Galápagos Islands quiz
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What do marine iguanas mainly eat?
Answer: Seaweed
Why: Their cousins, the Galápagos land iguanas, live mostly on prickly pear cactus instead.
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Which island's tortoises died out with Lonesome George in 2012?
Answer: Pinta
Why: A genetic study published in 2013 found 17 tortoises with partial Pinta ancestry on Isabela's Wolf Volcano.
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Who led the expedition that made the largest Galápagos collection?
Answer: Rollo Beck
Why: The 1905 expedition spent over a year in the archipelago, gathering more than seventy-five thousand specimens.
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How many penguin species are found wild north of the Equator?
Answer: One
Why: Cold, food-rich water welling up from the Cromwell Current lets Galápagos penguins live on the Equator.
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How do marine iguanas survive El Niño famines?
Answer: By shrinking
Why: Some shrank by up to 20% of their body length, and the iguanas that shrank most survived longest.
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What volcano forms the highest point in the Galápagos?
Answer: Volcán Wolf
Why: Volcán Wolf reaches 1,707 meters above sea level, topping nearby Cerro Azul by just eighteen meters.
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