Desert
This is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara?
The Amazon rainforest is primarily located on this continent.
What is South America?
The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of this country.
What is Australia?
This term describes animals that are active at night.
What is nocturnal?
This U.S. park was the first national park in the world.
What is Yellowstone?
Deserts are defined by low precipitation, usually less than this amount annually.
What is 25 centimeters (10 inches)?
This layer of the rainforest contains most of the tallest trees and sunlight.
What is the Canopy?
This ocean zone receives little to no sunlight and begins around 200 meters deep.
What is the twilight (mesopelagic) zone?
This keystone species was reintroduced to Yellowstone in 1995.
What is the gray wolf?
This species became the poster child for conservation after population collapse.
What is the bald eagle?
Some desert plants wait THIS long to bloom after rain.
What is 20–50 years?
Rainforests cover less than this percentage of Earth’s surface but house over half its species.
What is 6%?
This microscopic organism produces over half of Earth’s oxygen.
This animal has the strongest bite force relative to body size.
What is the Tasmanian devil?
This U.S. president is known as the “father of the national parks.”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This desert animal survives without drinking water its entire life.
What is a kangaroo rat?
This agricultural practice is a major driver of tropical deforestation.
what is slash and burn agriculture?
This process causes corals to expel their symbiotic algae due to heat stress.
What is coral bleaching?
This animal can survive being frozen solid and thawed back to life.
What is the wood frog?
This 1973 U.S. law protects endangered and threatened species.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
This is the largest desert in the world.
This many acres of rainforest are lost every minute.
What is 27 acres?
This animal has three hearts & blue blood,
What is an octopus?
This animal can sleep while swimming and breathe using half its brain at a time.
What is a dolphin?
This single human activity threatens more species than climate change, pollution, and invasive species combined.
What is habitat destruction?