1. Zoo Vocabulary by

2. zoo A park or institution in which living animals are kept and usually exhibited to the public.

3. habitat The place where a person or thing is most likely to be found.

4. endangered species A species present in such small numbers that it is at risk of extinction.

5. zookeeper One who takes care of animals in a zoo.

6. reptiles Any of various cold- blooded, usually egg- laying vertebrates of the class Reptilia, such as a snake, lizard, crocodile, turtle, or dinosaur, having an external covering of scales or horny plates and breathing by means of lungs.

7. mammals Any of various warm- blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young.

8. herbivore An animal that feeds chiefly on plants.

9. carnivore A flesh-eating animal.

10. omnivore An omnivorous person or animal. One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

11. species A fundamental category of taxonomic classification, ranking below a genus or subgenus and consisting of related organisms capable of interbreeding.