Nature Trivia Questions: Questions About Slugs, Ostriches, Thunder, New Zealand, Cumulonimbus clouds, Bee Hives and More!

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Free nature trivia questions and answers about nature, ostriches, thunder, clouds, bees, fish scales, New Zealand, and more.

Fun trivia questions and answers - Nature.

What earthly creature has four "noses" and 3,000 tiny teeth?
A: The slug.

A beehive produces between 100 and 200 pounds of honey a year. How much does a single worker honeybee manufacture in its lifetime?
A: 1/12 teaspoon.

How long does it take a whole fingernail to replace itself?
A: About three months. Our nails grow about .1mm (.004) inch) per day.

What is on the daily menu for an adult hippopotamus at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.?
A: About 10 pounds of kale, 3 gallons high -protein cereal pellets and 1/4 bale of alfalfa hay.

How many toes does an ostrich have?
A: Four, two on each of its feet.

How many eggs at a time do the most productive starfish release?
A: Up to 2.5 million.

How fast does the sound of thunder travel per second?
A: About 1,100 feet.

What creature produces sperm that are 2/3 inch long- the longest in the world?
A: Some fruit flies of the genus Drosophila. Their sperm, more than 300 times longer than human sperm, are six times longer than the fly itself--but hair-thin and all balled up.

How can you tell a fish's age?
A: From the number of growth rings on each of its scales. Each pair of rings represents a year--the dark narrow rings represents winter; the wider, lighter rings represents summer.

What animal's skin is the source of true Moroccan leather?
A: The goat.

What mammal is the only living member of its order?
A: The aardvark. Its order is Tubulidentata.

What two types of dogs were crossed to create the whippet?
A: The greyhound and the terrier.

What is the only land mammal native to New Zealand?
A: The bat.

How fast can a sailfish swim--in miles per hour?
A: More than 60 mph, faster than any other known fish. Humans have been recorded swimming up to 5.19 mph.

In the world of horses, what's a palomilla?
A: A milk-white horse with white mane an tail.

What are the only two types of mammals that are poisonous?
A: Shrews and platypuses. Some shrews have slightly poisonous bites, and male platypuses have poisonous spurs on their hind legs.

How many seeds from the giant sequoia tree-the most massive of all living things--are ther in an ounce?
A: 8,000. The seeds re 1/4 inch long. The largest giant sequoia in existence, the General Sherma, is in California's Sequoia National Park.

How many mosquito-size insects is the one-ounce brown bat--the most common bat in North America--capable of eating in an hour of nighttime dining?
A: About 500.

What from of precipitation generally falls only from cumulonimbus clouds?
A: Hail. Cumulonimbus clouds are heavy, selling, vertically developed clouds.

How wide an angle is the average person's field of vision?
A: About 200 degrees.

In what country did the French Poodle originate?
A: In Germany, where it was known as the pudel, from a word meaning "to splash in the water." In France, it's known as the caniche, which is derived from "duck dog." Its Latin name is canis familiaris aquatius.

 

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