WorksheetsEndangered Species-Life Science-Week 7
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Why are species disappearing? Choose the 4 correct answers.
Poaching
Deforestation
Whaling
Scientists aren't able to help every animal, so they become extinct.
People are catching animals and keeping them as pets.
What is the Unites States doing to protect species?
People are able to have endangered species as pets.
They are not concerned with animals becoming extinct.
They enacted the Endangered Species Act in the 1970s.
The law enforcers are taking the endangered species in.
What does the word endangered mean?
No longer existing
A lot of them around
In danger of no longer existing
Dangerous to other species
Who is known for having worked hard all his life to preserve natural places?
Theodore Roosevelt
Robert T. Bakker
Abraham Lincoln
John Muir
More than 30 years ago, tires were tossed into the ocean in a failed effort to do what?
Create a barrier
Create artificial reefs
Decrease the size of our landfills
Scare away certain kinds of fish
The Nature Conservancy created a scale to describe how endangered a species is. Which symbol represents a species that is known to be completely extinct?
X
H
1
2
What is one of the main reasons many plants and animals are endangered?
Disease
Fires destroy the animal's homes
Tourists
Deforestation
In the 1970s, the Unites States introduced the ________, which calls for a recovery plan to be created for each endangered species.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Clean Water Act
Endangered Species Act
National Environmental Policy Plan
Give another part of the Recovery Plan once a plant or animal has been identified as being in danger of extinction.
* Steps that will be done
* How much it will cost
* _____________________
Who will get to keep the animal
How long it will take
What kind of animal is it
Where will the animal go
If the cause is-efforts to protect the endangered species have failed, what would the effect be?
The species is now extinct
The species has recovered and is no longer endangered
The species remains endangered
The species still needs help
