83042 Easy Trivia Questions
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What practice involves removing a shark's fins and discarding the body at sea?
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Shark finning
What common name is given to the egg cases of many oviparous sharks and rays?
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Mermaid's purse
Which shark is the second-largest living fish after the whale shark?
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Basking shark
Alpine marmot hibernation can start as early as which month?
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October
Which disease is a major threat to little brown bats during hibernation?
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white-nose syndrome
What heat-producing tissue is especially associated with newborn and hibernating mammals?
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Brown adipose tissue
Which bear is now described on Wikipedia as a highly efficient hibernator?
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American black bear
Which type of hibernator hibernates only when cold-stressed, food-deprived, or both?
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Facultative hibernator
Which type of hibernator enters hibernation annually regardless of food or temperature?
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Obligate hibernator
Which egg-laying mammal enters hibernation during the Australian winter?
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Short-beaked echidna
Hoary marmots hibernate for about how many months each year?
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seven to eight
Olympic marmots begin entering hibernation in which month?
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September
Which marmot is native to Washington state's Olympic Mountains and hibernates deeply?
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Olympic marmot
Which European marmot can spend up to nine months per year in hibernation?
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Alpine marmot
For up to how many months can the fat-tailed dwarf lemur hibernate?
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seven months
What plant family contains the carnivorous bromeliad Brocchinia reducta?
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Bromeliaceae
Which Nepenthes species is the only one native to India?
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Nepenthes khasiana
Which aquatic bladderwort is commonly called greater bladderwort?
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Utricularia vulgaris
Which sundew species is commonly called the round-leaved sundew?
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Drosera rotundifolia
Which Sarracenia species is known as the white pitcherplant?
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Sarracenia leucophylla
Which Sarracenia species is known as the yellow pitcher plant?
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Sarracenia flava
What is the common name of Pinguicula vulgaris?
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Common butterwort
What basic trap type is used by pitcher plants?
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Pitfall trap
Carnivorous plants are found on every continent except which one?
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Antarctica
Who wrote the 1875 book Insectivorous Plants?
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Charles Darwin
Which Bornean pitcher plant is commonly called Low's pitcher plant?
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Nepenthes lowii
On which continent does Cephalotus follicularis grow wild?
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Australia
What is the sole species in the genus Darlingtonia?
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Darlingtonia californica
What is the common name of Drosera capensis?
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Cape sundew
Which genus of tropical pitcher plants is often called monkey cups?
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Nepenthes
Which plant family contains both sundews and the Venus flytrap?
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Droseraceae
What animal group includes octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish?
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Cephalopods
What term describes learning that a behavior has consequences, such as rewards?
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Operant conditioning
What type of conditioning pairs a neutral stimulus with a reflex response?
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Classical conditioning
What field studies learning, memory, and problem-solving in non-human animals?
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Animal cognition