Friday | Rāmere Conservation Week quiz
Introduction
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Questions
- How do albatross keep cool when they get too warm?
- panting
- standing
- creating shade with their bodies
- all of the above
Tuke/rock wren
Image: Kerry Weston. Creative Commons - How many feathers have been found in a rock wren’s nest?
- 10–20
- 50–100
- 200–300
- over 400
- How many species of snake are native to New Zealand?
- 0
- 8
- 4
- Which of these is not a New Zealand gecko?
- coughing gecko
- barking gecko
- elegant gecko
- jewelled gecko
- Where would you find historic Packhorse Hut?
- Banks Peninsula
- Cape Reinga/Te Rerenga Wairua
- Kahurangi National Park
- What is a whio/blue duck's normal habitat?
- True or false – New Zealand native frogs do not have a tadpole stage?
- Which endemic insect has its own predator-proof sanctuary near Tekapo?
- wētā
- robust grasshopper
- giraffe weevil
- New Zealand native frogs are different from frogs around the world because they have:
- no external eardrum
- round eyes
- both
- What percentage of kiwi chicks survive to breeding age in areas with no predator control?
- 5%
- 15%
- 25%
Answers
Questions – Te reo Māori
- He pēhea te whakamātao a te toroa, ina kaha rawa te wera mōna?
- Ka kihakiha
- Ka tū hei whakamātao i ōna waewae
- Ko tōna tinana tonu hei whakamarumaru
- Ēnei mea katoa
Tuke/rock wren
Image: Kerry Weston. Creative Commons - E hia ngā huruhuru manu kua kitea i tētahi kōhanga rock wren?
- 10–20
- 50–100
- 200–300
- Neke atu i te 400
- E hia ngā momo nākahi e kīa ana he momo māori nō Aotearoa?
- 0
- 8
- 4
- Ko tēhea o ēnei ehara i te moko pāpā o Aotearoa?
- coughing gecko
- barking gecko
- elegant gecko
- jewelled gecko
- Ka kitea e koe te Tawharau tawhito o Packhorse Hut i hea?
- Horomaka
- Te Rerenga Wairua
- Te Whenua Rāhui o Kahurangi
- He aha te ripoinga o te nuinga o ngā whio (blue duck)?
- He pono, he parau rānei – kāore he wā punua pokopoko (tadpole) o ngā pokopoko māori o Aotearoa.
- Ko tēhea te pepeke taketake nō konei kua whai taiepa ārai kaikonihi mōna ake i Tekapō?
- Te wētā
- Te māwhitiwhiti o te Manahuna
- Te pepeke ngutu-roa
- He rerekē ngā pepeketua māori (frog) o Aotearoa i te katoa o ngā pepeketua o te ao i te mea:
- Kāore he torino taringa whakawaho
- He karu porotaka
- Ēnei mea e rua
- He aha te ōrau o ngā pī kiwi ka ora tonu ki te pakeke whakaputa uri i ngā rohe kāore he ārainga kaikonihi?
- 5%
- 15%
- 25%
Answers