Name That Beast
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Non-Chordates
Threatened Species
Famous Animals
100
Which shark's distinct head-shape gives it great depth perception?
Hammerhead
100
Snakes are found in every continent except Antarctica (and many islands). Which island are they not found on?
Greenland
100
What species of these pollen-consuming insects live socially in colonies?
Bees
100
All elephant species are either endangered or critically endangered, in large part due to poaching for what material?
Ivory
100
Which species is the fish Nemo in the 2003 animation "Finding Nemo"?
Clownfish
200
What 'springy' animal is the size of a lima bean when born?
Kangaroo
200
Only one species of what bird is found in the northern hemisphere?
Penguins
200
Jellyfish lack what biological system; they don't need it since enough oxygen diffuses through their epidermis?
Respiratory system
200
The black toad, due to its small range, has been given what conservation status?
A) Near Threatened
b) Vulnerable
c) Extinct
B) Vulnerable
200
On 3 November 1957, Laika became the first animal sent into space by the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2. What animal was she?
A dog
300
Out of all octopus species, which ones, named for the characteristic pattern on their skin, are some of the most venomous marine animals in the world?
Blue-ringed octopuses.
300
Despite its name suggesting a range limited to a single river, what large reptile is found in most of Africa outside of the Sahara, including parts of Madagascar?
Saltwater crocodile
300
Some species of ants and aphids have what sort of relationship that benefits both species, often combined with symbiosis?
Mutualism
300
What largest monitor lizard is endangered, and climate change is expected to lead to a substantial decline in suitable habitat?
Komodo dragon
300
What was the name of the first animal to be cloned from an adult cell?
Dolly the Sheep
400
Which insects are some of the most efficient hunters in the animal kingdom?
Dragonflies
400
Mudskippers live in what zone which is above water at low tide and submerged at high tide?
Intertidal zone.
400
Under various forms of environmental stress, corals undergo what process, in which they expel the single-celled organisms that live inside them, which are responsible for most of their coloration?
Bleaching
400
David's Tiger, despite its name is a species of what type of large-winged insect?
Butterfly
400
What animal is Hedwig, the pet of Harry Potter in the series Harry Potter?
An owl
500
What marsupial produces cubic feces? Which may help keep them in place to mark territory.
Wombats
500
When an animal or other lifeform is native to one location and found nowhere else, it is said to be what to the location?
A) Constrained
B) Foreign
C) Endemic
Endemic
500
What animal is in the ocean and is stationary?
Hint: a cartoon is made after this creature.
Sponges.
500
What species of porpoise found in the Gulf of California is on the brink of extinction; there may be as few as 10 individuals left?
The vaquita.
500
Between 1997 and 2017, a cat named Stubbs was the honorary mayor of a small village in which U.S state?
A) Alaska
B) Oklahoma
C) Texas
Talkeetna, Alaska
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