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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What is the name for an animal that eats other animals?	Carnivore	93%
What is the name for an animal that doesn't have a backbone?	Invertebrate	81%
What type of blood vessels carry blood away from the heart?	Arteries	74%
The name of what type of animal means 'Both ways of life'? (Hint: they can live in both on land and in water).	Amphibian	71%
Many animals produce poison, but what is the name for poison that an animal specifically injects into another through biting or stinging?	Venom	62%
What is the word for when one species benefits at the expense of another species, without killing it?	Parasitism	56%
What is the name for an organism that is both male and female?	Hermaphrodite	51%
Not all microorganisms are bad, some are even beneficial, but what is the name for a microbe that specifically causes disease?	Pathogen	46%
'Erythrocyte' is the proper word for what?	Red blood cell	42%
What is the opposite of 'ventral'?	Dorsal	35%
What is the word for an organism that can produce its own energy (such as from light or chemicals)?	Autotroph	31%
What is the name of an animal that does not cause disease itself but transmits disease causing microbes?	Vector	31%
What is the word for an organism that has to obtain its energy from elsewhere?	Heterotroph	28%
What word describes an organism that prefer high temperatures?	Thermophile	26%
What type of mollusc are slugs and snails? (Hint: the name literally means 'Stomach foot').	Gastropod	18%
What word describes animals that lay eggs?	Oviparous	14%
What word describes animals that give birth to live young?	Viviparous	13%
What word describes organisms that live on dead or decomposed matter?	Saprophytic	8%
What are the wing-like lobes on the end of a whale's tail called?	Flukes	7%
What word is used to describe a species where male and female are separate?	Diecious	2%