Vocabulary Practice: Elephants

Elephants are amazing creatures and are mainly found on the ......... of Asia and Africa.
countries
cities
villages
continents

African elephants are the largest living ......... animal.
marine
sea
land
tundra

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

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

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

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

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.
enemies
prey
victims
targets

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

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.
display
pictures
labor
vision

There are not many elephants left in the ......... but many committed people are working to keep more elephants in their natural habitats.
zoo
store
wild
circus