Plants and Trees 1. Of all the plants on Earth, which plant serves the most uses? a) sunflower b) wheat c) rice d) corn e) trees 2. If you were stranded on an island without food, medicines, shelter, water, bowls, or brooms, which plant would give you the best chance of survival? a) apple tree b) maple tree c) coconut palm d) walnut tree 3. Which products below come from trees? a) rubber tires b) wax c) cinnamon d) chocolate e) lemons f) pencils g) candles h) coffee i) olives j) canoes Answers: 3. all of them 2. c 3. e Animal Record Breakers 1. What is the largest animal in the world? 2. What is the smallest animals in the world? 3. What is the tallest animal in the world? 4. What is the fastest running land animal in the world? 5. What is the only mammal that can fly? 6. What is the heaviest land animal in the world? 7. What is the sleepiest animal in the world? 8. What is the slowest moving land mammal in the world? 9. What is the largest rodent in the world? Answers: 1. Blue Whale (30m) 2. Kitti's Hognosed Bat (2.5cm) 3. Giraffe (6m) 4. Cheetah (65 km/h) 5. Bat 6. Elephant 7. Koala (22 hours a day) 8. Sloth 9. Capybara (34cm long, 68kg) Fish 1. What is the largest fish in the world? 2. What is the fastest fish in the world? 3. What is the smallest fish in the world? Answers: 1. Whale Shark (18m) 2. Sailfish (109 km/h) 3. Dwarf Pygmy Goby (1.3cm) Birds 1. What is the smallest bird in the world? 2. What is the largest bird in the world? 3. What is the only bird in the world without wings? 4. What is the fastest swimming bird in the world? 5. What is the fastest flying bird in the world? 6. Which bird has the largest wing span? 7. Which bird builds the largest nest? Answers: 1. Bee Hummingbird (6.3cm) 2. Ostrich (1.8kg) 3. Kiwi Bird 4. Loon 5. Peregrine Falcon (282km/hr) 6. Marabou Stork (4m) 7. Bald Eagle (2.4m diameter) Reptiles 1. What is the deadliest snake in the world? 2. Which snake has the longest fangs? 3. What is the fastest swimming snake? 4. What is the largest and heaviest reptile? 5. What is the largest lizard? 6. What is the longest living reptile? 7. Which snake can survive three years without food? 8. What is the smallest reptile in the world? 9. What is the longest reptile ever kept in captivity? 10. What is the largest turtle in the world? 11. What is the fastest land reptile? 12. What is the slowest breathing animal? Answers: 1. African Black Mamba 2. Gaboon Viper (5.1cm long) 3. Yellow-bellied Sea Snake (1m/s) 4. Saltwater Crocodile (9.2m) 5. Komodo Dragon (3m, 135kg) 6. Galapagos Tortoise (150 years) 7. Okinawa Habu Snake (3 years) 8. Gecko (20mm) 9. Reticulated Python (9m) 10. Giant Tortoise (318kg, 1.5m long shell) 11. Six-lined Racerunner (29 km/h) 12. Tuatara (Breathes once an hour) Amphibians 1. What is the smallest amphibian? 2. What is the largest amphibian? 3. What is the deadliest frog in the world? 4. What is the largest land-living salamander in the world? Answers: 1. Brazilian Frog (10mm) 2. Chinese Giant Salamander (1.8m, 25kg) 3. Poison Dart Frog (The poison on its skin can kill 20 humans) 4. Tiger Salamander (40cm) Insects 1.What is the longest insect in the world? 2. What is the name of the biggest butterfly in the world? 3. What is the fastest flying insect in the world? 4. Which insect stays in the soil for 17 years to change from a pupa to an adult? Answers: 1. Australian Walking Stick (56cm) 2. Queen Alexandra Bird-Wing Butterfly 3. Hawk Moth (54km/h) 4. Periodic cicada Others 1. What is the largest seashell in the world? 2. What is the largest spider in the world? 3. What is the creature with the most legs in the world? Answers: 1. Giant Clam 2. Goliath Bird Eater (178g) 3. Illacme Plenipes (750 legs) |