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Vocabulary Practice: Elephants
1.Elephants are amazing creatures and are mainly found
on the of Asia and Africa.

countries
cities
villages
continents
2.African elephants are the largest living animal.

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sea
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tundra
3.Elephants have large , that look like long noses,
but they use these to pick up food and other material as
well as drink water.

trunks
tanks
snouts
tails
4.Both male and female African elephants also have large
teeth, called , that stick out on either side of their
mouths and are made of ivory.

knives
stems
tusks
spears

5.Both African and Asian elephants have large .
They can hear very well because of these but they also
use them to cool themselves off in the hot, summer
months by flapping them against their bodies like a large
fan.

ears
tusks
turbines
trunks
6.Both Asian and African elephants mainly eat fruit, grass,
stems and leaves. Because they only eat plants, they are
called . They have to eat about 400 to 500 pounds of
food per day to survive.

herbivores
omnivores
carnivores
plants
7.Elephants are great swimmers and have few natural
. This means that there are not many wild animals
that hunt and/or kill elephants because they are so large,
strong and intimidating.

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prey
victims
targets
8.Humans beings are the elephant's worst natural
predator. Many people have trapped and killed wild

elephants in order to take and, illegally, sell their ivory
tusks on the black market. These people are criminals and
are known as .

prey
fatalities
injuries
poachers
9.Many people also illegally trap and use elephants for
purposes because elephants are so strong and they
can do a lot of hard work for people.

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vision
10.There are not many elephants left in the but
many committed people are working to keep more
elephants in their natural habitats.

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store
wild
circus