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Quiz about Australian Animals For Kids
Quiz about Australian Animals For Kids

10 Questions: Australian Animals For Kids Photo Quiz | For Children


If you are lucky enough to live in or visit Australia, you are sure to see some amazing animals. This quiz asks you to identify just 10 of them.

A photo quiz by stedman. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
stedman
Time
3 mins
Type
Photo Quiz
Quiz #
404,096
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Very Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
729
Awards
Top 5% quiz!
Last 3 plays: Guest 71 (9/10), Buddy1 (9/10), reeshy (10/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Hop to it, and see if you can identify this large animal with strong hind legs, surely an Australian icon. What is it called? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. This picture should give you a big clue to the name of this Australian reptile, seen here showing off its most prominent feature. What is it called? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. This weird-looking creature, with a beak and a beaver-like tail, is another Australian icon. Is it a bird? Is it a fish? Neither of these - but what is it? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. This road sign is warning you to watch out for what sharp-toothed creature, particularly associated with Australia's island state? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What breed of wild Australian dog is shown here? It is believed to have arrived in Australia from Indonesia over 3500 years ago. Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. What is the name of this bird, known for its laughing call? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. This Australian marsupial lives in underground burrows which it digs with its strong claws and jaws. What is its name? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What is this spiny creature, found only in Australia and New Guinea? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Can you name this large, flightless Australian bird, also famous as the subject of a puppet used by the comedian Rod Hull? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. This cuddly, tree-living marsupial, which loves to eat eucalyptus leaves, is probably one of Australia's best-known creatures. What is it called? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Hop to it, and see if you can identify this large animal with strong hind legs, surely an Australian icon. What is it called?

Answer: Kangaroo

The kangaroo is a marsupial, meaning the females have a pouch in which they carry their young until they are big enough to look after themselves.

Fun fact: some scientists have suggested that the Red Kangaroo actually has five legs - because it uses its tail to push itself forward while hopping along the ground. That makes it technically a "leg"!
2. This picture should give you a big clue to the name of this Australian reptile, seen here showing off its most prominent feature. What is it called?

Answer: Frill-necked Lizard

This picture shows clearly how the frill-necked lizard got its name. It has a large flap of skin around its neck, which is usually folded up against its body. However, if it is frightened, it spreads out its frill and opens its mouth wide, in a display that is intended to frighten off predators.

Fun fact: a cartoon frill-necked lizard named Lizzie was the official mascot of the 2000 Summer Paralympic Games, which were held in Sydney, Australia.
3. This weird-looking creature, with a beak and a beaver-like tail, is another Australian icon. Is it a bird? Is it a fish? Neither of these - but what is it?

Answer: Platypus

The odd-looking platypus is sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, because of its long, flat snout. It lives partially in water and is one of the few mammals that lays eggs instead of giving birth to live young.

Fun fact: when scientists in Europe first saw a dead platypus, in 1799, they refused to believe it was real animal, and thought it had been stitched together from other animals as a joke.
4. This road sign is warning you to watch out for what sharp-toothed creature, particularly associated with Australia's island state?

Answer: Tasmanian Devil

The Tasmanian Devil is native to the Australian state of Tasmania, an island located about 150 miles south of the mainland. It is the largest carnivorous marsupial and has extremely powerful jaws that deliver a serious bite - so please don't try and stroke one.

Fun fact: the Warner Brothers cartoon Tasmanian Devil, known as "Taz", first appeared in a Bugs Bunny cartoon in 1954.
5. What breed of wild Australian dog is shown here? It is believed to have arrived in Australia from Indonesia over 3500 years ago.

Answer: Dingo

The dingo is a breed of wild dog that is found across much of the Australian mainland, although pure-bred dingoes are most common in the north. Its diet consists mainly of mammals and birds. It is genetically related to an Indonesian breed known as the New Guinea Singing Dog, to which it still looks very similar.

Fun fact: in the 1880s, Australian farmers built a 3,500-mile-long Dingo Fence designed to keep the animals out of the south-eastern part of the country, especially the areas of Queensland with large number of sheep farms.
6. What is the name of this bird, known for its laughing call?

Answer: Kookaburra

The kookaburra is a native Australian breed of kingfisher. Its name is derived from the sound of its distinctive call. Interestingly, unlike most kingfishers, its diet consists largely of small rodents, reptiles and insects, rather than fish.

Fun fact: the well-known children's song which starts "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree" was written in 1932 by an Australian music teacher named Marion Sinclair. Two years later, it won a competition run by the Girl Guides Association of Victoria and has since become popular with Girl Guide troops around the world.
7. This Australian marsupial lives in underground burrows which it digs with its strong claws and jaws. What is its name?

Answer: Wombat

Wombats are chunky, plant-eating mammals, which can grow up to three feet in length. Like all marsupials, wombats have pouches in which they carry their young. Wombat pouches are unusual because they face backwards, so they don't get full of soil when the wombat is digging its burrows.

Fun fact: wombat poo is cube-shaped.
8. What is this spiny creature, found only in Australia and New Guinea?

Answer: Echidna

The echidna may look like a hedgehog or a porcupine, but it in fact more closely related to the platypus. Like the platypus, it is an egg-laying mammal. It is also known as a "spiny anteater", because its diet consists mainly of termites and ants.

Fun fact: baby echidnas are called puggles.
9. Can you name this large, flightless Australian bird, also famous as the subject of a puppet used by the comedian Rod Hull?

Answer: Emu

A full-grown emu can be around six feet in height, making it the second-tallest bird in the world, after the ostrich. Its long legs mean that it can run at up to 30 miles per hour They are a relatively common bird and are found throughout Australia.

Rod Hull (1935-99) was an English comedian who first came up with his emu puppet while working on Australian television in the 1950s and 60s. It was essentially a large glove puppet, with Hull's arm inserted into the neck and head, while a false arm cradled the body. It was famous for creating havoc wherever it went.

Fun fact: the emu is featured prominently on the Australian coat of arms, along with the kangaroo.
10. This cuddly, tree-living marsupial, which loves to eat eucalyptus leaves, is probably one of Australia's best-known creatures. What is it called?

Answer: Koala

The koala is one of the most famous and easily recognised Australian animals. It spends most of its life in trees and eats almost nothing except the leaves of eucalyptus trees. Like many Australian mammals, the koala is a marsupial. Young koalas are known as joeys, just like kangaroos.

Fun fact: Because eucalyptus leaves are not very nourishing, koalas are not very active and sleep for around 20 hours a day.
Source: Author stedman

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