How the Emperor scorpion Lives

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which documentary location is most likely to feature a wild Emperor scorpion?

tropical forest edges, grassland, farms, gardens, and towns humid West African forest floor and burrows rock pools, rocky coasts, and shallow seabeds forests, mountains, tundra, and river valleys

Question 2 · multiple choice

Which natural buffet would be most useful to an Emperor scorpion?

mostly medium-sized birds captured in flight marine algae scraped from rocks insects, spiders, and small vertebrates crabs, shrimp, fish, and molluscs

Question 3 · multiple choice

A researcher checks an Emperor scorpion's movement log. Which pattern is most believable?

often feeds when currents concentrate plankton workers remain active around the clock inside protected tunnels often hunts in daylight when larger predators are less active active mainly at night

Question 4 · multiple choice

A footprint-and-motion survey follows an Emperor scorpion. Which result is most likely?

walks on eight legs and probes with sensory combs beneath the body flies through water with broad triangular fins walks through covered galleries between food and nest accelerates rapidly in a short chase using a flexible spine

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which adaptation would be most useful to an Emperor scorpion in its normal environment?

a flexible body and feeding tentacles process large amounts of sediment large pincers seize prey while sensory hairs detect air and ground vibrations a long prehensile tongue helps strip leaves from thorny branches ever-growing orange incisors contain iron-rich enamel for cutting wood

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which reproductive strategy is used by an Emperor scorpion?

larvae develop in the sea before young crabs move onto land pups are born in a den and cared for by several pack members gives birth to live young that ride on the mother’s back a single calf can stand and walk soon after birth

Question 7 · multiple choice

What would a behavioural scientist most likely report about an Emperor scorpion?

mostly territorial, though groups gather where food is abundant usually solitary, sometimes concentrating in shrinking pools mostly solitary and territorial around feeding sites mostly solitary but may tolerate others in roomy shelters

Question 8 · multiple choice

Why might conservationists monitor an Emperor scorpion as part of a whole ecosystem?

controls forest-floor invertebrates and feeds larger predators regulates populations of flying birds in natural and urban habitats grazes algae and moves marine nutrients onto land controls small crustaceans and fish in coastal food webs

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which reaction would be natural for a threatened Emperor scorpion?

inflates its body and releases toxin when seized uses pincers first and a relatively mild sting if necessary withdraws into the shell and blocks the entrance with a claw stands, huffs, bluff-charges, or fights when escape is not possible

Question 10 · true false

True or False: An emperor scorpion is the largest land-living arthropod by mass.

True False