Name: Anastasia Chiarini Our Planet: From Deserts to Grasslands Class p.

Video Questions
1. How much of the land on our planet is covered by desert?
A fifth of the land is desert.
2. How many Socotra cormorants emerge from a dust storm in the Arabian desert?
Fifty thousand of them.
3. An adult will only give food to whom?
To its own chick.
4. How does the desert enrich the sea?
It keeps the ocean supplied with valuable dust.
5. What is the size of the Arabian Leopard’s territory?
350 square feet is the size of its territory.
6. What is the female leopard tracking?
A male leopard.
7. What is the name of the largest sand sea in the world?
Rub al Kali.
8. How many desert elephants survive in the Namibia desert?
Less than 150 survive in Namibia.
9. How is the elephant calf protected from the desert lion?
The calf is protected by its mother.
10. How tall is the bull?
4 meters tall.
11. What can turn a desert green?
A once in a decade thunderstorm.
12. What does the vast herd attract?
They attract predators.
13. What animal do the cheetahs start to stalk?
They start to stalk the wildebeest.
14. What allows these dramas to continue?
Government protection allows them to continue.
15. How many bison roamed the Great Plains 80 years ago?
Millions of bison grazed North america.
16. What has happened to 90% of the prairie?
Humans slaughtered the great herds and agriculture destroyed it.
17. What do the caterpillars do that is seemingly suicidal?
They abseil down to the ground on a string of silk with no defense.
18. Why do the ants start feeding the caterpillar?
They believe they are their own larvae and royalty.
19. How long was the Alcon blue butterfly in their nest?
Two years in the ant nest.
20. Where do the eagles make their nests?
On the ground.
21. What animal, that was extinct in the wild, has been carefully bred back into existence?
Shyvelaskis horses,from Mongolia.

22. The tall grasses in Mongolian provide the last hiding place for what highly endangered
animal?
The highly endangered one horned rhino.
23. How close must the tigress get to her prey?
She must get within twenty meters of it .
24. What has happened to the number of wild tigers in the last 100 years?
They have declined due to poaching. They have increased in recent years however.