The Turtle Test Number 1
1 Dec. 2000
1) Name the only North American turtle to lay its eggs exclusively in the
fall and winter? Florida cooters lay every month of the year so this answer
does not count.
2) What was the first earth based vertebrate to visit outer space?
3) What does a snail say when hitching a ride on the back of a turtle?
4) Name Baltimore's first professional baseball team.
5) Who was the first European to see and write about an alligator? We had to
have one crocodilean question.
6) Prohibition helped save what turtle from possible extinction? How?
7) How many years does it take a leatherback, the largest of the living
chelonians, to reach maturity?
8) Are there any valid records of tortoises living past 150 years?
9) Name four species of estuarine turtles?
10) Can you think of a turtle that is hot blooded, has the physiology of
diving marine mammals, lacks scales, and cries and screams?
11) What percentage of the world's chelonian fauna is at some level of
conservation concern?
Enjoy!
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