May We Take Your Order? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mammalia

The Artiodactyla order refers to the mammals who are regarded as even-toed ungulates. In other words, creatures in this grouping walk on two toes (even if they have more) though this will emerge in nature in the form of a hoof. Animals included in this order include pigs, giraffes, deer, camels, and llamas. Most land animals in this order tend to be herbivores save for a couple of notable exceptions (swine, for instance).

Answer: Mammalia

Zooming out a bit, the superorder Xenarthra encompasses tree sloths and anteaters. Amongst this company is the order Cingulata, which includes all types of armadillos. Cingulata are armor-plated mammals and the vast majority of them stretch through South America (with a couple of exceptions like the nine-banded armadillo).

Answer: Mammalia

Cetacea is quite intricately linked to Artiodactyla, mentioned earlier, as they're technically an infraorder of the latter. Coming from the Latin for 'whale' (cetus), this order includes several dozen whales and porpoises (including dolphins).

Artiodactyla, the order of even-toed ungulates, encompasses everything that falls into the Cetacea though they differ for the obvious reasons (land mammals vs. aquatic mammals) and a few not-so-obvious (as nearly all aquatic creatures in the order are carnivores).

Answer: Mammalia

The order Chiroptera encompasses all species of bats, mammals that can be found on nearly every continent in the world. Interestingly, bats are the only mammals that can continuously fly. This being said, they are not classified as under the Aves class due to their physiology, even if they may share a number of similarities. One in every five mammals is a bat or in the same order as bats (like flying foxes).

Answer: Reptilia

Testudines are the dozens upon dozens of turtles and tortoises of the world, making up an order of creatures that are characterized by their unique shells made, mostly, of bone and built to withstand harsh environments, protecting the creature within.

Although all animals in this order breathe air, their bodies also allow them to store air quite efficiently, so many of these creatures can spend quite a bit of time underwater for extended periods. As they are reptiles, they are cold-blooded.

Answer: Reptilia

The order comprised of all scaled reptiles, the grouping known as Squamata contains thousands upon thousands of species ranging from snakes to lizards and they can be found in virtually any non-polar region in some form. The scaliness of these creatures can vary with some being smooth-scaled, like a typical garter snake, or some being horned, like the thorny devil. Nonetheless, these creatures are prone to moulting their skin over time.

Many of the creatures of this order can also be venomous, a distinct capability that's believed to have evolved from hundreds of millions of years of biological development.

Answer: Reptilia

It might come as no surprise that the Crocodylia order is one that's associated with reptiles because of the obvious link to the word 'croocdile' though that name might be selling the grouping short since it also contains alligators, caimans, and similar creatures (and there are differences between all of them).

These are amongst some of the largest reptiles in the world and are generally only found in tropical and equatorial areas. Interestingly, they share close relations with creatures in the Aves class-- birds, that is-- as they date back to a common ancestor during the age of the dinosaurs.

Answer: Aves

This order of birdlife includes diving birds of many sorts, though mostly they would be loons found in the Northern Hemisphere (across North America and Eurasia). Though, at one time, loons were classified under the order Colymbiformes, better understanding of these species has not only allowed scientists to better understand the diversity of these diving birds, but their history; they're amongst the oldest surviving bird species along with wading birds in the Anseriformes order (ducks, geese, swans) dating back hundreds of millions of years.

Answer: Aves

Passerine birds (falling into the Passeriformes order) are the most plentiful of the bird groupings, accounting for more than half of the planet's birdlife by population and thousands of species. The Latin word 'passer', from which this order name is based, translates to 'sparrow', which should give a good indication of the size of the bird being discussed.

Birds included in this order split into further families depending on their unique evolutionary lineages. Passeri, for instance, are all of the world's songbirds while Tyranni, normally found in South America, have a different structure to their windpipes.

Answer: Aves

This order is perhaps one of the most narrow of the Aves class since it consists solely of birds regarded as ostriches. Though today this would only involve wild ostriches in Africa (and any captive elsewhere), it's also contained flightless birds that are now extinct, regarded as part of the same family of long-necked creatures.

In the past, these have been amongst the largest birds ever seen on Earth.