Animals in the Mountain West Region
Activity 7




1.    What state in the Mountain West region has more animals than people?
 

2.    What is an ecosystem?
 

3.    Animals in Montana range in size from what to what?
 

4.    Name 5 large mammals that live in Montana:
 

5.    What large bird lives in Montana?
 

6.    What percent of Idaho's wild creatures are classified as "nongame" wildlife?
 

7.    What are nongame animals?
 

8.    What Idaho animals hide deep in evergreen woods?
 

9.    What are some of Idaho's water and wet area animals?
 

10.  Wyoming has the largest population of what animal?
 

11.  Wyoming is also home to the world's largest herd of what?
 

12.    What large mammal is found in the northwestern part of the Wyoming?
 

13.  Why do scientists from all over the world travel to Wyoming?
 

14.  How many different types of dinosaurs have been found in Wyoming?
 

15.  Name 5 dinosaurs that have been found in Wyoming:
 

16.    What two types of bears can be found in Glacier National Park?
 

17.  Which is bigger?
 

18.  Which is blond to nearly black?
 

19.  What do they eat?
 

20.  While hiking in the park, should you surprise bears?
 

21.  Do farmers in Utah like grasshoppers? Why?
 

22.  What is the only venoumous reptile in the Great Basin desert?
 

23.  How big is it? What color?
 

24.  What mammals are in Great Basin National Park?
 

25.  What birds are in Great Basin National Park?