ANSWERS WILD WISDOM QUIZ

FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

1) What does the term biodiversity
mean?
5) There are different types of forests
including boreal, deciduous and
rainforests. Where in the world are
a. The total variety of all life on earth rainforests found?
b. Lots of wild habitats
c. Different types of species a. In the northern hemisphere
d. The variety of characteristics within a b. Along the equator
species c. In the Southern hemisphere

2) What covers one third of the land’s

surface, and helps to keep the climate
6) Forests located far from the
equator experience changes in
stable by storing carbon? temperature and daylight
throughout the year due to the tilting
a. Forests of the earth. The plant and animal
b. Desert species they harbour are well
c. Grasslands adapted to these changes. In which
d. Rivers type of forest do trees shed their
leaves every year in the Autumn?
3) Why are pollinators such as bees so
essential to life on earth? a. Deciduous
b. Rainforest
a. They provide oxygen c. Coniferous
b. They turn over the soil helping plants d. Boreal
to grow
c. They help reduce pest populations
d.They help provide the food we eat
7) Forests are cleared for timber and
to make room for infrastructure and
agriculture (often to grow food for
4) Some pitcher plants are found deep in
jungles. What is strange about these
animals). Forests around the world
are being cleared at an alarming
unusual plants? rate. How much of our forests are
being cleared every year? An area
a. They are carnivorous around the size of...
b. They take three years to grow to full
size
c. They live for 100 years a. Malta: 122 square miles
d.There are over 50 species of Bornean b. Andorra: 180 square miles
pitcher plant c. Wales: 8,005 square miles
d. Portugal: 35,556 square miles
 8) Building roads, railways, electric
pylons and pipelines has an impact on
12) Across Sumatra and Borneo, forests
are being cleared to plant this crop.
wildlife such as grizzly bears and What is it?
Siberian tigers as they need large
areas of continuous forest to survive. a. Oil Palms
This is because... b. Rubber Trees
c. Bamboo
a. Pipelines take away water essential d. Banana Trees
for survival
b. They confuse dangerous electric
pylons with trees
13) All life on earth depends on freshwa-
ter almost all of which is locked up in
c. Infrastructure fragments forests into ice caps, glaciers or buried deep un-
smaller blocks derground. How much of the water
on our planet is freshwater?
9) Which of these species doesn’t have a
home in the forest? a. Less than 3%
b. Around 5%
a. Orangutan c. Around 15%
b. Grizzly bear d. More than 25%
c. Ring tailed lemur
d.Great hornbill
e. Cheetah 14) We use too much water at home and
e. Cheetah for farming. How much of the
10) freshwater we use accounts for
Found mainly in the Amazon rain- agriculture?
forest of South America, which pred-
ator’s name comes from the native a. 25%
word meaning “he who kills with one b. 30%
leap”? c. 60%
d. 70%
a. Cheetah
b.
c.
Leopard
Puma
15) With their webbed feet and dense
fur, which of these animals is
d. Jaguar perfectly adapted to life on the river?
11) A rainforest could not exist without a. Walrus
these organisms which help to form b. Sea lion
the soil that nourishes the forest. c. Otter
Some are also essential for seed d. Leopard seal
germination and tree growth,
connecting with a tree’s roots to pro-
vide minerals and nutrients. What are 16) How many large dams are there in
the world?
they?
a. 19,000
a. Algae b. 30,000
b. Fungi c. 57,000
c. Spiders d. 73,000
d. Frogs
17) Billions of these birds inhabited North
America in the early 1800s. Which
22) Mountain Tree shrews have a
symbiotic relationship with these
migratory bird was hunted to extinction plants. They use them as toilets
by man? providing the plant with essential
minerals. What plant is it?
a. Dodo
b. Passenger Pigeon a. Pitcher Plants
c. Labrador Duck b. Cactus
d. Laughting Owl c. Rafflesia arnoldii
d. Orchids
18) Standing at up to 176cm, which of these
is the tallest flying bird in the world?
23) On land which animal only ever
moves their hind legs together, how-
a. Sarus Crane ever in the water they kick each leg
b. Andean Condor independently to swim?
c. Bar headed Goose
d. Black Stork a. Hippopotamus
b. Rhinoceros
19) These creatures run to the top of dunes
when moisture is in the air and stand
c.
d,
Kangaroo
Cheetah
on their heads, so that water runs down
their body and into their mouth. Some 24) Which of these facts is incorrect
have even evolved geometric patterns of about Walruses?
raised areas on their bodies that
maximize the amount of moisture that a. The Walrus society has a
condenses from the fog. What creatures tusk-based hierarchy. Longer tusks
are these? generate more respect.
b. Its Genus - Odobenus – liter-
a. Namib Beetles ally means Walking Tooth
b. Bactrian Camels c. Walruses have strong mouth
c. Meerkats that acts as suctions to harvest shell
d. Monarch Butterflies fish
d. The tusks are present only in the
20) _______ were reintroduced into Swit-
zerland from Eastern Europe in the
male Walrus

1970s, partly to control animals such as

deer that were overgrazing the wood-
25) Found only on the islands of
Montserrat and Dominica in the east
lands. Caribbean Sea, what type of animal
is the endangered species Mountain
a. Eurasian Lynx Chicken?
b. Grey wolves
c. Arctic Foxes a. Frog
d. Siberian Tigers b. Turtle
c. Fish
21) In which of these biomes do you get the d. Snail
phenomena of flying rivers, a movement
of large quantities of water vapour in the
sky?
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a. Rainforests of South America top two scorers and they will be
b. Mangroves of East Africa entered into a prize draw to enter
c. Deserts of Australia the National final!
d. Tundras of Russia