--- title: Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors an… — how Mova does on the tests · Biology description: Lesson 183 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 11 tests right, exam 3 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/) / 183 # Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders **Tests:** 3 of 11 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 10 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 183 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/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/). 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/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/). ### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1} In Kung Fu Panda, Tai Lung the snow leopard roars like a lion. What is wrong with that? - **1.** Nothing; snow leopards roar louder than lions — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** Snow leopards have no voice at all — no support - **3.** Snow leopards only meow like house cats — no support - **4.** Real snow leopards cannot roar; they hiss, growl and puff — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 81, line 7: «A lion's roar can be heard up to about 8 kilometres away; only the lion, tiger, leopard and jaguar can truly roar.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «roar» (+2). Against it: the same doer «lion» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/t1/) ### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2} In Kung Fu Panda, Master Shifu is a red panda and Po is a giant panda. «so shifu is po's little cousin innit» What is right? - **1.** Yes, a red panda is a young giant panda — no support - **2.** No, red pandas eat only meat — score 1 - **3.** No, red pandas and giant pandas are not close relatives, though both eat bamboo — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** Yes, they are the same animal in two colours — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 107, line 4: «In Kung Fu Panda, Po gobbles dumplings and his teacher Shifu is a red panda; real giant pandas live on bamboo, and the red panda is not even a close relative,…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «red panda» (+3); the same thing acted on «close relative» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/t2/) ### Test 3 · right ✓ {#t3} In The Emperor's New Groove the emperor is turned into a llama. If a real llama spat, who would it most likely spit at? - **1.** Only at the moon, when it is full and bright — no support - **2.** Any person at all who comes close to it — no support - **3.** At its own food, to make it soft to chew — no support - **4.** Another llama, to settle an argument — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 183, line 13: «Llamas and alpacas live in the Andes; their blood carries oxygen well, and they spit mostly at each other to settle arguments.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «settle» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «llamas» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/t3/) ### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4} «4 yaks pulling a load, how many horns and tails altogether» - **1.** 4 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 8 — no support - **3.** 12 — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** 16 — no support **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/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/t4/) ### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5} «2 snow leopards and 3 marmots, count the tails» - **1.** 10 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 3 — no support - **3.** 2 — no support - **4.** 5 — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/t5/) ### Test 6 · wrong ✗ {#t6} What would happen to a lowland goose that tried to fly as high as a bar-headed goose? - **1.** It would struggle to get enough oxygen from the thin air — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It would turn into a bar-headed goose, which can fly very high — no support - **3.** It would be warmer up there — no support - **4.** It would fly even faster — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 183, line 8: «Bar-headed geese fly over the Himalayas, the highest mountains on Earth; their blood carries oxygen very well, and they often fly at night or early morning, wh…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fly» (+2). Against it: the same doer «geese» (-1). The right option, 1, 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/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/t6/) ### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7} «why's it so hard to breathe up here, the air's still there innit» What is right? - **1.** The air is too hot to breathe — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Mountains have more oxygen than the beach — no support - **3.** The air is thinner high up, so each breath holds less oxygen — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** There is no air at all on mountains — no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/t7/) ### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8} A hiker hears a sharp whistle and sees small furry animals rush into holes. What happened? - **1.** Someone was calling a dog — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It was time for their lunch, and the oldest marmot was calling them in — no support - **3.** The marmots were playing tag — no support - **4.** A marmot spotted an eagle or fox and warned the others — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/t8/) ### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9} «a panda eats bamboo all day, what a lazy fatso» What is right? - **1.** Pandas eat all day because bamboo is too tasty — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 - **2.** Pandas also hunt yaks — score 7 - **3.** Pandas eat little and sleep the rest — score 10 - **4.** Bamboo has so little energy that pandas must eat for many hours to get enough — **✓ the right answer** · score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 135, line 5: «Real giant pandas eat almost only bamboo, about 12 to 38 kilograms a day, and spend about 12 to 14 hours a day eating.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «eat» (+3); the same doer «real giant pandas» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 9. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/t9/) ### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10} Why might a condor choose to fly in the warm middle of the day? - **1.** Rising warm air lets it glide without flapping — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Insects are easier to catch then — no support - **3.** It cannot see anything in the early morning — no support - **4.** The wind stops at midday — no support **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/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/t10/) ### Test 11 · wrong ✗ {#t11} Why can a jumping spider live where no plants grow, near the top of Everest? - **1.** It flies down every day to hunt in the valleys far below — score 4 - **2.** It eats rocks — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** The wind carries insects up the mountain for it to eat — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** It does not need any food at all for months — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 183, line 4: «Even near the top of Mount Everest, where nothing grows, a tiny jumping spider lives by eating insects that the wind blows up from below.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+4); the same doer «tiny jumping spider» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the principal difficulty presented to animals by the atmosphere at high altitude. - **1.** Each breath contains less oxygen owing to the thinness of the air — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The air is devoid of all gases — no support - **3.** The air is warmer than at sea level, and warm air is harder to breathe — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** The air contains an excess of oxygen — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 66, line 4: «Breathe on a cold window and the mist shows that the air you breathe out is warm and wet from inside you.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same doer «air» (-1). The right option, 1, 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/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the snow leopard? - **1.** It hibernates for eight months annually — score 7 - **2.** It inhabits the high mountains of Asia and is incapable of roaring — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **3.** It is a close relative of the giant panda — score 7 - **4.** It inhabits the African savanna and roars loudly — score 10 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 183, line 5: «Snow leopards live high in the mountains of Asia; their long thick tails help them balance and wrap round their faces to keep them warm when they sleep.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «live» (+3); the same doer «snow leopards» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the bar-headed goose. - **1.** It carries reserves of oxygen within its feathers — score 0 - **2.** It traverses mountains exclusively at midday — no support - **3.** It is incapable of flight at any altitude — no support - **4.** Its blood transports oxygen with great efficiency, permitting flight over the Himalayas — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 183, line 8: «Bar-headed geese fly over the Himalayas, the highest mountains on Earth; their blood carries oxygen very well, and they often fly at night or early morning, wh…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «carry» (+5); the same doer «blood» (+3); the same thing acted on «oxygen» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Ascertain the principal reason for which the giant panda devotes many hours each day to feeding. - **1.** It is compelled to store food for hibernation — no support - **2.** It consumes chiefly meat, which is scarce — no support - **3.** Its teeth are unable to chew rapidly — no support - **4.** Bamboo yields comparatively little energy — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 107, line 1: «The giant panda sits like a person on a sofa, holds a bamboo stem in its paw and munches for up to 14 hours a day, because bamboo gives little energy and its g…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+5); the same doer «bamboo» (+3); the same thing acted on «little energy» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/e4/) - ← previous: [182. Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/) - next →: [184. Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hipp…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/)