Birds
What substance makes up the outer shell of a bird egg?
A. iron B. calcium carbonate C. keratin D. enzyme
B. calcium carbonate
What is the upper half of a turtle's shell called?
A. plastron B. scute C. dewlap D. carapace
D. carapace
What is the largest known fish?
A. great white shark B. coelacanth C. tuna D. whale shark
D. whale shark
What is the hindmost section of an insect?
A. head B. tail C. abdomen D. thorax
C. abdomen
What is the longest living animal?
A. tuatara B. Komodo dragon C. caiman D. tortoise
D. tortoise
What group consists of carnivorous hunting birds?
A. perching B. game C. birds of prey D. water birds
C. birds of prey
The only two known venomous lizards are the Mexican beaded lizard and the what?
A. iguana B. axolotl C. Gila monster D. bearded lizard
C. Gila monster
What group of cartilaginous fish includes skates and sawfish?
A. rays B. chimeras C. sharks D. lampreys
A. rays
What is the largest lepidopteran?
A. tiger swallowtail butterfly B. monarch butterfly
C. Hercules moth D. white witch moth
C. Hercules moth
What is the type of dormancy that sirens use to survive dry conditions?
A. metamorphosis B. estivation C. molting D. preening
B. estivation
What is the fastest flying bird?
A. peregrine falcon B. brown pelican C. kakapo D. common merganser
A. peregrine falcon
A lizard like reptile with a parietal eye is the what?
A. Komodo dragon B. sirens C. anurans D. tuatara
D. tuatara
What are the tooth-like scales found on sharks?
A. denticles B. ctenoid scales C. ganoid scales D. cycloid scales
A. denticles
Which of the following insects is considered to have the most organized colonies and be the most social?
A. wasps B. butterflies C. bees D. ants
D. ants
What is the changing of an immature hatchling to an adult?
A. metamorphosis B. estivation C. molting D. preening
A. metamorphosis
What term refers to a chick that hatches with insulating feathers and can run or swim soon after birth?
A. primary B. precocial C. altricial D. prodigious
B. precocial
Snake venom that attacks the circulatory system is called what venom?
A. genotoxic B. hemotoxic C. neurotoxic D. heterotoxic
B. hemotoxic
What are paired holes used for inhalation by sharks and rays called?
A. blow holes B. spiracles C. denticles D. nostrils
B. spiracles
Because insects grow and become too big for their skeleton, they must go through the process of what?
A. molting B. estivation C. metamorphosis D. growing
A. molting
What do we call any animal with four limbs?
A. a biped B. a tetrapod C. a therapod D. a quadruped
B. tetrapod
What fluid feeds an unhatched chick?
A. chalaza B. germinal spot C. albumen D. yolk
D. yolk
Lizards are able to change colors because of color-containing cells beneath their skin called what?
A. spiracles B. chromatophores C. ovipositor D. plasma
B. chromatophores
Sperm-containing fluid released by a male fish is called what?
A. amnion B. estivation C. plumage D. milt
D. milt
A. down B. keratin C. ovipositor D. amnion
C. ovipositor
What is built-in knowledge that an animal is born with called?
A. instinct B. mutualism C. operculum D. evolution
A. instinct