Think Like a Emperor penguin

Question 1 · multiple choice

Where would the tracks of a wild Emperor penguin most reasonably be found?

open woodland and savanna with scattered tall trees streams, ponds, wetlands, and forested waterways dry woodland, shrub, and cultivated areas with trees Antarctic sea ice and surrounding ocean

Question 2 · multiple choice

Which feeding clue would most strongly suggest that an Emperor penguin had visited?

fish, squid, and krill caught underwater algae, carrion, detritus, and small animals insects, spiders, and small vertebrates roots, berries, insects, fish, carrion, and mammals

Question 3 · multiple choice

If people want to avoid disturbing an Emperor penguin, which activity pattern should they understand?

travels and feeds by day, building a fresh sleeping nest each evening forages by day or night depending on light and prey rests many hours and moves at any time in short bouts warms in sun before and after cold-water feeding dives

Question 4 · multiple choice

[Image needed: a clear, unlabeled side-view photograph of an Emperor penguin moving naturally in its wild habitat, with its whole body visible and no captions.] How does an Emperor penguin normally move when feeding or travelling?

knuckle-walks on the ground and climbs carefully when needed hangs and climbs slowly with long curved claws flies through water with flipper-like wings and toboggans over ice swims by waving its flattened tail while legs trail backward

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which explanation correctly links an Emperor penguin's body design to what it does?

a backward-opening pouch keeps soil away from the joey during digging pressure sensors around the jaws detect tiny ripples made by prey special electric organs produce weak sensing pulses and powerful hunting shocks dense feathers, fat, and huddling reduce heat loss

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which observation would fit an Emperor penguin raising or producing young?

the male balances one egg on his feet beneath a brood pouch lays paired hard-shelled eggs attached to a protected surface usually gives birth to one well-developed pup after internal development queens lay enormous numbers of eggs tended by workers

Question 7 · multiple choice

A camera records several Emperor penguins. Which group behaviour would be believable?

mostly solitary but tolerates others on the same plant colonies huddle and rotate positions during severe winter weather adults are largely solitary and communicate with scent marks lives in social groups with a dominant male and several females

Question 8 · multiple choice

How does an Emperor penguin contribute to the wider community of living things?

cleans carrion and recycles organic material controls forest-floor invertebrates and feeds larger predators transfers ocean nutrients to sea ice colonies and feeds predators spreads seeds, turns soil, and moves salmon nutrients inland

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which defence description belongs in a safety guide about an Emperor penguin?

delivers powerful kicks when threatened by large predators slaps the water with its tail to warn the colony changes colour, flattens the body, hisses, and bites groups together and dives away rather than fighting large predators

Question 10 · true false

True or False: An emperor penguin can circle ocean basins while spending years mostly away from land.

True False