Animals · Endangered Animals Study Notes

Precious friends we must protect — answers and explanations for all 100 questions. Cover the answer, have a guess first, then check the explanation. Want to play it as a quiz? Try it at the Quiz Playground!

Q. What is the name of this endangered animal?

Options: Panda · Zebra · Polar bear · Tiger

Answer: Panda

The panda is protected by the whole world.

Q. What is the name of this endangered animal?

Options: Polar bear · Koala · Camel · Penguin

Answer: Polar bear

As Earth warms, the polar bear's home of ice disappears.

Q. What do we call animals whose numbers have dropped so low they may vanish?

Options: Pests · Pets · Livestock · Endangered animals

Answer: Endangered animals

Tigers, otters, and gorillas are among the world's endangered animals.

Q. What can we do to protect endangered animals?

Options: Care for and protect nature · Throw trash in their habitat · Secretly catch and keep them · Not care at all

Answer: Care for and protect nature

Protecting nature is the way to protect animals.

Q. What is the name of this endangered animal?

Options: Deer · Raccoon dog · Tiger · Wild boar

Answer: Tiger

Wild tigers have vanished from many places they once roamed — that makes them all the more precious.

🦴 Q. What does 'extinct' mean?

Options: Getting smaller · Sleeping · One kind of living thing disappearing completely · Moving house

Answer: One kind of living thing disappearing completely

It's a sad thing — we can never see them again.

🐾 Q. What do we call animals at risk of vanishing as their numbers drop?

Options: All wild animals · Endangered animals · Livestock · Pets

Answer: Endangered animals

These animals truly need protection!

🌳 Q. What's the biggest reason animals become endangered?

Options: They sleep a lot · They're too pretty · They're slow · People destroy their homes (forests and seas)

Answer: People destroy their homes (forests and seas)

Habitat destruction is the biggest cause.

🐦 Q. Which animal is already gone from Earth and can never be seen again?

Options: Panda · Dodo · Tiger · Elephant

Answer: Dodo

The dodo! Living on an island with no predators, it lost the need to fly — and within 100 years of people arriving, it was gone.

❌ Q. Which is NOT a good thing to do to protect endangered animals?

Options: Catch rare animals and keep them · Don't buy or sell animals carelessly · Cut down on trash · Protect their habitat

Answer: Catch rare animals and keep them

Wild animals belong in the wild!

🏞️ Q. What do we call a wide area kept just as nature made it to protect animals?

Options: A farm · A zoo · A theme park · A nature reserve (national park)

Answer: A nature reserve (national park)

A safe home for wild animals!

🐯 Q. Which big cat once roamed the mountains of Korea but has nearly vanished?

Options: Cheetah · Tiger · Only the leopard · Lion

Answer: Tiger

There were once many, but now they're almost gone.

🐻 Q. Which bear with a crescent mark on its chest is being brought back to Korea's mountains?

Options: Polar bear · Brown bear · Panda · Asiatic black bear

Answer: Asiatic black bear

A crescent moon on its chest! A restoration project is underway.

🕊️ Q. Which endangered bird visits Korea in winter and performs an elegant dance?

Options: Magpie · Crane · Sparrow · Pigeon

Answer: Crane

The crane, a protected natural treasure!

🦦 Q. Which protected river mammal can only live where the water is clean?

Options: Raccoon dog · Squirrel · Otter · Cat

Answer: Otter

The otter, which needs clear water to live!

🐦 Q. Which vanishing bird with a spoon-shaped bill lives on tidal flats and rivers?

Options: Duck · Sparrow · Spoonbill · Chicken

Answer: Spoonbill

The spoon-billed spoonbill is endangered too!

🦊 Q. Where are red foxes being brought back after disappearing from Korea?

Options: The middle of the city · Mountain regions · The desert · The sea

Answer: Mountain regions

A fox restoration project is underway!

🐐 Q. Where does the long-tailed goral live?

Options: The city · The desert · The sea · Rugged rocky mountains

Answer: Rugged rocky mountains

The endangered goral, living on steep rocky cliffs!

🐼 Q. Which black-and-white bear eats bamboo and became the symbol of world conservation?

Options: Polar bear · Giant panda · Asiatic black bear · Brown bear

Answer: Giant panda

The panda of China! Protection efforts are slowly bringing it back.

🐻‍❄️ Q. Which white Arctic bear is in trouble as melting ice shrinks its hunting grounds?

Options: Asiatic black bear · Grizzly bear · Panda · Polar bear

Answer: Polar bear

Climate change is shrinking the ice and making life hard.

🦏 Q. Which big plant-eater is hunted by poachers for the horn on its nose?

Options: Giraffe · Rhino · Hippo · Elephant

Answer: Rhino

It's hunted for its horn, putting it in danger.

🐘 Q. Which long-nosed animal is hunted for its ivory (big teeth)?

Options: Wild boar · Hippo · Elephant · Rhino

Answer: Elephant

Poaching for ivory is a huge problem.

🦧 Q. Which ape is called the 'person of the forest' and is endangered as rainforests vanish?

Options: Squirrel · Orangutan · Koala · Panda

Answer: Orangutan

When the forest goes, the orangutan goes too.

🦍 Q. Which big ape, so much like us, lives in the mountains of Africa?

Options: Zebra · Fox · Gorilla · Leopard

Answer: Gorilla

Mountain gorillas are endangered too.

🐨 Q. Which Australian animal hangs slowly in trees and is endangered as its home shrinks?

Options: Koala · Raccoon dog · Squirrel · Panda

Answer: Koala

The koala, which eats only eucalyptus leaves!

🐆 Q. Which animal is fastest on land but endangered as its numbers fall?

Options: Cheetah · Turtle · Elephant · Snail

Answer: Cheetah

It's fast, but its shrinking habitat puts it in danger.

🦓 Q. Which relative of the horse on the African plains has unique stripes on each one?

Options: Zebra (some species) · Donkey · Pony · Cow

Answer: Zebra (some species)

Some zebra species are endangered.

🐢 Q. Which sea reptile is endangered by fishing nets and ocean pollution?

Options: Fur seal · Sea turtle · Penguin · Dolphin

Answer: Sea turtle

It's in danger from mistaking plastic for food!

🐬 Q. Where does the vaquita, the rarest dolphin in the world, live?

Options: The sea · A river · A lake · The desert

Answer: The sea

Only a few dozen vaquitas are left!

🌊 Q. Which slow-swimming sea mammal eats water plants and is said to be the model for mermaids?

Options: Whale shark · Octopus · Dugong (manatee) · Shark

Answer: Dugong (manatee)

The gentle dugong needs protection too!

🐧 Q. Which bird lives in Antarctica and is endangered as the ice melts?

Options: Sparrow · Eagle · Emperor penguin · Ostrich

Answer: Emperor penguin

Climate change threatens penguins too.

🦅 Q. Which big bird soars on huge wings and has fallen to very low numbers?

Options: Swallow · Pigeon · Condor · Sparrow

Answer: Condor

The California condor only recovered thanks to protection!

🦔 Q. Which curious animal, covered head to toe in scales, is endangered by poaching?

Options: Pangolin · Hedgehog · Turtle · Armadillo

Answer: Pangolin

The pangolin is the most trafficked animal in the world!

🚫 Q. What do we call the terrible act of secretly catching or trafficking animals?

Options: Poaching (trafficking) · Observing · Raising · Protecting

Answer: Poaching (trafficking)

Poaching speeds up extinction!

🪓 Q. What happens to the animals living in a forest when it's cut down?

Options: They lose their home · Their numbers grow · Nothing changes · They get healthier

Answer: They lose their home

A forest is home to countless lives!

🥤 Q. Why is plastic thrown into the sea dangerous for sea animals?

Options: They mistake it for food or get tangled in it · The water gets saltier · The water gets colder · It's too pretty

Answer: They mistake it for food or get tangled in it

Turtles and whales suffer because of plastic!

🌡️ Q. How does climate change — Earth getting hotter — affect animals?

Options: Their living conditions change and life gets harder · They all get healthier · No effect at all · They get more food

Answer: Their living conditions change and life gets harder

Polar bears and penguins have an especially hard time!

🐘 Q. Why is it a problem to want animals' horns, hides, and ivory?

Options: Animal numbers grow · It kills animals and drives extinction · Animals like it · It's good for the environment

Answer: It kills animals and drives extinction

They lose their lives for decorations.

🐸 Q. Animals brought in from abroad sometimes threaten native animals. What do we call them?

Options: Pets · Invasive species · Livestock · Endangered species

Answer: Invasive species

Like bullfrogs and nutria!

🏭 Q. What do we call water and soil getting dirty from pesticides and factory waste?

Options: Pollution · Cycling · Purifying · Protecting

Answer: Pollution

Pollution! When water and soil get dirty, the animals living there sicken first — and it reaches our dinner table in the end.

💚 Q. What can we do for endangered animals?

Options: Get rid of forests · Dirty the water · Care for the environment and cut down on trash · Catch animals

Answer: Care for the environment and cut down on trash

Small actions save animals!

📜 Q. What's the point of officially listing a species as endangered?

Options: To protect it by law so no one can catch it carelessly · To build a zoo · To look at it · To sell it for a lot

Answer: To protect it by law so no one can catch it carelessly

The law protects animals!

🐣 Q. What do we call bringing back an animal that nearly disappeared?

Options: Hunting · Restoration (breeding and release) · Capturing · Selling

Answer: Restoration (breeding and release)

Like bringing back the Asiatic black bear and the crested ibis!

🐦 Q. Which rice-field bird was successfully brought back to fly in Korea again?

Options: Crested ibis · Chicken · Duck · Sparrow

Answer: Crested ibis

The crested ibis restoration was a success!

🦁 Q. What can be a good role for a zoo?

Options: Protecting, studying, and breeding endangered animals · Getting rid of forests · Bothering animals · Only making money

Answer: Protecting, studying, and breeding endangered animals

A good zoo works hard at conservation!

🌏 Q. Why does 'biodiversity' matter?

Options: One kind is enough · Lots of animals are noisy · Many living things help each other and keep nature healthy · It doesn't matter

Answer: Many living things help each other and keep nature healthy

Earth is healthy when many lives fit together!

🕸️ Q. What happens to nature when one animal disappears?

Options: It gets better · Nothing happens · Animal numbers grow · The food chain wobbles and other creatures are affected

Answer: The food chain wobbles and other creatures are affected

Every life is connected like a web!

📄 Q. Which animals does saving paper help?

Options: Only ocean fish · It doesn't help · Only insects · Animals living in the forest

Answer: Animals living in the forest

Paper is made from trees. Saving it protects forests!

💡 Q. Why does saving electricity help polar bears?

Options: Saving energy slows global warming · Polar bears use electricity · The Arctic gets colder · It doesn't

Answer: Saving energy slows global warming

Saving energy protects the ice!

🛍️ Q. What's good about using a shopping bag and cutting down on disposables?

Options: Animals get faster · Less trash means cleaner homes for animals · It doesn't matter · Animals get full

Answer: Less trash means cleaner homes for animals

Small habits, big power!

📞 Q. What should you do if you find an endangered or injured wild animal?

Options: Take it home · Force-feed it · Chase it · Don't touch it — tell an adult or an agency

Answer: Don't touch it — tell an adult or an agency

Call a wildlife rescue center!

🐦 Q. Why did the flightless dodo disappear?

Options: Too much food · It was cold · Because of people and the animals they brought · It was too fast

Answer: Because of people and the animals they brought

It vanished when people came to the island where it had no predators.

🕊️ Q. Which bird once darkened the sky in huge flocks but went extinct?

Options: Magpie · Sparrow · Passenger pigeon · Swallow

Answer: Passenger pigeon

Reckless hunting wiped it out completely.

🦣 Q. Which long-haired ancient elephant vanished after the Ice Age?

Options: Mammoth · Panda · Hippo · Rhino

Answer: Mammoth

The shaggy mammoth went extinct long ago.

🐯 Q. Which two big cats have essentially vanished from Korea?

Options: Lion and cheetah · Lynx and leopard cat · Tiger and leopard · Jaguar and puma

Answer: Tiger and leopard

Wild tigers and leopards have nearly disappeared from Korea's mountains.

🐾 Q. Why is it more dangerous that endangered animals mostly have few babies?

Options: There's lots of food · They're fast · The babies are big · Once numbers drop, it's hard to build them back up

Answer: Once numbers drop, it's hard to build them back up

They recover slowly, so we must be extra careful!

🏅 Q. Why do countries designate 'natural treasures'?

Options: To catch them · To protect rare and precious life and nature · They're expensive · To look at them

Answer: To protect rare and precious life and nature

It protects precious nature like cranes and otters!

🐕 Q. Which of these is NOT an endangered animal?

Options: Panda · Tiger · Sea turtle · A pet dog at home

Answer: A pet dog at home

Pet dogs aren't endangered!

🐻‍❄️ Q. Which animal is especially threatened by 'climate change'?

Options: House cat · Polar bear · Pigeon · Sparrow

Answer: Polar bear

When the ice melts, polar bears can't hunt!

🎋 Q. What does a panda do most of the day?

Options: Hunt · Only sleep · Swim · Eat bamboo

Answer: Eat bamboo

It eats bamboo for more than ten hours a day!

🐘 Q. What is most connected to why elephants are endangered?

Options: They're slow · They sleep a lot · Poaching for ivory and shrinking habitat · Too many are born

Answer: Poaching for ivory and shrinking habitat

Ivory poaching and forest destruction are the problem.

🌊 Q. What should we cut down on for sea animals?

Options: Plastic trash · Oxygen · Water · Sunlight

Answer: Plastic trash

Let's cut down the plastic thrown into the sea!

🚨 Q. Among endangerment levels, which is the most serious?

Options: Least concern · Numbers growing · Safe · About to vanish from the wild (critically endangered)

Answer: About to vanish from the wild (critically endangered)

The animals that need protecting most urgently!

🐼 Q. What is the symbol animal of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)?

Options: Panda · Elephant · Tiger · Polar bear

Answer: Panda

The panda! Everybody loves it, and being black and white it prints clearly anywhere — so it became the face of conservation.

💚 Q. What's good about learning about endangered animals?

Options: You can make money · You can catch animals · You can clear forests · You come to care about protecting them together

Answer: You come to care about protecting them together

Knowing leads to loving, and loving leads to protecting!

🏞️ Q. What do animals need most to live comfortably?

Options: Tall buildings · Cars · A clean, safe habitat · Lots of people

Answer: A clean, safe habitat

You need a home (habitat) to live!

🦌 Q. What is a 'wildlife crossing' for?

Options: So animals can cross the road safely · So people can go faster · To throw trash · To hold water

Answer: So animals can cross the road safely

It's a bridge for animals over the highway!

🌲 Q. What does one tree we plant give to animals?

Options: Toys · Shoes · A home and food · Clothes

Answer: A home and food

A tree is a haven for countless lives!

🦝 Q. Why shouldn't you feed wild animals carelessly?

Options: Food is expensive · It doesn't matter · They can lose the ability to find food themselves · Animals hate it

Answer: They can lose the ability to find food themselves

Wild animals stay healthy by living on their own!

🏞️ Q. Which is NOT a rule to follow in a national park?

Options: Give snacks to wild animals · Take your trash with you · Don't pick the plants · Stay on the marked trails

Answer: Give snacks to wild animals

Human food is harmful to animals!

🌍 Q. Who does protecting endangered animals help in the end?

Options: Only the animals · Every living thing, people included · No one · Only companies

Answer: Every living thing, people included

Healthy nature belongs to all of us!

🦦 Q. Which river animals were once common but are now hard to find?

Options: Carp and catfish · Crucian carp and loach · Frogs and tadpoles · Otters and softshell turtles

Answer: Otters and softshell turtles

With less clean water, otters have become rare.

📺 Q. What's good about watching animal documentaries?

Options: You can catch animals · You understand and care for animals and nature · You can clear forests · You can buy animals

Answer: You understand and care for animals and nature

The more you know, the more you want to protect!