A snail travels over rough ground using a muscular foot and…
Feathers
Pollen
Mucus
Dry sand
Trivia for Kids 8–14 · Mixed
Small Creatures, Big Tricks
Ten fresh questions for ages 8–14 exploring small creatures, big tricks. Mixed difficulty with explanations and host verification notes in the import file.
A sea star's tube feet help with…
Feather maintenance
Movement and gripping
Making flower nectar
Chewing tree bark
An octopus squeezes through small spaces partly because it lacks…
Any nervous tissue
A digestive system
A rigid bony skeleton
Living muscle
A crab's hard outer covering mainly acts as…
A gas-filled lung
An external skeleton
A photosynthetic leaf
A permanent egg
A squid shoots water backwards to move forwards. This uses…
Wing flapping
Jet propulsion
Root pressure
Magnetic levitation
True or false: Jellyfish have a central brain like a human's.
True
False
Which connects earthworms and leeches in body form?
Jointed insect legs
Hard bird beaks
Feathered tails
Segmented bodies
A cuttlefish changes its visible pattern rapidly using specialised…
Skin structures
Bone joints
External leaves
Shell hinges
A sponge feeds by moving water through its body and…
Chewing coral
Photosynthesising with roots
Biting fish with teeth
Filtering tiny food particles
Why is a nautilus different from an adult octopus?
It retains an external chambered shell
It is a flowering plant
It lacks any soft tissue
It has feathered wings