| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| What is the name for an animal that eats other animals? | Carnivore | 93%
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| What is the name for an animal that doesn't have a backbone? | Invertebrate | 82%
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| What type of blood vessels carry blood away from the heart? | Arteries | 74%
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| The name of what type of animal means 'Both ways of life'? (Hint: they can live in both on land and in water). | Amphibian | 72%
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| Many animals produce poison, but what is the name for poison that an animal specifically injects into another through biting or stinging? | Venom | 62%
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| What is the word for when one species benefits at the expense of another species, without killing it? | Parasitism | 57%
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| What is the name for an organism that is both male and female? | Hermaphrodite | 50%
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| Not all microorganisms are bad, some are even beneficial, but what is the name for a microbe that specifically causes disease? | Pathogen | 46%
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| 'Erythrocyte' is the proper word for what? | Red blood cell | 42%
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| What is the opposite of 'ventral'? | Dorsal | 35%
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| What is the word for an organism that can produce its own energy (such as from light or chemicals)? | Autotroph | 32%
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| What is the name of an animal that does not cause disease itself but transmits disease causing microbes? | Vector | 31%
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| What is the word for an organism that has to obtain its energy from elsewhere? | Heterotroph | 28%
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| What word describes an organism that prefer high temperatures? | Thermophile | 25%
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| What type of mollusc are slugs and snails? (Hint: the name literally means 'Stomach foot'). | Gastropod | 18%
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| What word describes animals that lay eggs? | Oviparous | 15%
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| What word describes animals that give birth to live young? | Viviparous | 14%
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| What word describes organisms that live on dead or decomposed matter? | Saprophytic | 9%
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| What are the wing-like lobes on the end of a whale's tail called? | Flukes | 8%
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| What word is used to describe a species where male and female are separate? | Diecious | 3%
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