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Olympiad (Class 5) Animals — practice questions

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Why must a cow, unlike a grass plant, search for food?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these living things also cannot make its own food, like animals?Read the answer and worked solution →In a food chain, a goat eating grass is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →An animal that eats both plants and other animals is called a(n):Read the answer and worked solution →An animal that feeds mainly on flower nectar is a:Read the answer and worked solution →A kingfisher that eats mainly fish is a:Read the answer and worked solution →A deer runs very fast to escape a tiger. Its speed is a(n):Read the answer and worked solution →A tiger hunts and eats a deer. In this pair the deer is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Animals first appeared in the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which is the largest animal that has ever lived?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is the largest animal living on land today?Read the answer and worked solution →A blue whale grows up to 33.6 m long and an African bush elephant up to 10.67 m. The whale is longer by about:Read the answer and worked solution →Which animal has a gut with only one opening?Read the answer and worked solution →A Hydra grows a small bud that becomes a new Hydra. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →Young produced by asexual reproduction are usually:Read the answer and worked solution →Aphids can lay fertile eggs without mating. This is called:Read the answer and worked solution →In animals, the smaller sex cell that can swim is the:Read the answer and worked solution →When a sperm and an egg join, the new cell formed is a:Read the answer and worked solution →Which bird flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year?Read the answer and worked solution →An Arctic tern flies at least 19,000 km in a year. In two years it flies at least:Read the answer and worked solution →What mainly tells birds when to start migrating?Read the answer and worked solution →Birds that use a sun compass must adjust for the sun's:Read the answer and worked solution →About 1,800 of the world's 10,000 bird species migrate far. This is about:Read the answer and worked solution →Many birds fly far away each year as the seasons change. This is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Salmon live partly in the sea and partly in rivers. Such fish are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The sardine run in southern Africa happens between:Read the answer and worked solution →In monarch butterflies the long migration is completed by:Read the answer and worked solution →Which insect crosses the ocean between India and Africa?Read the answer and worked solution →In October 1988 swarms of desert locusts flew west across which ocean?Read the answer and worked solution →The Serengeti great migration is mainly of which animal?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Why must a cow, unlike a grass plant, search for food?

  1. It cannot breathe in air
  2. It has no need of energy
  3. It cannot make its own food
  4. It grows only in soil
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Correct answer: C. It cannot make its own food

A cow has no way to build food from sunlight, so it has to eat plants.

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Which of these living things also cannot make its own food, like animals?

  1. Algae
  2. Ferns
  3. Mosses
  4. Fungi
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Correct answer: D. Fungi

Fungi take in food made by others, just as animals do, while algae, ferns and mosses make their own.

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In a food chain, a goat eating grass is called a:

  1. Fungal decomposer
  2. Apex predator
  3. Primary consumer
  4. Food producer
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Correct answer: C. Primary consumer

Herbivores eat the plant material directly, which makes them the first consumers in the chain.

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