Snail Trivia Questions
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1. From the day they hatch, baby snails eat the same thing as their parents. True or False? What do they eat? - Many snails eggs never hatch and some baby snails never make it through their first week. Although some food may be hard to get to, baby snails eat the same thing as their parents... Plants. The first thing they eat however is their own egg shell due to the calcium content that will harden their shell.
2. Are snails awake during the day or night? - at night
3. What is it called when an animal is awake at night? - nocturnal
4. What is it called when an animal is awake during the day? - diurnal.
5. Name some other animals that are nocturnal. - raccoons, bats, owls...
6. What family do snails and slugs belong to? - a Gastropod, which is a type of mollusk
7. What substance, commonly used in cooking can kill a snail? - salt
8. What does a snail do over winter? - hibernate
9. What protective measures do snails take to protect themselves? What do they do when their environment is unsuitable? - Snails hide in their shell. They will hibernate in their snails if the environment is unsuitable and will reemerge when the environment has improved.
10. How long do scientists think snails existed on earth? - as long as 600 million years and they believed to evolve from sea snails.
11. If a snails shell is broken do they die? - they could die due to infection, but they can regenerate their shell if it eats enough calcium.
12. Is there a way to tell if a Snail is Male or Female? - No... they have both Female and Male parts.
13. What is an animal that is both sexes called? - A hermaphrodite
14. Can they fertilize themselves? - Yes, but they prefer to mate with each other.
15. When snails mate which one goes to lay the eggs? - both of them!
16. Name at least one use for snails for humans. - Spa treatment (reguvinates skin), food (escargot), testing the effects of gravity on humans in space, assisting in tracking the movements of humans in history,
17. Where do snails prefer to live? - moist, dark, cool places. (They live in many places around the world)
18. How does a snail shell grow? - in s spiral outward from the middle, where the original shell is from when it was a baby.
19. What is the formula that creates a perfect spiral snail shape and is found in many things in nature? - Fibonacci
20. How fast can a snail move? - 1.3 cm/sec or 50 yards per hour.
1. From the day they hatch, baby snails eat the same thing as their parents. True or False? What do they eat? - Many snails eggs never hatch and some baby snails never make it through their first week. Although some food may be hard to get to, baby snails eat the same thing as their parents... Plants. The first thing they eat however is their own egg shell due to the calcium content that will harden their shell.
2. Are snails awake during the day or night? - at night
3. What is it called when an animal is awake at night? - nocturnal
4. What is it called when an animal is awake during the day? - diurnal.
5. Name some other animals that are nocturnal. - raccoons, bats, owls...
6. What family do snails and slugs belong to? - a Gastropod, which is a type of mollusk
7. What substance, commonly used in cooking can kill a snail? - salt
8. What does a snail do over winter? - hibernate
9. What protective measures do snails take to protect themselves? What do they do when their environment is unsuitable? - Snails hide in their shell. They will hibernate in their snails if the environment is unsuitable and will reemerge when the environment has improved.
10. How long do scientists think snails existed on earth? - as long as 600 million years and they believed to evolve from sea snails.
11. If a snails shell is broken do they die? - they could die due to infection, but they can regenerate their shell if it eats enough calcium.
12. Is there a way to tell if a Snail is Male or Female? - No... they have both Female and Male parts.
13. What is an animal that is both sexes called? - A hermaphrodite
14. Can they fertilize themselves? - Yes, but they prefer to mate with each other.
15. When snails mate which one goes to lay the eggs? - both of them!
16. Name at least one use for snails for humans. - Spa treatment (reguvinates skin), food (escargot), testing the effects of gravity on humans in space, assisting in tracking the movements of humans in history,
17. Where do snails prefer to live? - moist, dark, cool places. (They live in many places around the world)
18. How does a snail shell grow? - in s spiral outward from the middle, where the original shell is from when it was a baby.
19. What is the formula that creates a perfect spiral snail shape and is found in many things in nature? - Fibonacci
20. How fast can a snail move? - 1.3 cm/sec or 50 yards per hour.