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WILD WISDOM QUIZ

LEARN
TO LOVE
NATURE
WILDLIFE QUIZ
Test your knowledge in this fun quiz. Suitable
for children ages 11 +

BEFORE YOU BEGIN...

Biodiversity is crucial to health of our planet. Before
starting the quiz, watch the 2 minute film 'What is
Biodiversity?' You can also learn more about our
planet's major biomes by accessing our information
and activity sheets.

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Q1. What does the term biodiversity mean?

A The total variety of all life on earth

B Lots of wild habitats

C Di!erent types of species

D The variety of characteristics within a species

Q2. What covers one third of the land’s surface, and

helps to keep the climate stable by storing carbon?

A Forests

B Deserts

C Grasslands

D Rivers

Q3. Why are pollinators such as bees so essential to

life on earth?

A They provide oxygen

B They turn over the soil helping plants to grow

C They help reduce pest populations

D They help provide the food we eat

Q4. Some pitcher plants are found deep in jungles.

What is strange about these unusual plants?

A They are carnivorous

B They take three years to grow to full size

C They live for 100 years

D There are over 50 species of Bornean pitcher plant

Q5. There are di!erent types of forests including

boreal, deciduous and rainforests. Where in the
world are rainforests found?

A In the northern hemisphere

B Along the equator

C In the southern hemisphere

Q6. Forests located far from the equator experience

changes in temperature and daylight throughout the
year due to the tilting of the earth. The plant and
animal species they harbour are well adapted to
these changes. In which type of forest do trees shed
their leaves every year in the Autumn?

A Deciduous

B Rainforest

C Coniferous

D Boreal

Q7. Forests are cleared for timber to make room for

infrastructure and agriculture (often to grow food for
animals). Forests around the world are being cleared
at an alarming rate. How much of our forests are
being cleared every year? An area around the size
of…

A Malta - 122 square miles (316 sq km)

B Andorra - 180 square miles (466 sq km)

C Wales - 8,005 square miles (20,735 sq km)

D Portugal - 35,556 square miles (92,090 sq km)

Q8. Building roads, railways, electric pylons and

pipelines has an impact on wildlife such as grizzly
bears and Siberian tigers as they need large areas of
continuous forest to survive. This is because...

A Pipelines take away water essential for survival

B They confuse dangerous electric pylons with trees

C Infrastructure fragments forests into smaller blocks

Q9. Which of these species doesn’t have a home in

the forest?

A Orangutan

B Grizzly bear

C Ring tailed lemur

D Great hornbill

E Cheetah

Q10. Found mainly in the Amazon rainforest of

South America, which predator’s name comes from
the native word meaning “he who kills with one
leap”?

A Cheetah

B Leopard

C Puma

D Jaguar

Q11. A rainforest could not exist without these

organisms which help to form the soil that nourishes
the forest. Some are also essential for seed
germination and tree growth, connecting with a
tree’s roots to provide minerals and nutrients. What
are they?

A Algae

B Fungi

C Spiders

D Frogs

Q12. Across Sumatra and Borneo, forests are being

cleared to plant this crop. What is it?

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A Oil Palms

B Rubber Trees

C Bamboo

D Banana Trees

Q13. All life on earth depends on freshwater almost

all of which is locked up in ice caps, glaciers or
buried deep underground. How much of the water
on our planet is freshwater?

A Less than 3%

B Around 5%

C Around 15%

D More than 25%

Q14. We use too much water at home and for

farming. How much of the freshwater we use
accounts for agriculture?

A 25%

B 30%

C 60%

D 70%

Q15. With their webbed feet and dense fur, which of

these animals is perfectly adapted to life on the
river?

A Walrus

B Sea lion

C Otter

D Leopard seal

Q16. How many large dams are there in the world?

A 19000

B 30000

C 57000

D 73000

Q17. Billions of these birds inhabited North America

in the early 1800s. Which migratory bird was hunted
to extinction by man?

A Dodo

B Passenger Pigeon

C Labrador Duck

D Laughing Owl

Q18. Standing at up to 176cm, which of these is the

tallest flying bird in the world?

A Sarus Crane

B Andean Condor

C Bar headed Goose

D Black Stork

Q19. These creatures run to the top of dunes when

moisture is in the air and stand on their heads, so
that water runs down their body and into their
mouth. Some have even evolved geometric patterns
of raised areas on their bodies that maximize the
amount of moisture that condenses from the fog.
What creatures are these?

A Namib Beetles

B Bactrian Camels

C Meerkats

D Monarch Butterflies

Q20. ._______ were reintroduced into Switzerland

from Eastern Europe in the 1970s, partly to control
animals such as deer that were overgrazing the
woodlands.

A Eurasian Lynx

B Grey wolves

C Arctic Foxes

D Siberian Tigers

Q21. In which of these biomes do you get the

phenomena of flying rivers, a movement of large
quantities of water vapour in the sky?

© naturepl.com / Michael Pitts / WWF

A Rainforests of South America

B Mangroves of East Africa

C Deserts of Australia

D Tundras of Russia

Q22. Mountain Tree shrews have a symbiotic

relationship with these plants. They use them as
toilets providing the plant with essential minerals.
What plant is it?

A Pitcher Plants

B Cactus

C Ra"esia arnoldii

D Orchids

Q23. On land which animal only ever moves their

hind legs together, however in the water they kick
each leg independently to swim?

A Hippopotamus

B Rhinoceros

C Kangaroo

D Cheetah

Q24. Which of these facts is incorrect about

Walruses?

© Tom Arnbom / WWF-Sweden

The Walrus society has a Tusk-based hierarchy. Longer

A
tusks generate more respect

Its Genus - Odobenus – literally means Tooth Walking

B
Sea Horse

Walruses have a strong mouth that acts as a suction to

C
pull out the shell fish

D The tusks are present only in the male Walrus

Q25. Found only on the islands of Montserrat and

Dominica in the east Caribbean Sea, what type of
animal is the endangered species Mountain
Chicken?

A Frog

B Turtle

C Fish

D Snail

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