The Vanishing Beast & Return of the Buffalo

A geological period during which ice thickly covered vast masses of land

• glaciers

• Ice Age

• mastodon

• ecosystem

An unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption

• tsunami

• brucellosis

• dire

• exterminated

A contagious deadly bacterial infection that affects cattle and buffalo

• extreminated

• dire

• adaptable

• brucellosis

The Assiniboine, Sioux, Hidatsa, Pawnee, Lakota, and Blackfeet are names of American Indian ______ who lived in the Great Plains and lived off buffalo as a primary food source.

• hides

• tribes

Being able to adjust to different changes or conditions in your environment

• ecosystem

• adaptable

An extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years while moving very slowly

• mastodon

• glacier

This word means causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible

• mastadon

• extermination

• ecosystem

• dire

When an organism has been destroyed totally, or gotten rid of

• ecosystem

• exterminated

a system or group of interconnected elements, formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment

• ecosystem

• mastadon

A large elephant-like mammal who flourished during the Ice Age in North America

• mastodon

• glaciers