CURIOUSITY QUIZ: ANIMALS: OUR FRIENDS

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Test Your knowledge on 'Animals: Our Friends' prepared exclusively according to the DAV School curriculum of 'My Living World' and the NCERT curriculum of 'Looking Around' for Class-5 . Attempt all the questions by clicking on the right option. Submit the completed Form by clicking the 'Submit' button at the end of the Form. Get your Score and the correct Answer by clicking the 'View score' button. Good Luck! (Although the quiz is primarily meant for Class-5, students from Class-6 to Class-10 can, however, participate and enjoy the fun of the quiz.)

Before attempting the quiz, you may read an overview of the topic given below which will make you feel easier to answer the questions.

Overview:

Animals do a great service to us by providing many things of our daily use like silk, wool,leather, pearls, food and also services like transport. Dogs and parrots have been used by police for tracing criminals and delivering letters respectively. Interesting features regarding various animals have been amply discussed in the quiz. Please go through the quiz to learn that although Cheetah is the fastest land animal, it is the horse known for its consistency in speed and, hence, has the greatest endurance as the runner and that's where the quality of endurance as the runner. However, due to man's greed for hunting and poaching, many animals like Dodo, Passenger pigeon, Caribbean Monk Seal , Tasmanian tiger, Quagga, Golden toad etc have become extinct. Many other animals like the African elephant, Giant Panda, Bactrian camel, Bald eagle, Golden lion tamarin are the species of becoming extinct in near future and are in the Endangered list. While elephants are hunted for their tusks, the rhinos are killed for their unique horns and so on. The Wildlife Protection Act 1972 bans illegal trade of wildlife in India.

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I am an Indian animal world famous for my single unique horn which people think to have magical properties and that's the reason why I'm mostly hunted for :

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Musk deer

Sambar

One horned Rhinoceros

Barasingha

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Which animal has the greatest endurance as the runner?

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Cheetah

Horse

Leopard

Lion

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Which animal living in the Indian forest lives a solitary life?

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Leopard

Wolf

Tiger

Lion

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How many categories elephants are generally classified and what are they?

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2 ( Indian elephant and African elephant)

2 ( White elephant and Black elephant)

2 (Bush elephant and Plains elephant)

2 (African elephant and European elephant)

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Which animal's footprint does resemble that of humans?

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Pangolin

Lion

Tiger

Bear

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Which animal often does coil its body into a hard ball to escape from the predators?

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Anteater

Pangolin

Percupine

Armadilo

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Which animal is often called the Camel-leopard?

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African Leopard

Zebra

Bactrian Camel

Giraffe

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I have a lion-like, long, thin and tufted tail and one of the most endangered of my own species around the globe. I am endemic and native exclusively to the rainforedt habitat of the Western Ghats (India). As a result of my shy and solitary nature, I hardly tend to venture from my usual range and travelling only within its rainforest habitat. Can you identify me?

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Spider monkey

Rhesus macaque

Golden Lanuir

Lion tailed macaque

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I am a reptile having a forked tongue and often hiss like a snake when frightened. I often stand on my hind legs to look around things that gives me my own name. Can you identify me?

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Reticulated Python

Pangolin

Monitor lizard

Salmander

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The Wild boar of the Indian forest is known for its spectacular long and rubbery snout. How does the organ help the animal for survival?

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It helps the animal to regulate its body temperature.

It helps the animal to defend its territory

It helps the animal to fight against its enemies.

It helps the animal to dig underground roots and bulbs that it eats.

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This flightless bird living in the island of Mauritius that became extinct due to its killing for feather and flesh by the European settlers is known as :

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Arctic tern

Passenger pigeon

Bald eagle

Dodo

Other:

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A bird endemic to North America is known for its migratory habits. It became extinct as it was killed by people assuming it as enmies to crops. Can you name it?

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Passenger Pigeon

Bald eagle

Arctic tern

Caribbean Sea hawk

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An extinct carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Gunea that became extinct for hunting, habitat destruction and introduced diseases by settlers:

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Australian wolf

Snow leopard

Guinea fox

Tasmanian tiger

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An extinct amphibian species that once lived the high altitude regions of Costa Rica, but became extinct due to fungal infections to its sensitive skin because of temperature alterations due to climate changes:

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Golden frog

Golden Toad

Poison frog

Red toad

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A mammal living in the Caribbean sea got extinct because of overhunting for its oil and overfishing of its foodbase:

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California sea lion

Walrus

Caribbean Monk Seal

American otter

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Who is at the top of a grsssland food chain consisting of shrubs, insects, amphibians , reptiles and predatory birds?

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Frog

Snake

Hawk

Grasshopper

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A subspecies of the plains zebra that was endemic to South Africa until it was hunted to extinction in the late 19th century by European settler-colonists:

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African zebra

Okapi

Tepir

Quagga

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A natural interconnections of various food chains of an ecosystem is called:

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Food pyramid

Web pyramid

Complex food chain

Food Web

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The Bactrian camel is an endangerd species known for its two humps on its back unlike the Dromedary camels. It lives mainly in:

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Thar deserts of India

Sahara desert

Australian deserts

Steppes of Central Asia

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An endangered animal, native to China, is the emblem of Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF):

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Black panda

Striped panda

Giant Panda

Grey Panda

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An endangered ses bird of prey, native to North America, is the tnational emblem of USA:

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Bald eagle

Caribbean sea hawk

Arctic tern

Sea Falcon

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This is a small monkey living in the rain forests of Brazil has a long tail, reddish-gold fur, and a dramatic mane that frames its face. Due to a shrinking habitat, its population has dwindled dangerously near extinction. Can you name it?

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Lion tailed macaque

Golden languir

Golden lion tamarin

Rhesus monkey

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Elephants are generally hunted for their:

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Fats

Skin

Meat

Tusks

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Tigers are generally hunted for their:

1 point

Meat

Skin only

Teeth and Claw only

Skin, teeth and Claw

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Frogs are killed for their:

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Meat

Skin

Teeth

Gall bladder

Clear selection

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