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title: Endangered animals and extinction — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Biology
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 77 «Endangered animals and extinction» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Endangered animals and extinction

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The 15 questions of lesson 77 «Endangered animals and extinction» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with their options, 76 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/t1/) — In a cartoon, the dodo is a fat, silly bird that waddles off a cliff. What is right? — right ✓ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/t2/) — «there were billions of them, no way a bird like that dies out» What does the passenger pigeon show? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/t3/) — «my uncle saw a Tasmanian tiger last year, swear down» What is right? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/t4/) — «rhino horn cures fevers, my mate's gran says» What is right? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/t5/) — What would happen if a vaquita and a tiger both lost the same number of animals? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/t6/) — Why does a long childhood make orangutans slow to recover? — right ✓ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/t7/) — «it's only one plastic bag, the sea's massive, who cares» What is right? — right ✓ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/t8/) — «no bees, so what, I don't even like honey» Why would losing bees matter? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/t9/) — «penguins live up north too, the great auk was one» What is right? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/t10/) — Which Red List category would a very common bird like a pigeon be in? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/t11/) — Why are animals on islands often in more danger than those on big continents? — right ✓ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/e1/) — Identify the principal cause of the extinction of the dodo upon the island of Mauritius. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/e2/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the composition of rhinoceros horn. — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the IUCN Red List? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/e4/) — State the year in which the last known passenger pigeon, named Martha, died at Cincinnati Zoo. — right ✓ · exam

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