Animals & nature – quiz questions with answers

10 questions with answers about Animals & nature, from the free QuizBoards pack – the full theme holds 60. Each category holds five questions of rising difficulty and point value.

Cold-Blooded

100. The crocodile relative with a broad, rounded snout that lives in the swamps of the south-eastern USA
Answer: Alligator

200. The largest living lizard, which can weigh 70 kilos and lives on Indonesian islands
Answer: Komodo dragon

300. South America's heaviest snake, which hunts in water and crushes its prey instead of poisoning it
Answer: Anaconda

400. The Galápagos lizard that is the only one in the world to dive for its food and sneeze out excess salt
Answer: Marine iguana

500. The Cretaceous flying reptile that had a wingspan of up to ten metres and is named after the Aztecs' feathered serpent god
Answer: Quetzalcoatlus

Out to Sea

100. The largest animal that has ever existed, with a heart the size of a car
Answer: The blue whale

200. The world's largest fish, a spotted giant that harmlessly filters plankton
Answer: The whale shark

300. The mollusc with three hearts and blue blood that can squeeze through openings barely larger than its beak.
Answer: The octopus

400. The nearly transparent, deadly venomous cnidarian of Australian waters
Answer: The box jellyfish

500. The fish of the pitch-black depths whose female lures prey with a glowing "rod" and whose tiny male lives fused to her
Answer: Anglerfish

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