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Ungulates
Test Description: Chapter 8 Test for Apologia's Exploring Creation with Zoology 3
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Inhaling water to spray for drinking or bathing, picking things up, greeting others, sensing predators, slapping for defense, and tearing up food are all
A
unique techniques tapirs use their noses.
B
methods that ungulates relate to other members of their family group.
C
ways to tell the difference between mastadons and mammoths.
D
possible uses of an elephant's trunk.
2) Elephants blow dust
A
as a means of escaping predators by screening them from view.
B
to show other elephants where they are located.
C
to get oxfeeder birds off their backs.
D
as a means of sunscreen and insect repellant.
3) What makes a wooly mammoth similar to (and still different from) an elephant?
A
The dietary needs of a wooly mammoth are the same as an Asian elephant.
B
A wooly mammoth has tusks that curl upward, and it is covered with long hair.
C
A wooly mammoth lives in the same region as elephants do--both in Africa and in Asia.
D
A wooly mammoth is about the same weight and size as an African elephant.
4) What is about the discovery of ice-encased mammoths in Siberia that makes them so intriguing to scientists?
A
They are evidence that Siberia was once not as cold as it is now.
B
The mammoths' stomach contents are preserved in the freezing process.
C
All of the answers are true.
D
They seem to be evidence that an ice age did cool portions of the earth many years ago.
5) What kind of habitat did mastadons live in?
A
Open plains, grazing on grasses and flowers.
B
Frozen tundra, living on buried potato mounds.
C
Forests, eating mostly twigs and leaves.
D
None of these answers is accurate.
6) How are horses and ponies different?
A
Their height and the thickness of their manes and tails.
B
Their teeth shape and number.
C
Their age.
D
Their hoof size.
7) What does it mean when a horse is labeled hot-, warm-, or cold-blooded?
A
There is not a difference in them; all horses are warm-blooded.
B
They indicate where the horse lives and breeds.
C
They identify quarter horses from all other horses.
D
They are terms to indicate its specific personalities, characteristics, and temperament.
8) What is a filly?
A
A female horse that hasn't fully grown.
B
A male horse that hasn't fully grown.
C
An adult male horse that has been neutered.
D
A fully grown female horse.
9) What is a foal?
A
A horse that is less than 14.2 hands tall.
B
Any horse that is not yet one year old.
C
Any horse that still residing in the same corral as its mother.
D
All of these answers are accurate.
10) What is a yearling?
A
A fully grown male.
B
A horse that is between one and two years old.
C
The wooly mammoth whose stomach contents are still distinctly evident.
D
A fully grown female horse.
11) What is a stallion?
A
A fully grown male horse.
B
A male horse that isn't fully grown.
C
A year-old horse.
D
A fully grown female horse.
12) What is a mare?
A
A fully grown female horse.
B
A horse that isn't a year old.
C
An adult male horse that has been neutered to make it calmer.
D
A fully grown male horse.
13) What is a colt?
A
A male horse that isn't fully grown.
B
None of these answers is accurate.
C
A horse that isn't a year old yet--of either gender.
D
A female horse that isn't fully grown.
14) What do all these have in common: body is smaller, ears are larger, voice is louder, personality is less compliant, mane hair is stiff, tail is tasseled, and names include jack, jennet, and burro.
A
These are all characteristics of a horse.
B
These are all characteristics of a donkey.
C
These are all characteristics of a mule.
D
These are all characteristics of a zebra.
15) What is the difference between a mule and a donkey?
A
A hinney comes from a female donkey mating with a male horse.
B
All of these answers are accurate.
C
A mule comes from a female horse mating with a donkey.
D
A mule cannot reproduce, while a donkey can.
16) What is unique about a zebra's stripes or markings?
A
A zebra's strips always start with black on the face and move back symmetrically between black and white.
B
Zebra stripes always end in white on the legs before the hoof.
C
Each zebra has an equal number of black stripes to white stripes.
D
Each zebra has a unique set of markings--much like humans' fingerprints.
17) Rhinoceroses are endangered because
A
people capture them for pets.
B
other animals have preyed upon rhinos and have nearly killed them off.
C
people are taking more and more of their territory so they are dying out.
D
people hunt them for their horns.
18) Of what is a rhino's horn made?
A
The same material as its skin.
B
It is a hollow bone covered by skin.
C
The same material as human hair.
D
The same material as its hooves.
19) How is a tapir like an elephant?
A
It has a proboscis.
B
It is found only in Africa and Asia.
C
Its skin is tough like durable leather.
D
It has hair over its entire body.
20) How are tapirs like pigs?
A
Tapirs cool themselves off in dry dirt pits like pigs.
B
Tapirs have a distinctive 'oink' sound similar to pigs.
C
Tapirs's body shape is short and stout like a pig.
D
Tapirs have babies called piglets.
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