Descubre cómo viven algunos animales, qué peligros tienen y cómo se comparan, todo en inglés.

1. Where does the Iberian lynx live?

   The Iberian lynx

   The Iberian lynx is a wild cat that lives only in Spain and Portugal. Its habitat is the Mediterranean forest and scrubland, where there are lots of rabbits. Rabbits are its main food: an adult lynx eats about one rabbit every day.

   In 2002, there were fewer than 100 Iberian lynxes in the wild. People destroyed a lot of their habitat, many rabbits died of diseases and lots of lynxes were killed by cars on the roads.

   Then scientists started to breed lynxes in special centres and release them into protected areas. Engineers built tunnels under some roads, so the lynxes can cross safely. Today there are more than 2,000 lynxes. The Iberian lynx is not endangered now, but it is still vulnerable and needs our help.

   Rodea la respuesta correcta.

   • All over Europe.
   • Only in Spain and Portugal.
   • In the African savannah.

2. Why does the lynx need places with lots of rabbits?

   • Because rabbits dig its tunnels.
   • Because rabbits protect it from cars.
   • Because rabbits are its main food.

3. Why did the number of lynxes go down?

   • Lynxes ate too many rabbits.
   • The winters in Spain were too cold.
   • People destroyed its habitat and there were fewer rabbits.

4. Which sentence is true about the lynx today?

   • The Iberian lynx is extinct.
   • There are more lynxes than in 2002, but they still need protection.
   • There are fewer than 100 lynxes in the wild.

5. The cheetah is ___ land animal in the world.

   • the most fast
   • the fastest
   • faster

6. Bats sleep during the day and fly at night to catch insects. They are ___ animals.

   • aquatic
   • endangered
   • nocturnal

7. A stick insect looks just like a twig, so birds cannot find it. This is called ___.

   • hibernation
   • migration
   • camouflage

8. Complete with the correct form of the word in brackets

   In winter, a brown bear in its den. (hibernate)

   Elephants are than hippos. (heavy)

   The blue whale is the animal on Earth. (big)

   The giraffe is the animal in the world. (tall)

9. Hibernate or migrate? Sort the animals

   Escribe cada palabra en su grupo.

   dormousebrown bearhedgehogswallowmonarch butterflyhumpback whale
   They hibernate

   They migrate

10. Match each word with its meaning

    Une con una línea cada elemento con su pareja.

    • prey
    • predator
    • habitat
    • extinct
    • endangered

    • an animal that other animals hunt and eat
    • there are no more of them anywhere in the world
    • the natural home of an animal or a plant
    • an animal that hunts and eats other animals
    • at risk of disappearing for ever

11. Put the words in order to make a sentence

    Escribe en cada casilla el número de orden.

    • eat
    • Sea turtles
    • they look like
    • because
    • plastic bags
    • jellyfish.