Earth’s Cleaning Crew by Heather Price-Wright
Vocabulary: ecosystems, vertebrate, carcass, extinction, infected, disease, species
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Depth of Knowledge Level 1-2
1. Vultures are often seen as scary creatures.
2. Vultures feast on dead animals.
3. Only one vertebrate feast on dead animals.
4. Corinne Kendall is the name of the vulture researcher at the North Carolina Zoo.
5. Vultures play a role in controlling disease and waste removal.
6. Dead animals attract wild dogs.
7. Dead animals attract insects like flies.
8. Carcasses carry disease.
9. Vultures do not get infected or pass the disease along.
10. BirdLife International is saying that 7 of 11 vulture species in Africa are in danger of extinction.
11. The large predators being killed are lions, hyenas and other large predators.
12. The farmers cover a large cow with extremely powerful poisons. Then when the vultures eat the cow they die.
13. 10 to 100 vultures are killed with a poisoned carcass.
14. Poachers are also killing vultures.
15. Poachers kill vultures because rangers use vultures to find illegal hunted animals.
16. Evan Buechley, Ecologist at the University of Utah, says governments need to work together to stop poaching.
Depth of Knowledge Level 3-4
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Vocabulary: ecosystems, vertebrate, carcass, extinction, infected, disease, species
Go to Questions
Go to Directory of Articles & Books
Depth of Knowledge Level 1-2
1. Vultures are often seen as scary creatures.
2. Vultures feast on dead animals.
3. Only one vertebrate feast on dead animals.
- a. The vulture is the vertebrate.
4. Corinne Kendall is the name of the vulture researcher at the North Carolina Zoo.
5. Vultures play a role in controlling disease and waste removal.
6. Dead animals attract wild dogs.
7. Dead animals attract insects like flies.
8. Carcasses carry disease.
9. Vultures do not get infected or pass the disease along.
10. BirdLife International is saying that 7 of 11 vulture species in Africa are in danger of extinction.
11. The large predators being killed are lions, hyenas and other large predators.
12. The farmers cover a large cow with extremely powerful poisons. Then when the vultures eat the cow they die.
13. 10 to 100 vultures are killed with a poisoned carcass.
14. Poachers are also killing vultures.
15. Poachers kill vultures because rangers use vultures to find illegal hunted animals.
16. Evan Buechley, Ecologist at the University of Utah, says governments need to work together to stop poaching.
Depth of Knowledge Level 3-4
17. Answers will vary
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19. Answers will vary
20. Answers will vary
21. Answers will vary
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