Fun with Quizzes

Are you a Cetacean expert?

Instructions
To pass the test you must answer correctly at least 7 questions out of 10. For each question, one or more answers can be correct and you need to select all the correct options to score a point. Test evaluation is immediate and does not require you to provide any personal data.

1.

Which members of the Balaenopteridae family are known to prefer warm waters year round?

Blue whale

Minke whale

Bryde's whale

Fin whale

2.

Balaena mysticetus is the scientific name for:

Bowhead whale

Humpback whale

It is a synonym with Mysticeti

Great Misty whale

3.

What baleen whales are mostly seen in Peninsula Valdes (Argentina)?

Orcas, which hunt seal and sea lion pups right up the beach

Southern Right whales

Blue whales

None of the above

4.

The Whale Shark is a shark, not a whale. It follows that:

It is not a mammal

It is a fish

It is not an air breather

It does not suckle its young

5.

Which of the following species can be sometimes mistaken for Orcas by Whale Watchers?

Risso's dolphin

Gray whale

False killer whale

Beluga

6.

Cetaceans are mammals. It follows that:

They cannot be very streamlined

They lay eggs

They need to surface from time to time in order to breathe

They nourish their young with milk

7.

Which of the following assertions about Pilot whales are true?

There are two species, one called short-finned and the other long-finned

Two different species are known, both belonging to the genus Globicephala

Two different species are known, whose distributions rarely overlap

Two different species are known, whose distributions broadly overlap

8.

The so-called melon in Odontoceti plays a crucial role in:

Focusing the sounds used in echolocation

Excreting

Feeding

Mating

9.

Some river dolphins are:

Able to crawl for more than a mile on land

Almost completely blind

In great danger of extinction

Well adapted to feed on birds

10.

The Hector's dolphin is:

One of the smallest of all cetaceans

A dolphin that can only be found in New Zealand waters

A highly endangered species

A close relative of the Hector's beaked whale