How Many Dragons Are Left?: teacher key

Komodo Dragons, grade 8 edition, written for 8th grade. Count the Komodo dragons of Indonesia, see where they live and how their home is protected.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

As of 2021, about how many Komodo dragons lived on the six islands?
- 3,500 (answer)
- 350
- 35,000
Which two islands hold almost 70 percent of Komodo dragons?
- Flores and Padar
- Komodo and Rinca (answer)
- Gili Motang and Nusa Kode
When did Indonesia set up Komodo National Park?
- 1915
- 2021
- 1980 (answer)
What happened to numbers from 1981 to 2021?
- They fell from 5,000 to 3,500 (answer)
- They doubled
- They stayed the same
What is true of a Komodo dragon's home range?
- It is the smallest of any large predator in the world (answer)
- It is the largest of any predator
- It covers the whole ocean
What does vulnerable mean here?
- Very strong
- Very quiet
- At risk (answer)