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Endangered Animals Trivia Quiz

This is a fun quiz about endangered animals. While taking this quiz, perhaps try to think of ways to save these animals.

A multiple-choice quiz by poly91. Estimated time: 2 mins.

Author
poly91

Time
2 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
379,137

Updated
Dec 26 23

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Easy

Avg Score
9 / 10

Plays
698

Last 3 plays: Guest 27 (0/10), Kat1982 (6/10), Guest 118 (0/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. I have moist skin and many species. I am becoming endangered or extinct in many parts of the world. I live in swamps, ponds, rivers, and rainforests. What am I? Hint

frog

snake

lizard

fish

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Question 2 of 10

2. I am a wild cat. I have spots and I run very fast. I hunt and live in the savannah. Hint

lion

tiger

bobcat

cheetah

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Question 3 of 10

3. I am black and white. I am found in the wild only in China. I eat bamboo. Hint

panda

grizzly bear

koala

polar bear

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Question 4 of 10

4. I can change color to camouflage myself. I am a kind of reptile. I have a long tail. Hint

lizard

salmander

snake

chameleon

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Question 5 of 10

5. When I was first discovered, I was thought to be a trick made up of many parts of different animals. I live in Australia. Hint

seagull

chicken

goose

platypus

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Question 6 of 10

6. I look like a turtle, but I'm bigger than most turtles. I live on land and can live to be a hundred or more years old. Hint

leatherback turtle

snapper turtle

sea turtle

giant tortoise

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Question 7 of 10

7. I have stripes, sharp teeth, and a long tail. Some of us are orange and some are white. Unlike most cats, we don't mind water. Hint

lynx

lion

tiger

bobcat

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Question 8 of 10

8. I love to eat seals and fish. I have many sharp teeth. I have a fin that makes all swimmers scared. Hint

eel

shark

giant squid

sperm whale

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Question 9 of 10

9. I am the biggest of the sea animals. I am a mammal. I have a blow hole on the top of my head. Hint

dolphin

whale

manatee

sea elephant

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Question 10 of 10

10. I am the largest land animal. I have a trunk and tusks. I am large but can run fast. Hint

rhino

bison

walrus

elephant

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. I have moist skin and many species. I am becoming endangered or extinct in many parts of the world. I live in swamps, ponds, rivers, and rainforests. What am I?

Answer: frog

Many species of frogs and toads are endangered by habitat loss, pollution, pesticides, and the introduction of new animals into their habitats. But, the biggest threat to all of the frogs and toads is a deadly new fungus.

2. I am a wild cat. I have spots and I run very fast. I hunt and live in the savannah.

Answer: cheetah

One reason the cheetah is endanged due due to it being hunted for its beautiful fur. Another reason the cheetah is endangered is due to decreasing habitat and prey for them to hunt.

3. I am black and white. I am found in the wild only in China. I eat bamboo.

Answer: panda

The giant panda is endangered due to vanishing or changing habitats. Many of the pandas are victums of destruction of forests, which is called deforestation. The building of roads and railroads means the pandas are often unable to get to their main food source, bamboo.

4. I can change color to camouflage myself. I am a kind of reptile. I have a long tail.

Answer: chameleon

The chameleon is considered endangered due to loss of its habitat and people selling them as pets. Sometimes a chameleon changes its colour as a response to temperature changes, or to send messages to others.

5. When I was first discovered, I was thought to be a trick made up of many parts of different animals. I live in Australia.

Answer: platypus

Because of the unusual look of this mammal, scientists of long-ago hunted, trapped, and experimented this animal almost to extinction. Another contributing fact to its endangerment is it is only found in the wild in certain areas of Australia and nowhere else in the world.

6. I look like a turtle, but I'm bigger than most turtles. I live on land and can live to be a hundred or more years old.

Answer: giant tortoise

The giant tortoise is endangered due to people hunting them for food. Also, the animals the people brought with them to the tortoises' homeland, the Galapagos Islands, attacked them and ate them.

7. I have stripes, sharp teeth, and a long tail. Some of us are orange and some are white. Unlike most cats, we don't mind water.

Answer: tiger

The main reasons for tigers becoming extinct include hunting for their beautiful fur, to eat their meat, and to make local medicines and remedies. Another reason tigers have all but disappeared is their habitat is shrinking.

8. I love to eat seals and fish. I have many sharp teeth. I have a fin that makes all swimmers scared.

Answer: shark

The biggest reason some sharks are endangered is due to fishing and killing them for their fins to make soup in Asia called shark fin soup. Another problem is them getting caught in commercial fishing nets.

9. I am the biggest of the sea animals. I am a mammal. I have a blow hole on the top of my head.

Answer: whale

The whales of the world have become endangered due to commercial hunting in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They used the fat of whales for lamps and other uses.

10. I am the largest land animal. I have a trunk and tusks. I am large but can run fast.

Answer: elephant

Elephants, rhinos, and walrus have become endangered due to poachers killing them and selling the ivory from their tusks.

Source: Author poly91

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