is the main contributor to global warming.

What is carbon dioxide?

100

This large black-and-white bear from China is known for eating bamboo.

What is the giant panda?
100

This is the only planet known to support life.

What is earth?

100

Polar bears live on ice in this cold region.

What is the arctic?

100

Coral reefs are threatened by warming oceans and this process, where corals lose their color.

What is bleaching?

200

The “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is mostly made up of this material.

What is plastic?


200

The dodo bird, now extinct, was native to this island nation in the Indian Ocean.

What is Mauritius?
200

This natural satellite orbits Earth and controls the tides.

What is the moon?

200

Kangaroos are native to this country.

What is australia?

200

Oil spills are especially damaging because oil does not do this in water.

What is mix/dissolve?
300

This international agreement, signed in 2015, set goals for reducing global carbon emissions.

What is the Paris Agreement?

300

These large sea creatures, including the blue species, are threatened by ship strikes and climate change.

What are whales?

300

This is the fourth planet from the sun

What is Mars?

300

Rainforests are hot, wet, and full of these tall plants.

What are trees?
300

The majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from tiny ocean plants called this.

What are phytoplankton?

400

Deforestation of this rainforest, often called “the lungs of the Earth,” is a major environmental concern.

What is the amazon?

400

This international treaty bans trade in endangered species

What is CITES?


400

About 70% of Earth’s surface is covered by this.

What is water?


400

Elephants can be found in the savannas of this continent.

What is the dessert?

400

This floating ring-shaped island, made from coral, is highly vulnerable to sea level rise.

What is an atoll?

500

The term for species that no longer exist anywhere on Earth.

What is extinct?


500

The last known passenger pigeon died in 1914 in this U.S. city’s zoo.

What is Cincinnati?

500

The invisible blanket of gases that surrounds Earth.

What is the atmosphere?

500

The famous pixar character, Nemo, likes to live in this.

What are coral reefs?

500

The deepest part of the world’s oceans, located in the Pacific near Guam.

What is the mariana trench?