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CREEPY CRAWLY QUIZ

Test your knowledge of creepy crawlies!
This quiz is about weird facts.

1. Snails sleep a lot. How long do you think desert snails have been known to doze for?
a) 10 years
b) 3 or 4 years
c) 2 weeks
d) 3 hours

2. There are lots of spiders in lush green areas like Orkney. Roughly how many spiders per acre do you think there are in green areas?
a) 50,000
b) 10
c) lots
d) 500

3. If a cockroach loses its head, how long can it survive?
a) 10 minutes
b) quite a long time
c) several weeks
d) 2 years

4. An African termite, trinervitermes, builds twelve inch high mounds which have water shafts under them. How deep down do you think they go?
a) 10 miles
b) 23 feet
c) quite deep
d) 130 feet

5. Many locusts have an adult life span of only a few weeks after living in the ground as grubs. How long do they spend as grubs?
a) 12 seconds
b) 2 months
c) 15 years
d) 18 days