Animal Quiz, Which Animals Lay Eggs?

You might be surprised!

Short Description:

You might be surprised at some animals that lay eggs instead of live young.

Test your knowledge with this fun tickbox quiz.

The animals are listed on the left. Tick Yes if you think they lay eggs, and no if not.

Directions for Caregivers:

In this fun quiz, guessing is the order of the day. It doesn’t matter if you get it right or wrong; giving your opinion is what matters!

This is a super animal quiz group activity, as everyone gets to offer an opinion on the answers.

You might want to do it as an animal quiz whiteboard game and write the animal names on the board one at a time.

Give the quiz a go; Google some of the animals and chat about their habits and habitats.

For example, how long is the gestation period of a giraffe? (it’s around 15 months)

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Here are some fun facts about eggs:

  • “The U.S. produced over 90 billion eggs a year.
  • An egg’s shell has about 17,000 tiny pores on the surface of the shell.
  • A hen requires about 24 to 26 hours to produce one egg.
  • Around 2/3 of chicken eggs produced in the U.S. each year are sold in the shell. The other 1/3 break or are too flawed to sell in the shell.
  • Why 12? The reason for packaging eggs by the dozen may date back to a payment system in England in the first century. Eggs were traditionally sold for a penny or 12 for a shilling, which was equal to 12 pennies.
  • Young hens produce smaller eggs; i.e., medium eggs come from younger hens. And if you’ve ever come across a double yolk, that is simply two medium eggs that merged together and came from a young hen that is just learning how to lay eggs.
  • The shells of smaller eggs are thicker than the shells of larger eggs. This makes them easier to peel when they’re hard-boiled.”
  • Animals that lay eggs are called oviparous. Fertilization is either internal or external, but the eggs hatch in an external environment, not the mother's womb.”

Fact source: http://www.foodreference.com/html/feggs.html

Would you like another egg activity? Click here for an egg word search.

And here is another animal quiz question from our YouTube Channel.