Great

Elephant
Census

Individual assignment

Name:
_______________________________________________________________

Instructions

All of this work must be developed in your notebook. ONLY Final answers
should be written here.

1- Read the “African Elephant Numbers Plummet 30 Percent, Landmark Survey

Finds” article.
2- Extract information from the article to fulfill the following tables.
3- Present all of your calculations.
4- Write down any question you may have. Then, ask your teacher.
Quantity of living elephants:

Quantity of elephants lost by ivory poaching and habitat

destruction:

Ratio of elephants living to elephants killed:

● A species' range is the

geographical area where it
can actually live.

● The elephant is found in

93% of its range.

● Color 93% of the elephant

to represent its population
in this area.

18 African countries were covered by the aerial Fraction:

survey, but only 15 countries had previous
information on elephants.
● What fraction of the surveyed countries had
previous information on elephants?
● Is it useful to simplify?
Create a proportion to solve:

If 144,000 elephants were killed in a decade in 15 ________= ________

countries, how many elephants can we predict were
killed in 18 countries at the same rate?

If 27 000 elephants are killed each year, how many

elephants would be killed after 13 years? ________= ________

According to the answer you got above, how

many elephants will be left living after 13 years?
(use the total number of elephants from the
beginning to solve)
The census involved flights for a
distance of 285,000 miles—the
equivalent distance to the moon and
a quarter of the way back.

1 mile = 1,609 kilometers

What is that distance in kilometers?

Convert the distance from miles to
km.

How far is the moon from Earth

(miles and kilometers)?
 Analyzing data

Please, Analyze the section that shows the elephant population per country.
Which country has the most elephants?
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Express the ratio of living elephants in 1995 to living elephants in 2015, for the
following countries: (estimate more or less using the graph)

Chad Zambia Tanzania South Africa Uganda

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⇳ Most Positive Change

1.
Order the countries
above from 1 to 5
2.
starting with the
country with the
most positive 3.
change in elephants
(number 1) to the 4.
country with the
most negative
5.
change in elephants
(number 5). Most Negative Change