American Wildlife

Question 1

Which large spotted cat is the apex terrestrial ambush predator native to the rainforests of the Americas?

Accepted Answer

Jaguar

Answer

Cougar

Answer

Ocelot

Answer

Jaguarundi

Question 2

Which North American ungulate is capable of maintaining speeds over fifty miles per hour, second only to the cheetah?

Accepted Answer

Pronghorn

Answer

Bighorn sheep

Answer

Elk

Answer

White-tailed deer

Question 3

What slow-moving Neotropical mammal spends virtually its whole life hanging upside down in the rainforest canopy?

Accepted Answer

Three-toed sloth

Answer

Kinkajou

Answer

Tamandua

Answer

Woolly monkey

Question 4

Which marsupial is the only native representative of its taxonomic infraclass found wild in the United States and Canada?

Accepted Answer

Virginia opossum

Answer

Monito del monte

Answer

Woolly opossum

Answer

Shrew opossum

Question 5

Which large rodent native to South America represents the heaviest and largest living rodent on Earth?

Accepted Answer

Capybara

Answer

Nutria

Answer

Paca

Answer

Agouti

Question 6

What large marine mammal, often called a sea cow, browses peacefully on shallow seagrass beds in Florida and the Caribbean?

Accepted Answer

West Indian manatee

Answer

Dugong

Answer

Steller's sea cow

Answer

Amazonian manatee

Question 7

Which bird of prey found in Central and South American rainforests possesses talons larger than those of a grizzly bear?

Accepted Answer

Harpy eagle

Answer

Bald eagle

Answer

Crown hawk-eagle

Answer

Crested caracara

Question 8

Which venomous lizard is native to the Sonoran and Mojave desert regions of the southwestern United States and Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Gila monster

Answer

Chuckwalla

Answer

Desert iguana

Answer

Collared lizard

Question 9

What wild camelid wanders the harsh, arid grasslands of Patagonia and the high elevations of the Andes?

Accepted Answer

Guanaco

Answer

Alpaca

Answer

Llama

Answer

Vicugna pacos

Question 10

Which crocodilian species with broad rounded snouts is endemic to rivers, swamps, and bayous of the southeastern United States?

Accepted Answer

American alligator

Answer

American crocodile

Answer

Spectacled caiman

Answer

Black caiman

American Wildlife

Über dieses Quiz

Which large spotted cat is the apex terrestrial ambush predator native to the rainforests of the Americas?

Lösungsschlüssel

Frage 1: Which large spotted cat is the apex terrestrial ambush predator native to the rainforests of the Americas?

Frage 2: Which North American ungulate is capable of maintaining speeds over fifty miles per hour, second only to the cheetah?

Frage 3: What slow-moving Neotropical mammal spends virtually its whole life hanging upside down in the rainforest canopy?

Frage 4: Which marsupial is the only native representative of its taxonomic infraclass found wild in the United States and Canada?

Frage 5: Which large rodent native to South America represents the heaviest and largest living rodent on Earth?

Frage 6: What large marine mammal, often called a sea cow, browses peacefully on shallow seagrass beds in Florida and the Caribbean?

Frage 7: Which bird of prey found in Central and South American rainforests possesses talons larger than those of a grizzly bear?

Frage 8: Which venomous lizard is native to the Sonoran and Mojave desert regions of the southwestern United States and Mexico?

Frage 9: What wild camelid wanders the harsh, arid grasslands of Patagonia and the high elevations of the Andes?

Frage 10: Which crocodilian species with broad rounded snouts is endemic to rivers, swamps, and bayous of the southeastern United States?