Endangered Species Awareness: Quiz!
Below is an Endangered Species Awareness Quiz. In the world today, according to conservationists, there are a lot of animals that are facing extinction-level threats, and there are measures that have been put in place to safeguard them. If you are a believer in protecting our animals, this quiz is for you. Be sure to give it a try!
- 1.What is something you learned in the section about the Galapagos tortoises?
- A.
Mountain lions ate the Galapagos tortoise eggs.
- B.
The tortoises killed all the rats on the Galapagos Islands.
- C.
The number of Galapagos tortoises has gone down.
- D.
Galapagos tortoises do not live long compared with us.
- 2.How are mountain gorillas similar to humans?
- A.
Gorillas and humans are both primates.
- B.
They both have opposable thumbs and walk on two legs.
- C.
Just like people, the baby gorilla can't walk until it is one year old.
- D.
All of the above
- 3.Which of the following is a reason that animals are endangered?
- A.
People kill animals for fur or souvenirs.
- B.
People replant the forest they cut down.
- C.
People place animals in zoos to breed them.
- D.
People donate money to charities.
- 4.Which of the following restates the main idea of page 29?
- A.
Animals are disappearing because of poachers and farmers.
- B.
We should learn everything that we can about endangered animals so we can help them.
- C.
Whooping cranes are some of the most beautiful birds found in North America.
- 5.A word that means the same thing as thriving is:
- A.
Dwindling
- B.
Growing
- C.
Fading
- D.
Increasing
- 6.Read the following sentence. "Elephants are endangered because of two problems - poachers and farmers...poachers kill elephants for their valuable ivory tusks." Poachers are -
- A.
People who are concerned for animals.
- B.
People who study animals.
- C.
People who bring animals food.
- D.
People who kill animals illegally.
- 7.The base word of feasting is:
- A.
East
- B.
Fast
- C.
Sting
- D.
Feast
- 8.Which of the following words means the OPPOSITE of exotic?
- A.
Different
- B.
Unusual
- C.
Normal
- D.
Strange
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