Friday, December 30, 2011

GeoJeopardy! Fridays #78

Time for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because it's the end of the year so lets deal with some extinctions.


- Where the Wild Things Were -


In prehistoric times 10 foot tall "terror birds" ranged over much of this continent, including Patagonia
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  The shamainu or Honshu type of this canine, died out early in the 20th century


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 Though specimens still exist in zoos, the Barbary lion, native to the north of this continent, is extinct in the wild

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  The Xerces Blue of this insect, native to sand dunes in San Francisco's Sunset District, became extinct in the 1940s


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The bulldog rat disappeared around 1900 from this Aussie-owned island named for a holiday


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