--- title: The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals — how Mova does on the tests · Biology description: Lesson 298 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 12 tests right, exam 4 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/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/) [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/) / 298 # The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals **Tests:** 6 of 12 right · **Exam:** 4 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 298 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/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/). 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/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} In a Christmas advert a polar bear gives a present to a penguin on an iceberg. What is wrong? - **1.** Polar bears live only in zoos — score 2 - **2.** Nothing, they share the same ice — no support - **3.** Polar bears live in the north and penguins in the south, so they never meet — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** Penguins are far too small to hold a present with their flippers — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 5: «Christmas cards get the map wrong: polar bears live in the far north and penguins in the south, so in the wild they never meet.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «far north» (+4); the same action «live» (+3). Against it: the same doer «polar bears» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} «whale's a fish innit, lives in the sea, got fins» What is right? - **1.** Yes, anything with fins and a tail that swims in the sea is a fish — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Yes, and so is a dolphin — no support - **3.** No, a whale is an amphibian — no support - **4.** No, it breathes air, has warm blood and feeds its babies milk: a mammal — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 184, line 13: «Salmon swim upstream from the sea to the river where they hatched, finding it by smell, and leftovers from bears catching salmon help feed forest trees.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «sea» (+4); the same action «swim» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} Count them: 3 spiders and 2 ants are on the window. How many legs altogether? - **1.** 36 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** 24 — no support - **3.** 40 — no support - **4.** 30 — 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/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Count them: 5 octopuses swim past the boat. How many hearts do they have together? - **1.** 15 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** 40 — no support - **3.** 5 — no support - **4.** 10 — 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/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Who would win a race across land, sea and air: a cheetah, a sailfish or a diving peregrine falcon? - **1.** All three tie at exactly the same speed — no support - **2.** The cheetah, because it is the fastest animal of all — no support - **3.** The sailfish, because water is fast — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** The peregrine falcon, at over 300 kilometres an hour — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 298, line 10: «The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal, diving at over 300 kilometres an hour; on land the cheetah reaches about 100 to 110, and in water the sailfish is a…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «sailfish» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} «camels store water in the hump, everybody knows that» What is the best correction? - **1.** The hump stores sand — score 3 - **2.** The hump stores fat; camels save water by losing very little — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **3.** Right, the hump is a water tank that sloshes as it walks — score -1 - **4.** The hump is full of air for floating — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 182, line 4: «Desert plants save water too: a cactus stores it in a fat stem and swells after rain, like a sponge you fill and then squeeze slowly for months.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «save» (+8); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «water» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} Why does the Arctic tern see more daylight than any other animal? - **1.** It never sleeps at all, not even for a minute — no support - **2.** It lives on the equator, where the sun is strongest all year — score 2 - **3.** It follows the summer from the far north to the far south — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** It flies only at midday — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 298, line 9: «The Arctic tern has the longest migration, flying from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year, about 70000 kilometres, following the summer from one en…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «follow» (+5); the same property (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} A wasp is bright yellow and black. Why? - **1.** It keeps the wasp cool — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** It helps it hide in the dark — no support - **3.** It is a warning colour that says «I sting» — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It is camouflage among green leaves — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 58, line 15: «A fig is a hollow ball of tiny flowers turned inwards, and wild figs are pollinated by tiny fig wasps that crawl inside; the fig digests any wasp that dies in…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «wasp» (+2); the same doer «wasp» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, 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/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} In a cartoon a lion eats grass with a cow. What do the teeth of a real lion tell you? - **1.** Flat grinding teeth show it is a plant-eater, like the cow — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Lions have no teeth at all — no support - **3.** Sharp meat-cutting teeth show it is a carnivore — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Its teeth show it eats only fruit — 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/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} «hedgehog's gone all cold and slow in the leaf pile, is it dead??» What is most likely? - **1.** It is hibernating, with its heart and breathing slowed down — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** It is pretending for fun — no support - **3.** It has turned into a ball of leaves — score 2 - **4.** It is dead from the cold and should be taken out at once — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 298, line 15: «Some animals hibernate through winter when food is scarce, slowing their heart and breathing to save energy; hedgehogs, dormice and many bats hibernate, while…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hibernate» (+3). Against it: the same doer «hedgehogs» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} In a cartoon a sloth hangs from the treetops and never comes down. In which layer does it live? - **1.** The tree roots — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** The canopy — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** The river bed — score 3 - **4.** The forest floor — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 108, line 4: «Films show piranhas stripping a cow in seconds, Flash the sloth in Zootopia takes forever to laugh at a joke, and Sid of Ice Age meets dinosaurs; the truth is…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same doer «giant ground sloths» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Which penguin lives nearest the equator? - **1.** The emperor penguin — **← Mova's choice** · score 9 - **2.** The Galapagos penguin — **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **3.** No penguin goes north of Antarctica — score 6 - **4.** The king penguin — score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 7, line 9: «Polar bears live only in the Arctic and penguins almost only in the southern half of the world, so they never meet in the wild; the Galapagos penguin lives rig…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «galapagos penguin» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); the same action «live» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 9. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the classification of whales. - **1.** Whales are amphibians capable of residence on land — no support - **2.** Whales are fish, by reason of their fins — score 2 - **3.** Whales are reptiles inhabiting the ocean — no support - **4.** Whales are mammals, which respire air and nourish their young with milk — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 298, line 7: «Whales are mammals, not fish: they breathe air, have warm blood, feed their babies milk and even have a few hairs, while sharks are fish.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «breathe» (+3); the same thing acted on «air» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Identify the principal distinction between spiders and insects. - **1.** Spiders possess eight legs and two body parts, insects six legs and three — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **2.** Spiders possess wings, insects possess none — score 0 - **3.** Spiders are vertebrates, insects are invertebrates — score 0 - **4.** Spiders possess six legs and three body parts, insects eight legs and two — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 298, line 8: «Spiders have eight legs and two body parts, insects have six legs and three body parts; spiders belong to the arachnids, with scorpions and ticks.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «eight legs» (+1). Against it: the same doer «spiders» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the function of the camel's hump? - **1.** It constitutes a store of fat — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It contains air for the purpose of flotation — no support - **3.** It contains a supplementary stomach — no support - **4.** It constitutes a reservoir of water — 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/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} State the number of hearts possessed by an octopus, together with the colour of its blood. - **1.** Three hearts and blue blood — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** One heart and red blood — no support - **3.** Two hearts and green blood — no support - **4.** Eight hearts and colourless blood — 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/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/e4/) - ← previous: [297. 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