Endangered Species Quiz

The TESS Threatened Species online database lists threatened and endangered species from around the world.

Here is a selection of 900 animals from the database. Use it to make your own database*.

For each animal your database will show:

• name (some animals have more than one)
• group (mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, fishes)
• home (where it comes from)
• status (threatened or endangered)

Asking Questions

Below are some questions. It would be very hard to look through the list of 900 animals to find the answers, but a database makes it easy!

First decide which field (or fields) to search, then type which words to search for.

For question 1, type 'bear' into the 'name' box and 'threatened' into the 'status' box.

You should get four results. But two of them aren't bears! Can you see what happened?

Now answer the rest of the questions!

Q1. How many kinds of bear are listed as 'threatened'?

Q2. How many Australian species are endangered?

Q3. How many of those are birds?

Q4. Name 7 kinds of whale on the endangered list.

Q5. Which species of eagle is threatened?

Q6. Which Hawaiian mammals are endangered?

Q7. How many endangered mammals are from New Zealand?

* Microsoft Works, AppleWorks or Filemaker Pro are suitable databases for this task.

Related pages: Endangered Species, Databases

Categories: Science, ICT

Author: Mr Kershaw