How it works
These animal trivia questions for kids are for reading aloud to ages 5 to 10, with three choices and a reason each. Six rounds cover homes, food, bodies, movement and sounds, pets and farm animals, and zoo and wild animals.
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Six rounds of animal questions
Animal homes has hives, burrows, lodges and setts. What animals eat goes from grass to jellyfish. Animal bodies has trunks, stripes, quills and shells. How animals move and the sounds they make has howls, purrs and swinging gibbons. Pets and farm animals visits the stable, the sty and the hutch. Zoo and wild animals has gorillas, bison and giant pandas.
Print a sheet of 20
A tap on a choice shows the answer and its reason. After ten questions the card offers Print question sheet, a sheet of 20. Open More options there for Topic, to stay on one round, and for Print answer key.
Tips
- Read the question and all three choices aloud, then let the youngest child answer first.
- Pets and farm animals is the gentlest round by our estimate, with nine easy questions.
Questions and answers
What are some easy animal trivia questions for kids?
Try these. What is a shelter for a dog called? A kennel. What does a spider build to catch its food? A web. Which animal makes the sound called a bark? A dog. Each round is stored easiest first.
What is a beaver's home called?
A lodge. Beavers build dams and lodges from tree branches, plants, rocks and mud. A badger's home is a sett and a tree squirrel's nest is a drey. All three are in Animal homes.
Can flying squirrels really fly?
No. Flying squirrels cannot fly like birds or bats, but they can glide from one tree to another on a flap of furry skin. The question is in How animals move and the sounds they make.
What age are these animal questions for?
About 5 to 10. The wording is short enough to read aloud, every question has three choices, and the reason given with each answer is one or two short sentences.