Animal Diets for Kids Quiz

Question 1

What is a herbivore?

Accepted Answer

An animal that eats only plants

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An animal that eats only meat

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An animal that eats both plants and animals

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An animal that eats insects only

Question 2

What is a carnivore?

Accepted Answer

An animal that eats only meat (other animals)

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An animal that eats only plants

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An animal that eats both meat and plants

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An animal that eats only fish

Question 3

Which of these animals is an omnivore (eats both plants and animals)?

Accepted Answer

Bear

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Rabbit

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Lion

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Cow

Question 4

What does a filter feeder eat?

Accepted Answer

It strains tiny organisms from water — like plankton and krill

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It filters out meat from plants

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It eats only filtered/clean water

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It eats only very fine grains of sand for minerals

Question 5

What do pandas eat almost exclusively?

Accepted Answer

Bamboo

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Fish from mountain streams

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Fruit and berries

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Insects and grubs

Question 6

The Venus flytrap is a plant that eats insects. What type of organism is it?

Accepted Answer

A carnivorous plant

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A parasitic plant

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A fungus that mimics a plant

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An insect trap, not a plant

Question 7

What is a 'scavenger' and give an example?

Accepted Answer

An animal that feeds mainly on dead or decaying animals rather than hunting live prey

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A predator that only hunts at night

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An animal that steals food from other predators

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An animal that eats only fruit that has fallen to the ground

Question 8

The giant anteater has no teeth. How does it manage to eat hard insects?

Accepted Answer

It has a tough, muscular stomach (like a gizzard) that grinds up insects it has swallowed whole

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It soaks ants in its saliva to dissolve them

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Its tongue secretes acids that dissolve the insects

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It only eats very soft larvae, avoiding hard adult insects

Question 9

Sharks are often thought of as ferocious man-eaters. What do most sharks actually eat?

Accepted Answer

Mainly fish, squid, and crustaceans — with larger species eating marine mammals

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Only large mammals like seals

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Only dead animals (scavenged)

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Mainly seaweed and algae

Question 10

What do woodpeckers eat, and how do they find their food?

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Insects hiding under bark, found by pecking wood and using their long, barbed tongue to extract them

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Seeds from pine cones extracted with their powerful beak

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Berries and fruits from forest trees

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Nectar from tree flowers

Question 11

The koala eats eucalyptus leaves that are toxic to most animals. How does the koala survive eating them?

Accepted Answer

They have specialised gut bacteria and an extra-long caecum (digestive organ) that detoxifies the leaves

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Koalas build up immunity by eating tiny amounts from birth

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They only eat the young shoots which have less toxin

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They vomit the toxins back up after absorbing nutrients

Question 12

What does the vampire bat feed on, and how does it find its prey at night?

Accepted Answer

The blood of livestock and occasionally other mammals, using heat sensors to find blood vessels

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Fruit and nectar only

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Small insects caught mid-air

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Dead animals found by smell

Question 13

What is a 'detritivore' and give an example?

Accepted Answer

An animal that eats detritus (decomposing organic matter) and is vital for nutrient recycling

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A very small herbivore

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An animal that eats only decomposed fruit

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A scavenger that eats bones

Question 14

Why do some animals store food, and which animals do this?

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To ensure food availability during winter or when prey is scarce — squirrels bury nuts, leopards cache prey in trees

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Only for display to attract mates

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Only captive animals do this; wild animals don't plan ahead

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To protect food from other members of their own species only

Question 15

What is a food chain and give a simple example?

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A sequence showing who eats whom — from producers (plants) through to top predators

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A list of all animals that a predator eats

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A chain of animals connected by similar diets

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The order in which animals eat at a watering hole

Question 16

What do hummingbirds eat and what special adaptation do they have for getting it?

Accepted Answer

Both nectar and tiny insects for protein

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Insects caught in hovering flight

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Nectar from flowers, accessed by hovering and using their long, tube-like bills and tongues

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Fruit juices from ripe berries

Question 17

The blue whale is the largest animal ever, yet its food is tiny. What does it eat and how much per day?

Accepted Answer

Krill (tiny shrimp-like crustaceans) — up to 4 tonnes per day during feeding season

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Large fish like tuna and swordfish — about 500 kg per day

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Squid and octopus — about 1 tonne per day

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Plankton filtered from seawater — about 500 litres per day

Question 18

Which animal has the most varied diet of any land predator — eating everything from moose to berries to fish to mushrooms?

Accepted Answer

Grizzly bear

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Wolf

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Brown bear

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Wolverine

Question 19

What is a 'keystone species' and give an example relating to feeding?

Accepted Answer

A species whose feeding habits have a disproportionately large impact on its ecosystem — like wolves regulating deer populations

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Any endangered species

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The top predator in any food chain

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A species that eats only one type of food

Question 20

Some animals are 'specialist' feeders; others are 'generalist' feeders. Which strategy is more resilient to environmental change?

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Generalist feeders — they can switch to alternative food sources when their preferred food becomes scarce

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Specialist feeders — they are perfectly optimised

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Both strategies are equally resilient

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Specialist feeders — their focus means they are always better at finding food