ANIMAL QUIZ

First, what is the comparative and superlative form of these adjectives?

FAST SLOW STRONG DANGEROUS RARE COMMON

Now, put these animals in order of speed:

HORSE LION FALCON CHEETAH SNAIL TIGER SLOTH ELEPHANT

FAST SLOW

1)_________ 2)__________ 3)_________ 4)_________ 5)__________ 6)_________ 7) _________

Strength (relative to body size and weight):

ANACONDA BEETLE LION EAGLE GORILLA TIGER ELEPHANT

STRONG LEAST STRONG

1)___________ 2)____________ 3)___________ 4)___________ 5)____________ 6)___________

Danger (how many humans are killed each year):

SHARK MOSQUITO SNAKE HUMAN HIPPO DOG

DANGEROUS LEAST DANGEROUS

1)___________ 2)____________ 3)___________ 4)___________ 5)____________ 6)___________

Common (how many are there on the planet):

PANDA CHEETAH TIGER LION MOUNTAIN GORILLA

COMMON RARE

1)____________ 2)_____________ 3)____________ 4)____________ 5)_____________

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 Teacher's Notes
Divide the students into groups and ask these questions. One point for each
correct answer.

1. Which animal is the fastest?

2. Which animal is the slowest?
3. Which animal is the second fastest?
4. Which is faster – a lion or a tiger?
5. Which animal is the strongest?
6. Is an eagle as strong as an anaconda?
7. Is a lion stronger than a tiger?
8. Of these animals, which is the least strong?
9. What animal is the most dangerous?
10. Is a shark more or less dangerous than a dog?
11. Is a hippo as dangerous as a snake?
12. Which of these is the most common animal?
13. Is a tiger more or less common than a cheetah?
14. Is a mountain gorilla more common or rarer than a panda?
15. Which is the rarest of these animals?

THE FASTEST THE SLOWEST

1. FALCON (242 miles per hour) 2. CHEETAH (61) 3. LION (50) 4. HORSE (44) 5. TIGER (40)
6. ELEPHANT (25) 7. SLOTH (70 metres/hour) 8. SNAIL (47metres/hour)

THE STRONGEST THE LEAST STRONG

1. BEETLE (lifts 1,100 times its body weight – the equivalent of a human pulling 6 london
buses full of people) 2. GORILLA (x10) 3. EAGLE (4x) 4. TIGER (2x) 5. ELEPHANT
6. ANACONDA (can lift its own body weight) 7. LION (three quarters its body weight).

THE MOST DANGEROUS THE LEAST DANGEROUS

1. MOSQUITO (kills 725,00 people each year) 2. HUMAN (475,000) 3. SNAKE (96,000 people) 4.
DOGS (25,000 only in India) 5. HIPPO (500) 6. SHARK (10)
ref: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/15/which-animal-kills-the-most-humans/

THE MOST COMMON THE RAREST

1. LION (there are 23,000 lions – 1 century ago there were 200,000) 2. CHEETAH (10,000 but
falling quickly) 3. TIGER (4,000) 4. PANDA (2,000) 5. MOUNTAIN GORILLA (less than 1,000)

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