🐻 Animal Needs and Basic Survival
All animals need four basic things to live and grow healthy: food, water, shelter, and air. This quiz helps you understand why each need is important, how different animals meet their needs, and what happens when an animal is missing one of these essentials. **What you'll learn:** - The four basic needs that all animals share - Why food, water, shelter, and air are important for survival - How different animals find food, water, and shelter - How a missing need affects an animal's health and survival
Questions in this quiz
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- Question 1
Which one of these is NOT a basic need that all animals must have to survive?
- Question 2
All animals need water to drink in order to survive.
- Question 3
Why do animals need food?
- Question 4
Which animal builds a shelter by making a web?
- Question 5
Fish need air to breathe just like humans do.
- Question 6
What is a shelter?
- Question 7
A bird builds a nest in a tree. What basic animal need does the nest help meet?
- Question 8
Animals can live without shelter as long as they have food and water.
- Question 9
Where does a rabbit usually find shelter?
- Question 10
What would happen to a fish if it could not breathe air or oxygen?
- Question 11
A bear can survive in winter by finding food and water, but it does not need a shelter.
- Question 12
Which animal gets water by drinking from a pond or river?
- Question 13
Why do all animals need to breathe air or get oxygen?
- Question 14
A squirrel gathers and stores nuts in its burrow during autumn. Which two basic needs is the squirrel meeting?
- Question 15
Some animals, like birds, can find food by hunting other animals or eating seeds and berries.