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1. Australia has about species of mammals.
a. 55
b. 230
c. 1065
Answer b

2. Marsupials are .
a. mammals that give birth to live but very immature young which live in a pouch
b. animals that hop
c. mammals born from eggs
Answer a

3. Almost percent of Australia's mammals are marsupials.
a. 90
b. 20
c. 50
Answer c

4. A platypus is a .
a. large Australian animal
b. marsupial
c. monotreme
Answer c

5. A monotreme is an animal .
a. which lays eggs
b. which feeds its young milk but has no teats
c. which can hear but has no ears
Answer b

6. A koala .
a. is a small bear
b. is very active during the day
c. has a pouch that opens downwards
Answer c

7. When a kangaroo is born it is as big as a .
a. tennis ball
b. small human baby
c. peanut
Answer c

8. The female kangaroo .
a. can have one baby outside the pouch, a younger one inside the pouch and one waiting to be born - all at the same time
b. is usually larger than the male
c. has a different hopping rhythm to the male
Answer a

9. A baby kangaroo is called a .
a. kangette
b. joey
c. roo
Answer b

10. A platypus .
a. is a strange mammal
b. is common throughout Australia, New Zealand and southern parts of Asia
c. has mouth and feet like a duck, a tail like a beaver and lays eggs
Answer c

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