5th Grade U3L1 Pre-assessment (Extinction)

The orangutan is endangered because _______________.

• there are too many

• the forests they live in are being cut down

• they can find food easily

• there are no more left alive

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Could you find a woolly mammoth alive today?

• Yes, many woolly mammoths are alive on all continents today.

• Yes, a few woolly mammoths live in zoos.

• c. Yes, a few woolly mammoths are alive in the wild.

• No, woolly mammoths are not alive today.

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Which animal might be endangered right now?

• woolly mammoth

• Asian Carp

• Gorillas

• dinosaurs

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4. Which is not a reason that an animal might go extinct?

• lose of habitat

• pollution

• excess food supply

• hunting

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5. A bird called the dodo is extinct. That means there are _____.

• a. many living dodos

• b. dodos alive in zoos and museums

• c. no more living dodos

• d. only a few dodos still alive

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6. A man says he took a photograph of a living dinosaur! Could this be true?

• No, dinosaurs died out before people lived.

• No, all dinosaur photographs are in museums.

• Yes, the photograph could be very old.

• Yes, he might have taken the photograph himself.

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7. Which animal is extinct?

• a

• b

• c

• d

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8. In which category is the saber-toothed cat found?

• a. thriving

• b. threatened

• c. endangered

• d. extinct

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9. Dylan sorted animals into groups in the chart below.

How did Dylan sort the animals in the chart?

• a. by what they eat

• b. by the number of legs

• c. by extinct and living

• d. by their ability to fly

10. Can an animal go from being extinct to being endangered? 

• Yes, if two different animal mate, they can breed an extinct animal

• No, extinct means that all the animal of that species have died out.

• Yes, extinct means there are only a few left.

• Yes, endangered animals always become extinct.

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