camel
Camels tolerate heat, drought, and scarce water. This topic is part of Animals within Science & Nature. This page currently draws on 11 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
camel trivia questions
Camels are especially adapted to life in what environment?
Answer: Deserts
Bonus fact: Camels tolerate heat, drought, and scarce water.
What is stored in a camel's hump?
Answer: Fat
Bonus fact: Camel humps store fat that can be metabolized for energy.
Which camel species has two humps?
Answer: Bactrian camel
Bonus fact: Bactrian camels have two humps; dromedaries have one.
Alpacas belong to the same animal family as llamas and camels. Which family?
Answer: Camelidae
Bonus fact: Camelidae includes camels, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos.
A camel's hump stores mainly what?
Answer: Fat
Bonus fact: Camel humps are fat reserves.
Using stored fat can provide camels with energy and also produce what metabolically?
Answer: Water
Bonus fact: Oxidizing fat yields metabolic water.
Which camel is distinguished from the one-humped dromedary by having two humps?
Answer: Bactrian camel
Bonus fact: Dromedaries have one hump.
Which animal was especially important to desert caravans on trade routes?
Answer: Camel
Bonus fact: Camels carried people and goods across arid regions.
A llama is what type of animal?
Answer: Camelid
Bonus fact: Llamas are South American relatives of camels.
Which animal was especially important to desert caravan trade?
Answer: Camel
Bonus fact: Camels tolerate heat and long periods with limited water.
Which animal revolutionized trans-Saharan trade because of its desert endurance?
Answer: Camel
Bonus fact: Camel caravans could cross long arid stretches.