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Additional cross-curricular teaching activities, interactive quizzes, and more are available online. Go [to www.ArbordalePublishing.com](to www.ArbordalePublishing.com) and click on the book’s cover to\u003Cbr>find all the links. |\n| --- |\n| Endangered Animal Vocabulary |\n\nFood Chains & Webs  \nOur earth is filled with millions of different animals. All animals need energy to live and grow. They get this energy from the food they eat. Animals depend on one another, and are connected to each other, by food chains. A food web is made of many food chains which have some of the same animals or plants.  \nFood chains begin with plants. Plants are known as producers because they make their own food using energy from the sun in a process called photosynthesis.  \nAnimals that eat plants are called herbivores. When animals munch on tasty plants, they get some of the sun’s energy which is stored inside plants.  \nPeople are at the  \ntop of many food chains. Can you think of other animals that are at the top of  \ntheir food chains?  \nCarnivores are  \nanimals that eat meat or other animals. Carnivores also get energy from the sun because they eat animals that have eaten plants.  \nAnimals that eat both plants and animals are called omnivores. Living things that eat other living things are called consumers. Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores are all consumers.  \nMissing Links in Food Chains  \nAnimals and plants in a habitat are connected to each other in food chains and webs. If the population of one animal decreases, or if an endangered animal becomes extinct, this loss affects many other animals in its food  \nchains and webs.  \nwith otters  \nSea  \notters are an important part of their ocean habitat.  \nSea urchins use their sharp teeth to eat kelp, other algae, and dead sea animals on the bottom of the ocean.  \nKelp is the bottom of the sea otter’s food chain. Kelp makes its own energy from sunlight. Many animals eat kelp and use the kelp forest as a place to hide from predators.  \nIf  \nsea otters disappear, the urchins would grow out of control.  \nwithout otters (called “urchin barren”)  \nToo many urchins would devour the kelp forest, leaving no food for other plant-eaters such as small fish and crabs.  \nAnd, with no safe place to hide, young fish are easy prey and begin to disappear too. Without sea otters, a busy ocean habitat will soon have few animals and plants left.  \nEndangered Animals  \nUse the information found in the book to answer the questions below. Answers are upside down at the bottom of this page.  \nAmerican crocodile  \nCrocodylus acutus  \nSouthern sea otter  \nEnhydra lutris nereis  \nWest Indian manatees  \nTrichechus manatus  \n1. Which animals are mammals, reptiles, fish, birds, insects, or amphibians?  \n2. Which animals are currently federally listed as endangered, threatened, or recovered?  \n3. Which animals are marine mammals (mammals that live in the ocean)?  \n1. Mammals: sea otter, West Indian manatee, Bowhead whale, gray bat, red wolf, Utah prairie dogs; Reptile: American crocodile; Fish: Atlantic salmon; Birds: whooping cranes, bald eagles; Insect: Karner blue butterfy;  \nAmphibian: Mississippi gopher frog  \n2. Endangered: Karner blue butterfly, whooping crane, American crocodile, Atlantic salmon, Bowhead whale, West Indian manatee, gray bat, red wolf  \nThreatened: Utah prairie dog, sea otter  \nRecovered: bald eagle  \n3. sea otter, Bowhead whale, West Indian manatee  \nJust as animals in a family are related to each other, numbers in a fact family are related too. 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