Miscellaneous
A spider has how many legs?
8
Is a bat a.... (a) Bird (b) Reptile (c) Mammal or (d) Insect?
Mammal
TRUE or FALSE... the Moon makes its own light?
ANSWER: False, when we see the Moon “shining” in the night sky it is just reflecting the Sun‛s rays.
A frog sheds its skin once every.... (a) Day (b) Week (c) Month or (d) Year?
ANSWER: most frog shed their skin once every Week particularly when they are you.
Frogs will usually eat the skin that they have shed! Some species of frog can sped their
skin daily
TRUE or FALSE... The smallest mammal in the world is a bat?
ANSWER: True (depending on who you ask!); The “Bumble Bee” bat, as the name suggests,
is not much larger than a bumble bee and weighs around two grams. This is considered the
smallest mammal by skull size. However, the smallest mammal by mass is a pygmy shrew,
weighing approximately 1.3 grams.
TRUE or FALSE... spiders are insects?
ANSWER: False... spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs and three body segments:
the head, the thorax and the abdomen. Spiders have eight legs and only two body segments:
the cephalothorax and the abdomen. Spiders belong to a group of animals called “arachnids”.
TRUE or FALSE... The male Darwin Frog minds the hatched tadpoles until they are fully
formed froglets?
ANSWER: True... what is even more interesting is how they do it... once the female Darwin
Frog has hatched the eggs (about 30 of them) the male swallows them! He keep them in a
pouch in his throat called the vocal pouch. The eggs are safe to develop into fully formed
froglets at which stage they are spat out by Dad!
TRUE or FALSE... Bats make up more than a quarter of all mammal species?
ANSWER: True... there are more than 1,100 species of bats in the world. There is about
4,000 species of mammals in total!
TRUE or FALSE... One gram of the toxin produced by the Golden Poison Dart Frog is enough
to kill more than ten grown men?
ANSWER: True... although these frogs are very small (about five centimetres long) they
produce a deadly toxin. Poison Dart Frogs are so named because some indigenous tribes of
South America used to extract their venom and apply it to the tips of their darts. These
tiny creatures are some of the most toxic animals on Earth.
A spiders web is made of...
(a) protein (b) sugar (c) starch or (d) fat?
ANSWER: A spiders web is made of silk proteins; Spiders use their silk not just to
spin webs and catch prey but they may also use it to subdue and parcel their prey, to
protect their eggs and to move themselves around.
A bat can live for.... (a) two years (b) five years (c) ten years or (d) 20+ years?
ANSWER: Bats can live for 20-30 years which is quite a long lifespan compared to many
other mammals.
TRUE or FALSE... the Moon is about a quarter of the size of the Earth?
ANSWER: True... the Moon has a diameter of about 2,000 miles; most moons are very
small compared with the planets that they orbit, Jupiter, for example has many moons, some
of which are less than one mile wide!
We are all used to carvig punpkins at Halloween, but this tradition was started with another
vegetable, was it....
(a) a carrot (b) a turnip or (c) a parsnip?
ANSWER: The idea of carving pumpkins comes from the Celtic tradition of carving out a
turnip and using it to carry home a hot ember from the bonfire. This tradition is linked to
the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.
TRUE or FALSE... The largest bat in the world has a wingspan of close to two meters?
ANSWER: True, the “Flying Fox” bat has a wingspan of up to 1.8 meters (five to six feet).
TRUE or FALSE... We can never see the back of the Moon from Earth?
ANSWER: True... as the Moon orbits the Earth it is also rotating on its own axis;
Therefore the Moon always keeps the same side pointing towards Earth.