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Chapter 7 Test For Apologia's Exploring Creation With Zoology #3: Land Animals. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

What makes a rodent a rodent?
a) Teeth that need to gnaw.
b) Location where they live.
c) Dietary similarities.
d) Size.

How are rodents helpful to the world?
a) All of these answers are accurate.
b) They provide food for many wild animals.
c) They are important for seed dispersal.
d) They are useful in science laboratories.

What is a way in which rodents are destructive?
a) They carry parasites that spread diseases.
b) They burrow into hills and mounds, causing weakened land areas.
c) They cause flooding of acres of land.
d) They overeat grasses in major portions of the world.

Mouse-like rodents, squirrel-like rodents, and cavy-like rodents are
a) the three main groups into which scientists split rodents.
b) all poisonous groups of rodents.
c) all destructive groups of rodents that alter ecosystems throughout the world.
d) the three groups of rodents found in Antarctica.

Moles, hedgehogs, shrews, solenodons, and tenrecs are all
a) from the order Insectivora in rodents because they eat insects.
b) from the order Monotremata because they produce milk and lay eggs.
c) from the order Dermoptera because they have 'skin wings.'
d) unable to see well, so they live underground.

What is unique about the rodents that includes shrews and solenodons?
a) They are poisonous in their bite.
b) They are tree-climbing rodents.
c) They are from Europe, Africa, and Asia.
d) They are spiny in nature.

Which creature is a social mammal, lives in burrows underground, and has underdeveloped (altricial) babies?
a) Rabbits
b) Hares
c) Pikas
d) Platypuses

Why are the platypus and the echidna difficult to classify as mammals?
a) They lay eggs.
b) They both are from England.
c) They have spines.
d) They have pointed noses.

How is an echidna like a marsupial?
a) It has a pouch or marsupium to carry its newborn.
b) It is found in Australia only.
c) It is able to nurse its young with ant milk.
d) None of these answers is correct.

Which animal in order Edentata really has no teeth?
a) An anteater
b) A sloth
c) An aardvark
d) An armadillo

Which animal is the rodent-like creature that carries the disease of leprosy?
a) Armadillos
b) Rabbits
c) Colugos
d) Aardvarks

What makes an aardvark different from an anteater?
a) It is smaller than most anteaters, has thinner hair, and has a flattened snout.
b) It is larger than most anteaters, has thicker hair, and has a narrow snout.
c) It lives in Australia instead of Africa.
d) It is hard-shelled, instead of purely fur-covered.

How do armadillos float in spite of their hard shells?
a) They gulp in air to make themselves more buoyant.
b) They use the hard shell as a boat by floating on their backs.
c) They let their noses remain above water while rolling along under the water.
d) None of these answers is accurate.

Which animal has longer ears (often tipped in black), and longer legs than others in the order Lagomorpha?
a) Hares
b) Rabbits
c) Pikas
d) Platypuses

Which rodent is the largest one living on the earth?
a) A capybara.
b) A hare.
c) An anteater.
d) A platypus.

If a rodent has a chubby body, short legs, a large head, and short ears, it is a
a) cavy.
b) squirrel.
c) mouse.
d) hedgehog.

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