Question – Answer Quiz

Read the following passage carefully and then choose the best option to fit each space.When the word endangered is mentioned, people usually think of particular species, like the panda or whooping crane . However, we would like to encourage you to think about ___(1)___ in a broader context. It is habitats, the physical places ___(2)___ species live and interact with one another. Although the development of special breeding programs, also known as captive conservation, may help some species in some cases, it is clearly not ___(3)___ answer to the global problem. Indeed, ___(4)___ we are able to protect natural areas where endangered species actually live, they have no future. Species become endangered for a wide ___(5)___ of reasons. By analyzing and grouping many individual cases, however, we find the same broad causes appearing again and again. They are Habitat Destruction, Exotic Species, and Overexploitation. Among other factors threatening particular species are limited: distribution, disease, and pollution.