Online Natural Heritage Quiz Competition
"At Home With Nature: Learning Biodiversity from The Biodiverse "
On the occasion of International Day for Biological Diversity. Open a window to the canvas of life in the World Natural heritage Sites in Asia and The Pacific Region. Join Wildlife Institute of India and World Heritage Centre a unique adventure a journey through exceptional habitats from the perspective of their iconic residents. An Online Natural Heritage Quiz Competition is organized by Wildlife Institute of India.
All participants in this quiz will awarded an E-Certificate. Take your time with this natural heritage quiz and enjoy the trip from tropical forests to frozen wildernesses.
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Q-1: Though not quite the king of the jungle from children’s tales, I live in the southern stretch of mountains of the monsoon, running along the western coast of the Indian peninsula. The World Heritage Site of the Western Ghats harbour an extensive range of endemic life including me the _____-tailed macaque?*
10 points
Q-2: A burst of biodiversity and beauty, marine and terrestrial, mark my home in the islands of the Indonesian archipelago. My sheer size made early European seafarers to (what is now) an island World Heritage Site mistake me for a mythical creature with which I share my last name. I am the ________ ________ ?*
10 points
Q-3: It’s hot in my hometown of the Lut Desert in Iran, a World Heritage Site. Very hot. The temperatures here have been recorded to go up to 70 degree centigrade. But life finds a way and so do I. A little contraption at my tail’s end helps me attract the hungry to end my hunger. I am the ______-tailed horned viper.*
10 points
Q-4: On my home, the World Heritage Site of Yakushima which is an island where the palaearctic and oriental biotic regions meet, you’ll find me – the sugi or Japanese cedar – and my ancient brethren, most over a 1000 years old in a primeval temperate rainforest which receives over 8000 mm annual rainfall. Despite nutrient-poor soil on granite surfaces and exposure to typhoons I grow slowly but surely, resisting rot. How?*
10 points
Q-5: The “Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan” is how the World Heritage Convention defines where I roam but to me it has always been just home – the steppe, flat unforested grasslands as far as the eye can see. I am the saiga antelope and my nose may catch your eye. Here in the dry summers of the steppe, it filters:*
10 points
Q-6: I am found in reefs around the world, so don’t be surprised by my numbers in the World Heritage Site of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in Kiribati. Even as schools of me and my extended family nibble off pieces of the reef to get to the algae lined polyps inside, through my system comes most of the fine beach sand which is ground up undigested coral. My bright colours give me the first part of my name, which is not quite a water creature. I am the ______ fish.*
10 points
Q-7: My home of the World Heritage Site of the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex contains all the major rainforest habitat types of eastern Thailand and more than 800 species of fauna. My bubbling call followed by frog like chucks may surprise you as I forage in well-vegetated patches as might a glimpse of my cormorant like body with hornbill like beak. But my name comes from the designs of my feet and my face, I am the __________ finfoot.*
10 points
Q-8: This snowy view is but a sample. Where I come from (in my wildest form) ranges across three countries including Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in altitudes from 700 to 4503 m as the World Heritage Site of Western Tien-Shan. The site being centrally located in trade routes connecting East and West for millennia, I feature on many breakfast tables in far-off lands. The doctor is traditionally said to have a positive opinion of me. I am the _______ ?*
10 points
Q-9: I call home an exceptional area with dramatic mountains, glaciers and deep valleys, dominated by Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world. Sagarmatha National Park has a number of interesting residents but it is my 'pods' a.k.a glands which put me at risk of poaching. I am the male Himalayan _______ deer.*
10 points
Q-10: I, the Serendib Scops Owl, lived a hidden life in the ancient tropical rainforests of Sri Lanka’s wet zone which include the World Heritage Site of Sinharaja Forest Reserve. It was only in 2002 when my distinctive call/song led to my discovery, a very small rufescent owl was introduced to science, the call being:*
10 points
Q-11: I am the heart of iconic mangrove forests – where massive rivers meet the Bay of Bengal and spread through two countries including Bangladesh. Within me roams the only mangrove tiger population in the world and I have roots that breathe through the air. My name lends itself to two World Heritage Sites. I am the elegant _____ tree.*
10 points
Q-12: You will find me in the millions at the World Heritage Site - Gunung Mulu National Park including in the Sarawak Chamber, the largest known cave chamber in the world. About 3 million individuals of us in one cave – Deer Cave. My long name begins with something usually associated with senior age. I am the ________-lipped free-tailed bat*
10 points
Q-13: You’ll find me soaring or perched in the World Heritage Site of Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary. an area of exceptional regional biodiversity and endemism.��I am the Philippine eagle, symbol of my country, considered the largest of the extant eagles in the world in terms of length and wing surface. I am also known as the _______-eating eagle as I engage in hunting its troops.*
10 points
Q-14: In the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam, where I stay, forests have developed around a vast limestone landscape, with many spectacular geomorphic features, including 104km of caves, including what could be the longest underground river.��I, the red-shanked douc langur, with my yellow-orange face have eyelids with powder-blue eye shadow and a wide black band stretches across my forehead. Even my “pot belly” is a shimmery silver color. Not to forget the maroon-red fur on my lower legs (shanks) stocking like. The white fur of my forearms like gloves and to complete the look, a triangle of white fur at the base of a white tail. Hence, not surprisingly, they call me the __________ monkey.*
10 points
Q-15: My home is the mixed World Heritage Site of Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park, Australia with spectacular red monoliths and four major desert ecosystems in a landscape integrated with the belief systems of the Anangu Aboriginal people, one of the oldest human societies in the world. A specialist in eating ants and with a design supremely adapted for the desert life, it is my appearance that gives me my name: the ________ Devil.*
10 points
Q-16: I reside in the World Heritage Site of Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand, a mosaic of 40 separate protected areas of rocky fjords, coasts, cliffs and forests. After being presumed extinct for nearly 50 years, I, the Takahe, was rediscovered in 1948 and I share a particular characteristic with the bird most used as a symbol my country. I am:*
10 points
Q-17: I need no introduction. The forested and ice-capped mountains on the western edge of the Sichuan basin – the World Heritage Site of Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries – Wolong, Mount Siguniang & Jiajin Mountains – is where I live, a botanical ‘hotspot’, with 4,000 species of flowering plants and relict and endangered plants and animals. I, the giant panda, prefer one kind of food - whose umbrella variety I feed on from autumn to spring, and the arrow variety in the summer. Varieties of?*
10 points
Q-18: My home of the Uvs Nuur Basin is an vast ancient lake bed in the centre of Asia, and a World Heritage Site. Comprised of twelve protected areas representing cold desert, desert-steppe, steppe, taiga, alpine tundra, boreal, deciduous and floodplain forests, saltmarshes and snow fields, at its heart is the salt lake of Uvs Nuur, which attracts a great range of birds including me, the Siberian crane. My serrated bill differentiates me from other cranes. It is designed to hold:*
10 points
Q-19: I am a summer visitor to the Jeju Volcanic Island & Lava Tubes, a World Heritage Site, with a fascinating lava tube system diverse and accessible volcanic features overlaid with endemic relic alpine flora.��Now 60 km from the Korean mainland, for the past 2-million-years until the recent 10,000, Jeju was part of the Korean Peninsula with common species before its flora and fauna began to diverge from the mainland.��I am here for the forests, which I use for breeding. With my striking looks and my pitta family lineage it may not seem a surprise to you that they call me the ______ Pitta.*
10 points
Q-20: I roam Tajikistan National Park - more than 2.5 million hectares in the east of the country with rich flora species of both the south-western and central Asian floristic regions. Subject to frequent strong earthquakes, this World Heritage Site is sparsely inhabited, and virtually unaffected by agriculture and permanent human settlements in an alpine wilderness of exceptional natural beauty. ��I, the snow leopard, am especially adapted to these climes and a critical tool for my survival here is what provides me balance on steep mountainsides and serves as a blanket during a snowstorm. I owe these functions to my _______ ?*
10 points
Q-21: I am small, so small that you may never notice me at the World Heritage Property of East Rennell. The property was the first natural property inscribed on the World Heritage List with customary ownership and management sustaining many unique species and races of birds due to its isolation and relatively light disturbance by human and alien species. I come in many varieties including Green, Brown, Red, Blue Green and play a significant role in every ecosystem. A prominent feature of the biodiversity rich property is Lake Tegano, the former lagoon of the atoll, which at 15,000ha is the largest lake in the insular Pacific and that is where you’ll find me and many other species of my kind – in fact 300 of them with many of them endemic. I am:*
10 points
Q-22: My home stretches in and around the Mixed World Heritage Site of the Rock Islands Southern Lagoon. The reefs surrounding sustain a large diversity of corals, plants, birds and marine life including me and at least thirteen shark species. The concentration of marine lakes, isolated bodies of seawater separated from the ocean by land barriers, are also a unique feature as are remains of stonework villages, as well as burial sites and rock art from some three millennia. This makes my home an incredible Mixed World Heritage Site.��I, the dugong, like to take it slow, feeding on sea grass underwater. I move around with the help of my dolphin like fluke which can be seen on the surface leading to many lonely sailors in the past to assume that they had just seen the mythical ________?*
10 points
Q-23: My home of Mount Wuyi, a Mixed World Heritage Site, has one of the largest, most intact and biologically diverse subtropical forests in the world along with numerous now ruined temples and monasteries from the 11th century which have been very influential in the cultures of East Asia.��It is a refuge for a large number of relict plants, many of them endemic to China. For a long time, I myself was known to science only as a fossil and thought to be extinct for 20 million years before my re-discovery in 1948 in the canyons of southern China. I can grow up to 160 feet myself and the second half of my name should be possible to guess as I am family to the tallest living trees in the world. I am the dawn _________*
10 points
Q-24: My domain, the World Heritage Site of Kaziranga National Park on the banks of the Brahmaputra has served as a strong model of conservation for a long time. Its forest edged riverine grasslands have been instrumental in restoring my population, an iconic animal, from the very brink and now holds nearly two-thirds of our global population. I am the _____________ ?*
10 points
Q-25: Heard Island and McDonald Islands are located in the Southern Ocean, approximately 1,700 km from the Antarctic continent and 4,100 km south-west of the Australian mainland. Besides the chance to observe ongoing geomorphic processes and glacial dynamics, this World Heritage Site also represents rare pristine island ecosystems with complete absence of alien plants and animals with a particular abundance of Gentoo, Macaroni, and 4 more types of us. We are _______?*
10 points
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