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.

Why is a stranded cetacean in a highly life-threatening condition?

Because it cannot breathe

Because its body design was not conceived by Nature to fully cope with gravity out of the water

Because it cannot efficiently dissipate heat on land (overheating)

Because it quickly gets dehydrated and its skin is also sensitive to the ultraviolet radiations of the sun

2.

Is Orcinus orca a toothed or a toothless cetacean?

Toothless

Toothed

Orca is not a cetacean

None of the above

3.

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

4.

Porpoises have the following distinctive features:

Lack of beak

Lack of blowhole

Spade-shaped teeth

They belong to the Phocoenidae family

5.

Which of the following cetacean species do not have a dorsal fin?

Gray whale

Beluga

Minke whale

Southern Right whale

6.

Some tourists tell you they have seen a mother and calf Gray whale pair in Patagonia:

It could be, but only during the Southern Hemisphere winter

It is impossible, because the Gray whale only inhabits the West coast of South America

It is impossible, because the Gray whale only inhabits the Northern Hemisphere

It is very possible, since the Gray whale is the most sighted cetacean in Patagonia

7.

Where can Minke whales be observed?

In the Southern Hemisphere only

In both Northern and Southern Hemispheres

In the Northern Hemisphere only

It is sadly already extinct

8.

The Pilot whale has a higher than normal rate of:

Liver diseases

Twin births

Lactic acid formation when diving longer than 15 minutes

Stranding

9.

Which of the following assertions about the Orca are true?

It has the widest distribution of all cetaceans

It is the only cetacean known to kill other mammals

It is known to attack humans

It is a highly social animal

10.

Herman Melville's white whale in the novel Moby Dick was actually:

A Great White Shark

A Whale Shark

A Sperm whale

A Blue whale