Questions
1) What is the Humpback Whale famous for ?2) Do whales and dolphins have ears ?
3) Which penguin is the world's largest marine bird ?
4) Which two penguins are found only in the Antarctic ?
5) Which region is home to the polar bear - the Arctic or the Antarctic ?
6) How many polar bears now exist in the wild ?
7) Why do hippos need to wallow in rivers on sunny days ?
8) When do hippos feed ?
9) Which animal is the world's tallest ?
10) How many bones make up the neck of a giraffe ?
11) Which has the most bones in its neck, a sparrow or a giraffe ?
12) Which two Indonesian islands are home to the orang-utan ?
13) Which dolphin is one of the most fearsome predators in the ocean ?
14) How fast can a Californian Sea Lion swim ?
15) What is unusual about a narwhal ?
16) What is a Giant Panda's favourite food ?
17) What is a group of rhinoceroses called ?
18) The "Man of the Woods" is the name of which great red ape ?
19) There were 100,000 wild black rhinos in 1960; how many are left now ?
20) Do tigers live in prides like lions ?
21) The Cheetah can run at speeds of more than 160 km/h (100 mph) True or False ?
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Answers to The Natural World Quiz
1) Its beautiful song2) Yes, they have two tiny openings on the side of their head
3) Emperor Penguin reaching 1.2 metres tall
4) Adielie and Emperor penguins
5) Arctic
6) Up to 28,000
7) To avoid getting sunburnt
8) At night
9) Giraffe, reaching a height of nearly 6.1 metres
10) 7, the same as in most other mammals
11) A sparrow has 14, a giraffe has 7
12) Borneo and Sumatra
13) Killer Whales
14) 40 km per hour
15) It has one very long spiralled tusk
16) Bamboo - it eats up to 45 kg a day
17) A Crash
18) Orang-utan
19) 2,500
20) No, they are solitary animals
21) False
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