Ostrich: Animal Science Quest

Question 1 · multiple choice

A habitat sign describes the home of an Ostrich. Which description belongs on it?

open savanna, semi-desert, and dry grassland forests, mountains, tundra, and river valleys forests, grasslands, mangroves, and reed beds warm coral reefs with host sea anemones

Question 2 · multiple choice

What food choice best fits the teeth, bill, or feeding tools of an Ostrich?

caterpillars eat tree leaves while adults do not feed plants, seeds, fruit, insects, and small animals mainly fruit, with leaves, bark, insects, and other foods insects, grubs, worms, fruit, and small animals

Question 3 · multiple choice

Which daily routine is most typical for an Ostrich?

rests for most of the day and feeds largely at night basks by day and hunts in water active by day and often travels in cooler periods often hunts separately at night after schooling by day

Question 4 · multiple choice

Which action sequence best matches a moving Ostrich?

climbs with strong limbs, curved claws, and opposing digits swims with a powerful tail but moves awkwardly on land swims with a tall dorsal fin and wide sweeping turns runs with two-toed feet and long elastic strides

Question 5 · multiple choice

A close observation reveals one feature especially suited to an Ostrich. Which is it?

large eyes spot distant danger while bare legs release heat eyes move independently while a projectile tongue captures prey fused beak-like teeth crush shells and the stomach inflates with water different worker sizes cut leaves, defend trails, garden fungus, and remove waste

Question 6 · multiple choice

What is the best description of a young Ostrich's start in life?

the male carries fertilised eggs in a brood pouch and gives birth several females may lay eggs in one communal scrape guarded by dominant adults releases eggs and sperm into the water during synchronised spawning a calf develops for about twenty-two months before birth

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which social arrangement fits an Ostrich rather than the distractors?

mostly solitary except for mothers with young mostly solitary except during mating trains and care of the young forms loose groups and may mix with grazing mammals mostly solitary and gathers at some winter dens

Question 8 · multiple choice

Which cause-and-effect chain correctly starts with an Ostrich's normal behaviour?

caterpillars transfer tree energy to birds and other predators disperses seeds of many large forest fruits aerates soil and consumes many soil-dwelling insects disperses seeds and consumes varied dryland foods

Question 9 · multiple choice

A researcher keeps a safe distance because an Ostrich may do what when cornered?

sprints, changes direction rapidly, and kicks forward stands, huffs, bluff-charges, or fights when escape is not possible uses concealment first and powerful claws and jaws if forced to fight dives among stinging tentacles when threatened

Question 10 · true false

True or False: An ostrich swallows stones that help grind food inside the gizzard.

True False