Saving America's Wolves

an animal that kills and eats other animals

• pack

• endangered

• predator

related to the protection of animals, plants, and natural resources

• extinction

• conservation

Groups of living and nonliving things that affect each other

• keystone species

• pack

• ecosystems

no longer existing

• colony

• extinct

animals that hunt other animals for food

• predators

• species

In this article, author Kristin Lewis speaks to “you” the reader as though you were a wolf. By doing this, Lewis

• shows that wolves understand English.

• puts the reader in the place of a wolf, which helps build sympathy and concern for wolves.

According to the article, what caused wolves to disappear from the U.S.?

• A disease killed almost all the wolves

• There were not enough elk for wolves to eat.

• Humans killed nearly all the wolves.

In this article, Lewis portrays wolves as

• frightening beasts that threaten humans.

• friendly, playful, and cute.

• powerful, beautiful, and often misunderstood.

Lewis’s main purpose for writing this article was likely to

• explain how wolves threaten humans.

• educate readers about wolves and encourage them to protect wolves.

What is an ecosystem?

• an animal in a storybook

• all of the living and nonliving things in a particular environment