Endangered Species
This black-and-white bear is a global symbol for conservation
What is a panda?
Rainforests produce much of this essential gas for life.
What is Oxygen?
The abbreviation “WWF” stands for this organization.
What is the World Wide Fund for Nature?
In the U.S., the ESA stands for this.
What is endangered species act?
This long-necked animal only sleeps about 30 minutes a day.
What is a giraffe?
The world’s largest land animal, threatened by ivory poaching.
What is an elephant?
Coral reefs are often called the “_____ of the sea.”
What are the rainforests of the sea?
Planting trees to restore forests is an example of habitat ______.
What is restoration?
CITES is an international treaty regulating the trade of what?
What are endangered species?
Beavers are known as “ecosystem engineers” because they build these.
What are dams?
This bird of prey was once endangered in the U.S. due to DDT pesticide use.
What is the Bald Eagle?
This type of ecosystem is crucial for migratory birds and filters water naturally.
What are wetlands?
This global event encourages people to turn off lights for one hour to support the planet.
What is Earth Hour?
This Canadian federal law protects migratory birds and their nests.
What is the Migratory Birds Convention Act?
This nocturnal primate from Madagascar has a long middle finger used for tapping on trees.
What is the aye-aye?
This cat, native to Russia’s Far East, is one of the rarest big cats on Earth.
What is the Amur Leopard?
The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet, threatening this iconic predator.
What is the polar bear?
Wildlife corridors are created to connect these fragmented natural areas.
What are habitats?
Canada signed the 1973 agreement with the U.S. to protect this large migratory mammal in Alaska and Yukon.
What is the Porcupine Caribou? (Porcupine Caribou Agreement)
This pronghorn species, found in parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan, is the second-fastest land mammal in the world, capable of reaching speeds up to 90 km/h.
What is the Pronghorn Antelope?
This critically endangered vaquita is a small species of what marine mammal.
What is a Porpoise?
The Amazon rainforest spans how many South American countries?
What is 9?
Name one major threat to orangutans caused by unsustainable agriculture.
What is palm oil plantations?
The Ramsar Convention is focused on protecting what type of ecosystem.
What are wetlands?
This “living fossil” marine animal, related to spiders, has blue blood used in medical testing.
What is the Horseshoe Crab?