Endangered+Species

Back: Investing Congratulations! Thanks to Mr. Noble's inspiring teaching back in high school biology class and your hard work, you've just been hired as a conservation biologist. Your first task is to study the decline in population of an endangered species, the Indiana Bat. Photo courtesy of BioKIDS 1. Read up about the Indiana Bat which is actually found throughout the United States.

2. Use your worksheet to record the estimated population of this endangered species back during the last census of hibernating bats.

3. Use the exponential decay function to determine the estimated population of the bat right now and in 2050.

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