Multi-choice activity for tuitime, ecology education about New Zealand tui.

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The Eat or be Eaten page in the InfoNest section will help you to answer the multiple-choice questions, below. When you have made your choices, click Submit. Your answers will be automatically marked and feedback presented.

1.	An animal which hunts, catches, kills and eats other animals is called:
	a.	a shark
	b.	a hunter
	c.	a carnivore
	d.	a predator

2.	Before humans arrived in New Zealand, the only land mammals were:
	a.	cats
	b.	bats
	c.	rats (kiore)
	d.	dogs

3.	Animals that humans brought to New Zealand are called:
	a.	predators
	b.	native
	c.	introduced
	d.	endemic

4.	Animals like stoats and cats can easily catch native birds because the birds:
	a.	cannot fly
	b.	have no defence adaptations
	c.	build their nests on the ground
	d.	have no teeth

5.	When a species like the moa has died out completely it is:
	a.	endangered
	b.	threatened
	c.	at risk
	d.	extinct

6.	What can we do to animals like stoats, rats and cats to help protect our native birds?
	a.	kill them
	b.	give them pills so they cannot breed
	c.	move them to islands
	d.	cut off their food supply

7.	Since humans arrived in New Zealand, native bird numbers have decreased. Other species affected are:
	a.	native frogs
	b.	native lizards
	c.	native invertebrates
	d.	all of the above

8.	Stoats and cats will attack an adult tui:
	a.	when it is sitting on a nest keeping its eggs warm
	b.	when it is flying between trees
	c.	when it is fighting with another tui
	d.	all of the above

9.	It is easiest for stoats and cats to catch tui:
	a.	when they are flying between trees
	b.	when they have just hatched because they can't fly away
	c.	when they are adults because they are big enough to make a good feed
	d.	when they are old and weak

10.	Why must a mother tui not leave a nest of eggs for too long?
	a.	the eggs will get too hot and the chicks will die
	b.	the father tui will break the eggs
	c.	rats and possums will eat the eggs
	d.	she won't be able to find the nest again