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