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title: The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and ta… — how Mova does on the tests · Biology
description: Lesson 180 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 11 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions

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**Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 12 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 180 of the biology course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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«3 blue-footed boobies dancing on a rock, how many blue feet»

- **1.** 12 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 9 — no support
- **3.** 3 — no support
- **4.** 6 — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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«2 giant tortoises and a sea lion, how many legs and flippers altogether»

- **1.** 12 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** 8 — no support
- **3.** 14 — no support
- **4.** 10 — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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In the film Madagascar, penguins live in a city zoo. Where do penguins live wild north of the equator?

- **1.** In the Sahara — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** In New York — score 6
- **3.** At the North Pole, on the ice — score 6
- **4.** Only on the Galápagos — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 129, line 3: «Wild penguins live only in the southern half of the world, mostly around Antarctica but also on warm beaches in South Africa, and one kind lives right on the e…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+4); the same doer «wild penguins» (+1); the same property (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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«penguins only live in the ice, that's literally the rule» What is right?

- **1.** Right, they all live on ice — score 3
- **2.** Galápagos penguins live on the equator, cooled by cold currents — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** Penguins live only in zoos — score 2
- **4.** Penguins live only in jungles — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 129, line 3: «Wild penguins live only in the southern half of the world, mostly around Antarctica but also on warm beaches in South Africa, and one kind lives right on the e…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+4); the same place «equator» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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What would happen to the tortoises if goats came back to an island?

- **1.** The goats would eat their plants and the tortoises would go hungry — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** The tortoises would ride the goats — no support
- **3.** Nothing at all — no support
- **4.** The tortoises would eat the goats and grow much bigger and stronger — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 180, line 16: «Goats brought by people ate the plants tortoises needed; when people removed goats from many islands, plants and tortoises began to come back.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+4); the same doer «goats» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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«Darwin saw a finch turn into another bird overnight» What is right?

- **1.** Darwin never saw any finches — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **2.** Right, it took one night — no support
- **3.** Finches never change at all — no support
- **4.** Changes happen over many generations, though beaks can shift within a few years — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 180, line 14: «Darwin visited the Galápagos on the Beagle in 1835, and the differences between islands helped him explain evolution in his book of 1859.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «visit» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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«sea lion on the bench, go on, give him a cuddle» What should you do?

- **1.** Sit on him — no support
- **2.** Throw him a sandwich and take a quick selfie — score 2
- **3.** Hug him gently — no support
- **4.** Stay two metres away and leave him alone — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 124, line 5: «But there is no elephant graveyard, and lions are not kings of a happy kingdom: about 20,000 to 25,000 wild lions are left, fewer than half of cubs live to two…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «leave» (+3); the same thing acted on «20,000 wild lions» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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A cartoon lizard swims under the sea and eats fish. What does the real marine iguana eat?

- **1.** Crabs only — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Seaweed — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Fish — score 5
- **4.** Sand — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 178, line 10: «The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh is the biggest mangrove forest in the world, and its Bengal tigers swim between islands and eat fish, crabs and deer.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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«those birds have tiny wings, they must be babies» What is more likely on the Galápagos?

- **1.** Bats — no support
- **2.** Penguins in disguise — no support
- **3.** Babies that will grow huge wings — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** They are flightless cormorants, whose wings shrank over generations — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 48, line 16: «Grasshoppers have no caterpillar or pupa stage: wingless young called nymphs moult several times and grow wings at the last moult, which is called incomplete m…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «wings» (+3); the same action «grow» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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In a hard year with little food, how can a marine iguana survive?

- **1.** It eats rocks — no support
- **2.** It grows extra legs — no support
- **3.** It can shrink its body, even its bones — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **4.** It flies off to another island where there is food — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 180, line 7: «The marine iguana is the only lizard that swims and feeds in the sea; it dives for seaweed, sneezes out extra salt, and can shrink its body, even its bones, in…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «shrink» (+4); the same thing acted on «body» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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«a red crab just jumped onto an iguana's back, is it attacking»

- **1.** It is trying to fly with the iguana — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** It wants to eat the iguana — score 2
- **3.** It is probably picking off ticks — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** It is lost — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 180, line 17: «Sally Lightfoot crabs are bright red crabs that leap from rock to rock, eat algae and pick ticks off marine iguanas.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «bright red crabs» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Identify the characteristic which distinguishes the marine iguana from all other lizards.

- **1.** It alone consumes fish exclusively — no support
- **2.** It alone is capable of flight — no support
- **3.** It alone swims in the sea and feeds there upon seaweed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** It alone inhabits polar ice — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 180, line 2: «So you find a lizard that swims in the sea and eats seaweed, a cormorant that cannot fly, penguins on the equator and tortoises whose shells are shaped to stre…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «sea» (+3); the same action «swim» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the variation in the beaks of Darwin's finches?

- **1.** Each bird alters its beak at will — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** All finches possess identical beaks — score 3
- **3.** The beaks were modified by sailors — no support
- **4.** Beaks are adapted to different foods, through the survival of the best-suited birds over generations — **✓ the right answer** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 35, line 17: «The kiwi of New Zealand is a flightless bird that comes out at night and finds worms by smell with nostrils at the tip of its long beak, which no other bird ha…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «other bird» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Ascertain the reason for which the Galápagos penguin is able to inhabit equatorial waters.

- **1.** It resides solely in shaded caves — no support
- **2.** Cold ocean currents supply cool water abundant in fish — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** It subsists without food — score 2
- **4.** The islands are permanently covered in thick ice and snow — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 170, line 7: «Leopard seals are big hunters with powerful jaws and long teeth that catch penguins, and they also eat krill by sieving water through their teeth.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «water» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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State the year in which Charles Darwin visited the Galápagos Islands and the vessel upon which he travelled.

- **1.** 1492, aboard the Santa María — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 1835, aboard the Beagle — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** 1901, aboard the Discovery — no support
- **4.** 1859, aboard the Endeavour — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/e4/)

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