Sacred scarab: Animal Science Quest

Question 1 · multiple choice

A habitat sign describes the home of a Sacred scarab. Which description belongs on it?

dry grassland, scrub, and sandy areas with grazing mammals dry forest, savanna, and coastal scrub on Indonesian islands warm open ocean, coastal upwellings, and seasonal feeding areas savannas, grasslands, and open woodland

Question 2 · multiple choice

What food choice best fits the teeth, bill, or feeding tools of a Sacred scarab?

grasses, shrubs, hay, and other fibrous plants animal dung rolled or buried for food adults mainly graze seagrasses and algae insects, spiders, crustaceans, and small fish

Question 3 · multiple choice

Which daily routine is most typical for a Sacred scarab?

often active in dim light and at night drifts and pulses continuously without a day schedule often works during cooler daylight or evening periods hunts by day using vision

Question 4 · multiple choice

Which action sequence best matches a moving Sacred scarab?

walks along the bottom and swims with tail waves contracts its bell to move slowly through water walks, stalks, and leaps using hydraulic pressure in the legs walks backward while rolling a dung ball with hind legs

Question 5 · multiple choice

A close observation reveals one feature especially suited to a Sacred scarab. Which is it?

uses the sun, moon, and polarised sky light to travel in a straight line skin cells change colour and texture while flexible bodies squeeze through gaps uses tools such as sticks for termite fishing and stones for cracking nuts a narrow snout and tongue reaching rapidly into nests collect insects

Question 6 · multiple choice

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

pups are born in a protected underground chamber a female provisions an underground brood ball for one developing larva the female lays eggs and feeds hatchlings with milk released onto skin chicks grow inside a tree cavity excavated by adults

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which social arrangement fits a Sacred scarab rather than the distractors?

pairs defend broad territories and may hunt separately mostly solitary but can share favourable cave shelters mostly works alone or in temporary pairs around dung mostly solitary and strongly territorial around burrows

Question 8 · multiple choice

Which cause-and-effect chain correctly starts with a Sacred scarab's normal behaviour?

grazes with less soil damage than hard-hoofed livestock grazing keeps seagrass beds productive and nutrient-rich moves insect energy from land into aquatic food webs recycles nutrients, disperses seeds, and reduces parasites around droppings

Question 9 · multiple choice

A researcher keeps a safe distance because a Sacred scarab may do what when cornered?

buries food quickly and uses strong legs in contests uses camouflage, a muscular tail, claws, teeth, and venom relies on enormous size and a thick spotted skin clan members mob threats and defend food together

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A sacred scarab can orient using the bright band of the Milky Way on moonless nights.

True False