Rainforest Animals Quiz

Question 1

Which is the largest rainforest in the world?

Accepted Answer

The Amazon Rainforest

Answer

The Congo Rainforest

Answer

The Borneo Rainforest

Answer

The Daintree Rainforest

Question 2

Which large spotted cat is the top predator of the Amazon rainforest?

Accepted Answer

Jaguar

Answer

Leopard

Answer

Cheetah

Answer

Cougar

Question 3

Which brightly coloured rainforest frog uses poison to defend itself?

Accepted Answer

Poison dart frog

Answer

Tree frog

Answer

Bullfrog

Answer

Horned frog

Question 4

Which large rainforest bird from South America has a massive, colourful beak?

Accepted Answer

Toucan

Answer

Macaw

Answer

Parrot

Answer

Hornbill

Question 5

What is the world's largest rodent, found in South American rainforests?

Accepted Answer

Capybara

Answer

Nutria

Answer

Giant otter

Answer

Paca

Question 6

Which rainforest animal is the world's slowest mammal?

Accepted Answer

Sloth

Answer

Tapir

Answer

Anteater

Answer

Armadillo

Question 7

Which large, colourful rainforest parrot is known for its intelligence and vivid feathers?

Accepted Answer

Macaw

Answer

Toucan

Answer

Hornbill

Answer

Ibis

Question 8

What does an anteater eat?

Accepted Answer

Ants and termites only

Answer

Fruit and leaves

Answer

Small mammals and insects

Answer

Fish and frogs

Question 9

Which rainforest animal can glide between trees using flaps of skin along its sides?

Accepted Answer

All of these can glide

Answer

Flying squirrel

Answer

Colugos (flying lemur)

Answer

Wallace's flying frog

Question 10

Which enormous snake, native to South American rainforests, is the world's heaviest snake?

Accepted Answer

Anaconda

Answer

Reticulated python

Answer

Boa constrictor

Answer

Burmese python

Question 11

What percentage of all animal and plant species on Earth live in rainforests?

Accepted Answer

About 50%

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About 10%

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About 25%

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About 75%

Question 12

Which black-and-white rainforest animal from the Congo sprays a foul-smelling liquid to defend itself?

Accepted Answer

Zorilla (striped polecat)

Answer

Honey badger

Answer

Colobus monkey

Answer

African civet

Question 13

Which layers make up a rainforest from top to bottom?

Accepted Answer

Emergent, canopy, understorey, forest floor

Answer

Roof, middle, floor

Answer

Crown, trunk, roots

Answer

Top, middle, bottom, underground

Question 14

Which rainforest animal is famous for its very long, extendable tongue used to catch insects?

Accepted Answer

Chameleon

Answer

Toucan

Answer

Anteater

Answer

Armadillo

Question 15

The okapi looks like a mixture of which two animals?

Accepted Answer

Giraffe and zebra

Answer

Zebra and horse

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Donkey and deer

Answer

Horse and deer

Question 16

Which primate found in Borneo and Sumatra is critically endangered due to rainforest destruction?

Accepted Answer

Orang-utan

Answer

Gorilla

Answer

Chimpanzee

Answer

Gibbon

Question 17

What special ability does the mimic octopus share with some rainforest animals?

Accepted Answer

It can mimic the appearance and behaviour of other dangerous animals

Answer

It can photosynthesize like a plant

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It can survive without water for months

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It can change temperature to match its surroundings

Question 18

Which insect in the Amazon rainforest is famous for cutting leaves and carrying them to its underground fungus gardens?

Accepted Answer

Leafcutter ant

Answer

Termite

Answer

Carpenter bee

Answer

Praying mantis

Question 19

What makes the axolotl remarkable compared to other amphibians?

Accepted Answer

It never leaves the water or transforms into an adult form — it stays in its larval state forever

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It can survive on land and in water equally

Answer

It lays eggs on land but young hatch in water

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It is the only amphibian with fur

Question 20

Which South American rainforest animal uses its prehensile tail like a fifth limb to grip branches?

Accepted Answer

Spider monkey

Answer

Ocelot

Answer

Tapir

Answer

Peccary