Answers to the Sloth Quizzes


Answers to the Easy Sloth Quiz

1. Sloths are native to which of the following?
Answer: Central and South America

2. What do sloths eat?
Answer: Leaves and buds

3. Which is NOT a predator of sloths?
Answer: Bald Eagles

4. What does a sloth do upside down?
Answer: All of the above: Eat, Give birth, Sleep

5. What do sloths do if they want new leaves to eat?
Answer: Go to another tree

6. Which CAN'T a sloth do:
Answer: Run on their feet

7. How many species of three-toed sloths are there?
Answer: 3

8. What color is sloth hair?
Answer: Gray or brown

9. Their hair is often covered with a coat of:
Answer: Algae

10. About how long are they when grown?
Answer: 2 feet

Answers to the Hard Sloth Quiz

1. The Three-toed Sloth is part of which family?
Answer: Bradypodidae

2. The most rare of the five species of sloths is only found in Eastern Brazil. What is it?
Answer: Maned Sloth

3. Two-toed sloths have six or seven vertebrae. How many do Three-toed sloths have?
Answer: 9

4. What enables them to live on relatively little food?
Answer: Their low rate of metabolism

5. The two-toed sloth has larger what than the three-toed sloth
Answer: Eyes

6. Their ancestor, the Giant Ground Sloth, lived before:
Answer: The last ice age

7. In which country are more three-toed sloths found than two-toed ones?
Answer: Argentina

8. In their natural habitat, what is the population density of the Three-Toed Sloth?
Answer: 2-3 per acre

9. Which of the following internal organs are in different positions than most other mammals?
Answer: All of the above: Liver, Stomach, Spleen

10. There are photos on this web site of two real life sloths in zoos. What are their names?
Answer: Carmen and Lucky


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