Polar coast quiz

Tap an answer. You can check your thinking on each animal's plate.

1. What color is a polar bear's skin?
   WhitePinkBlackYellow
   Black skin under hollow, see-through hair. See the plate
2. How can you tell a sea lion from a true seal?
   Sea lions have ear flaps and walk on flippersSeals bark louderSea lions have no whiskersSeals are always bigger
   Eared seals rotate their back flippers forward to walk. See the plate
3. A walrus uses its tusks mainly to?
   Dig for clamsHaul out onto iceFight polar bears dailyCut fish
   It finds clams with its whiskers and uses tusks like ice picks. See the plate
4. Which penguin dad holds the egg on his feet through the Antarctic winter?
   African penguinEmperor penguinLittle penguinHumboldt penguin
   For about two months, huddled with other males. See the plate
5. The biggest threat to polar bears is?
   ZoosLoss of sea icePenguinsHunting by orcas
   They hunt seals from sea ice that is shrinking as the Arctic warms. See the plate