Animal Adaptations quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What does a camel's hump mainly store?

   Answer: Fat

   Why: Keeping its fat in one hump leaves the rest of the body with little insulation, so heat escapes more easily.

2. 2 Medium

   Which animal has the densest fur?

   Answer: Sea otter

   Why: Unlike most marine mammals, sea otters have no blubber, so air trapped in that fur is what keeps cold water off their skin.

3. 3 Hard

   What sugar fuels naked mole-rats when oxygen runs out?

   Answer: Fructose

   Why: Running on fructose, naked mole-rats survived 18 minutes with no oxygen at all in lab tests and woke up apparently unharmed.

4. 4 Easy

   What do leaf-cutter ant larvae eat?

   Answer: Fungus

   Why: The cut leaves feed a fungus garden, and the partnership is so tight that neither the fungus nor the larvae can do without the other.

5. 5 Medium

   When does a rattlesnake add a new segment to its rattle?

   Answer: Each skin shed

   Why: Young rattlesnakes can shed three or four times a year and old segments break off, so a rattle can't reveal a snake's age.

6. 6 Hard

   Which rule says cold-climate animals have shorter limbs and ears?

   Answer: Allen's rule

   Why: Bergmann's rule is the size rule instead: within a group, bigger species and populations are found in colder places.