Veiled chameleon: Built to Survive

Question 1 · multiple choice

A camera trap is being set for a Veiled chameleon. Which habitat description gives it the best chance of success?

dry woodland, shrub, and cultivated areas with trees streams, ponds, wetlands, and forested waterways Antarctic sea ice and surrounding ocean coral reefs, lagoons, seagrass beds, and rocky shallows

Question 2 · multiple choice

A Veiled chameleon follows its usual feeding pattern. Which food combination should it seek?

insects, spiders, and small vertebrates mainly insects, with some leaves and flowers roots, berries, insects, fish, carrion, and mammals deer, wild pigs, and other medium to large prey

Question 3 · multiple choice

When should a documentary crew expect the most natural activity from a Veiled chameleon?

rests many hours and moves at any time in short bouts hunts by day, often when flying prey is active active by day often hunts at dawn, dusk, or night

Question 4 · multiple choice

Which set of movements belongs to a Veiled chameleon?

hangs and climbs slowly with long curved claws dives in a high-speed stoop and strikes or grabs prey uses fin ripples for slow travel and jet propulsion for escape climbs slowly with gripping feet and a coiling tail

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which body feature gives a Veiled chameleon a practical survival advantage?

eyes move independently while a projectile tongue captures prey a streamlined bill and eye adjustments help judge prey through refracting water special electric organs produce weak sensing pulses and powerful hunting shocks spined raptorial legs snap forward to seize prey

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which family-life detail is accurate for a Veiled chameleon?

usually gives birth to one well-developed pup after internal development females bury eggs in soil after mating queens lay enormous numbers of eggs tended by workers cubs remain with their mother while learning to hunt

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which social clue belongs to a Veiled chameleon?

adults are largely solitary and communicate with scent marks lives in social groups with a dominant male and several females mostly solitary and communicates with colour and posture breeds in colonies with many nests on one tree

Question 8 · multiple choice

Which food-web connection correctly involves a Veiled chameleon?

controls forest-floor invertebrates and feeds larger predators spreads seeds, turns soil, and moves salmon nutrients inland acts as a top predator that influences prey numbers and movement controls insects and serves as prey for birds and snakes

Question 9 · multiple choice

A Veiled chameleon cannot simply disappear. Which combination helps it avoid or survive danger?

changes colour, flattens the body, hisses, and bites slaps the water with its tail to warn the colony groups together and dives away rather than fighting large predators inflates into a difficult-to-swallow shape and may contain tetrodotoxin

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A veiled chameleon colour change communicates mood and controls temperature more often than matching any background perfectly.

True False