Animal Kingdom Jeopardy

This large wild cat lives in family groups called prides and is sometimes called the king of the jungle, despite living mainly in grasslands.

What is a lion?

This nocturnal mammal is the only one capable of true flight, using wings made of thin skin stretched between its fingers.

What is a bat?

This mammal lays eggs instead of giving birth to live young, one of only a few mammals to do so.

What is a platypus?

This large marsupial from Australia carries its young in a pouch and can hop at high speeds using its powerful hind legs.

What is a kangaroo?

This black and white bear from China eats mostly bamboo and is a well-known symbol of wildlife conservation.

What is a panda?

This flightless black and white bird from Antarctica waddles on land but swims gracefully underwater.

What is a penguin?

This large bird of prey is the national bird and symbol of the United States.

What is the bald eagle?

This colorful bird can be trained to imitate human speech and is a popular pet.

What is a parrot?

This tiny bird can hover in place and fly backwards by flapping its wings extremely fast.

What is a hummingbird?

This large, flightless African bird is the largest bird alive today and can run faster than 40 miles per hour.

What is an ostrich?

This cold-blooded reptile has a hard shell that protects its soft body, and it can pull its head inside for safety.

What is a turtle?

This legless reptile moves by slithering and uses a forked tongue to smell the air around it.

What is a snake?

This amphibian starts life in water breathing through gills as a tadpole, then grows lungs and legs to live on land.

What is a frog?

This large reptile has powerful jaws and lives in rivers and swamps, and is closely related to alligators.

What is a crocodile?

This lizard can change the color of its skin to blend in with its surroundings or show its mood.

What is a chameleon?

This playful sea mammal uses echolocation, a kind of natural sonar, to find fish and navigate murky water.

What is a dolphin?

This eight-armed sea creature can squeeze through tiny spaces and squirts ink to escape predators.

What is an octopus?

This spiny-skinned sea creature can regrow a lost arm and typically has five arms shaped like a star.

What is a starfish?

This large fish is a top ocean predator with rows of sharp teeth and can smell a tiny amount of blood in the water from a long distance.

What is a shark?

This colorful underwater structure is actually built over thousands of years by the skeletons of tiny living animals.

What is a coral reef?

This flying insect produces honey and lives together with thousands of others in a hive.

What is a bee?

This insect goes through a dramatic transformation, changing from a caterpillar into a colorful, winged adult.

What is a butterfly?

This insect can lift many times its own body weight and lives in organized colonies that build underground tunnels.

What is an ant?

This insect makes its chirping sound by rubbing its wings together, and it often chirps faster as the temperature rises.

What is a cricket?

This is the stage of complete metamorphosis, often spent inside a hard casing or cocoon, during which an insect transforms from larva into adult.

What is a pupa?

This animal, found in Africa, is the tallest living land animal thanks to its extremely long neck.

What is a giraffe?

This African cat is the fastest land animal, capable of short bursts over 60 miles per hour while chasing prey.

What is a cheetah?

Weighing as much as seven tons, this gray mammal with a long trunk is the largest land animal alive today.

What is an elephant?

Diving toward prey at speeds over 200 miles per hour, this bird of prey is the fastest animal on Earth.

What is a peregrine falcon?

This tireless seabird makes the longest migration of any animal, flying from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back every year.

What is an Arctic tern?