Wild Horses Unit 2 Week 4

If the cause is Wild horses lost access to food and water, what is the effect?

• local residents fed the wild mustangs

• ranchers captured and tamed the mustangs

• thousands of mustangs were killed

Which word best describes Dayton Hyde?

• Determined

• Easygoing

• Greedy

Where were the wild mustangs when Hyde first saw them?

• in pens waiting to be killed for pet food

• on the range, starving to death in the cold

• in government feedlots waiting to be adopted

Dayton Hyde moved the band of wild horses to

• a working ranch near Cheyenne

• a special place in South Dakota

• his family's land in Michigan

Why did Dayton Hyde decide to move the horses?

• He thought they looked miserable and hungry

• His uncle told him to

• He had always dreamed of wild horses

To make sure the wild horses did not wander into the neighbors' wheat fields, Dayton Hyde had to

• watch them constantly

• move the horses to canyons

• build miles of fences

What does the word descendants mean?

• Owners

• Relatives

• Servants

The word threatened means

• cold

• all alone

• in danger

The word fragile means

• beautiful

• easily damaged

• valuable

Which sentence from the article supports the idea that wild horses were in danger of becoming extinct?

• The balance between people and nature is othen fragile.

• People wanted the land for ranches and farms.

• By the early 1970s, fewer than 20,000 mustangs remained in the western United States.