Quiz
Writing Competition
1. What helps keep the Japanese Macaque monkey warm in winter?
Sitting in hot springs
Eating hot food
Going into hibernation
2. Who was the first to propose a theory of evolution??
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
Charles Darwin
Alfred Wallace
3. What is yeast?
Plant
Bacterium
Fungus
4. How does a bee queen communicate with her colony??
Body movements
Pheronomes
Sounds
5. What insects spread the disease sleeping sickness?
Mosquitoes
Bug assassins
Tsetse fly
6. Which of these birds can fly in any direction, including backwards?
Eagle
Hummingbird
Goldfinch
7. What type of climate does the Everglades (USA) have?
Polar
Temperate
Subtropical
8. Which of these birds catches insects in flight?
Heron
Swallow
P arrot
9. How fast can a grizzly bear run?
16 mph
30 mph
48 mph
10. How heavy is a newborn kangaroo compared to its mother?
About 1/300 as heav
About 1/3,000 as heavy
About 1/30,000 as heavy