Animal Senses Quiz: Trivia Facts!

1. What are the five senses?

Happy, sad, excited, bored, and stressed

Sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch

To survive, to adapt, to live, to reproduce, and to communicate

Elephants, lions, honeybees, owls, and mice

The five senses (the powers of the body to perceive things) are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

Explanation

The five senses (the powers of the body to perceive things) are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

2. What do elephants use their senses of smell and touch for?

To find food, water, and other animals

To feel happy

To see around

To feed their babies

They use their senses of smell and touch to find food, water, and other animals.

Explanation

They use their senses of smell and touch to find food, water, and other animals.

3. What do honeybees use the nectar for?

To make honey in the hive

To smell good

To communicate with other bees

To see in the dark

Honeybees use nectar to make honey in the hive. Nectar is a sweet liquid that is collected by bees from flowers. They store the nectar in their honey stomachs and bring it back to the hive. Once in the hive, the bees pass the nectar from bee to bee, adding enzymes to it. This process helps to break down the sugars in the nectar and transform it into honey. The honey is then stored in honeycomb cells and serves as a food source for the bees, especially during times when there is a scarcity of flowers or in winter when they cannot forage.

Explanation

Honeybees use nectar to make honey in the hive. Nectar is a sweet liquid that is collected by bees from flowers. They store the nectar in their honey stomachs and bring it back to the hive. Once in the hive, the bees pass the nectar from bee to bee, adding enzymes to it. This process helps to break down the sugars in the nectar and transform it into honey. The honey is then stored in honeycomb cells and serves as a food source for the bees, especially during times when there is a scarcity of flowers or in winter when they cannot forage.

4. What is true about elephants' trunks?

They use their trunk to smell the air and the ground.

They breathe and smell with their trunks.

They touch each other with their trunks to communicate.

All of the above

Elephants' trunks are one of the most versatile organs in nature. They can use it for almost anything from smelling, touching, lifting heavy things, etc.

Explanation

Elephants' trunks are one of the most versatile organs in nature. They can use it for almost anything from smelling, touching, lifting heavy things, etc.

5. What do owls feed on?

They feed on plants.

They feed on fruits.

They feed on other animals.

They feed on bees.

They are predators, so they eat other small animals.

Explanation

They are predators, so they eat other small animals.

6. What is prey?

Animals that are eaten by other animals.

Plants that are eaten by animals.

Animals that eat other animals.

Animals that eat plants.

A prey is a dead animal.

The correct answer is "Animals that are eaten by other animals." Prey refers to animals that are hunted and eaten by other animals. This term is used to describe the relationship between predators and their food source. Prey animals are typically herbivores or smaller carnivores that are targeted by larger predators for sustenance. This relationship is essential for maintaining the balance of ecosystems and the survival of various species.

Explanation

The correct answer is "Animals that are eaten by other animals." Prey refers to animals that are hunted and eaten by other animals. This term is used to describe the relationship between predators and their food source. Prey animals are typically herbivores or smaller carnivores that are targeted by larger predators for sustenance. This relationship is essential for maintaining the balance of ecosystems and the survival of various species.

7. What is the main idea of this paragraph?"Animals use their senses to survive in nature. Animal’s abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch help them find food. Animals also use their senses to avoid, or stay away from, their enemies."

Animals use their senses to avoid danger.

Animals can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.

Animals use their senses to find food.

Animals use their senses to stay alive in the natural world.

Letter D is the main idea because the other three sentences are facts that support the main idea.

Explanation

Letter D is the main idea because the other three sentences are facts that support the main idea.

8. How do honeybees show to others that food is far away?

By making sounds

By dancing in figure eight and wiggling

By feeding on nectar

By smelling other bees

They dance in figure eight (8) and wiggle to show that food is far away.

Explanation

They dance in figure eight (8) and wiggle to show that food is far away.

9. What is true about the elephants' sense of hearing?

They can hear vibrations from the ground.

They can see other animals that are far away.

They can see thunders in the distance.

They can hear low-frequency sound that we cannot hear.

Elephants can hear low-frequency sounds that human ears can't.

Explanation

Elephants can hear low-frequency sounds that human ears can't.

10. Why is it important for elephants to feel vibrations in the ground?

So they can know where the rainwater is by feeling the ground shake due to thunder.

Because they need to know where they are in the jungle.

So they can see where the rain is.

Because they need to communicate with other elephants.

When thunder makes the ground shake far away, elephants feel the direction of the thunder with their feet. Then the elephants know where to find rainwater.

Explanation

When thunder makes the ground shake far away, elephants feel the direction of the thunder with their feet. Then the elephants know where to find rainwater.