KB General Science 2013 #7

Question 1

What animal is responsible for the most worldwide deaths?

Answer 1

mosquito

Question 2

How many feet are in a mile?

Answer 2

5,280

Question 3

What term means a number of geese grouped together?

Answer 3

gaggle

Question 4

What is the largest meat eating shark?

Answer 4

the Great White

Question 5

On what continent would I find the “Ivory Coast”?

Answer 5

Africa

Question 6

Breaking the barrier of the speed of sound results in what?

Answer 6

sonic boom

Question 7

What is the biological name given to the group of organisms that includes mushrooms?

Answer 7

fungi

Question 8

What animal on Earth makes the loudest noise?

Answer 8

blue whale whistle

Question 9

What is the preferred food for polar bears?

Answer 9

seals

Question 10

What color is the skin on a polar bear?

Answer 10

black

Question 11

What gorilla was taught sign language by her “mom,” psychologist Francine Patterson, and is part of the longest continuous interspecies communications projects of its kind in the world?

Answer 11

Koko

Question 12

A lemur is a type of pro-simian that evolved on one specific island. Name the island.

Answer 12

Madagascar

Question 13

What is the name given to a female rabbit?

Answer 13

doe

Question 14

What disease can armadillos contract that can help doctors study the disease in humans?

Answer 14

leprosy

Question 15

What is the term given to the fat on a whale’s body?

Answer 15

blubber

Question 16

What herbivorous sea mammal is often called a sea cow?

Answer 16

manatee

Question 17

What continent is native to the koala bear?

Answer 17

Australia

Question 18

The platypus is a mammal that lacks a trait common to the majority of other mammals. What trait does it lack?

Answer 18

doesn’t bear live young

Question 19

What is the color of a giraffe’s tongue?

Answer 19

black or blue/black

Question 20

What continent is native to the platypus?

Answer 20

Australia