Mrs Nerg's living animal quiz!
All living animals eat, drink, respire, excrete, move, grow and reproduce - but if you've looked at our pages you should know about the life processes by now. So, scroll down and try Mrs Nerg's quiz designed to test your knowledge of the seven life processes.
Start here - click on the answers you think are right!
1. Frogs and toads get about by jumping from place to place. Their skeletons are adapted to jumping, they have a:
2. Birds walk around on their back legs, but they also fly. To do this, their skeletons have adapted so that their 'arms' have turned into:
3. Humans grow gradually and steadily, but some animals have to shed their skeletons and grow a new one if they are to get any bigger. These animals include:
4. Kangaroos and koalas carry their babies around in their pouches. When they are born kangaroo babies are about the size of:
5. Tadpoles have to change a lot before they turn into frogs. These changes include:
6. Humans have three types of teeth - incisors, canines and molars. In total an adult human has:
7. Humans are omnivores - eating a bit everything. Animals that eat just meat are called carnivores. Carnivore have well developed:
8. Cows are herbivores. They have well developed molars for chewing grass. They also have four stomachs - this is because:
9. People think that respiration means breathing - this is not true. Respiration is a chemical reaction that turns glucose and oxygen into:
10. Birds do not want to store a lot of water in their bodies - it would make them too heavy to fly. They produce uric acid instead of urine. It is the:
11. The platypus has poor eyesight. To find its prey it uses special receptors in its bill. These receptors pick up:
12. Snakes also have interesting ways of sensing their environment. Some snakes: