Frog or Toad? The Commonly Confused Animals Quiz

Frogs live for water, which helps keep their skin smooth and moist. Toads prefer dry land to water-based living, resulting in drier skin that's often rough and bumpy. For the record, neither will give you warts if you pick them up.

It's never a good idea to approach an alligator or crocodile -- they might attack! Identify them from a distance. Gators have wide, rounded snouts and no visible teeth when they close their mouths. Crocodiles have a pointy snout and a single, sharp tooth that juts out on either side even when the mouth is closed.

Turtles live in the water and use their webbed feet for swimming. Tortoises live on land, and have small sturdy toes built for strolling slowly across the landscape.

Unlike the porpoise, a dolphin can communicate by whistling through its blowhole, resulting in plenty of noise, even underwater. In addition, dolphins tend to be slimmer than porpoises, and have longer beaks and dorsal fins that curve.

Cheetahs have sharp black lines running from the corners of the eyes down the nose -- you won't find these on leopards. Prefer to tell them apart at a distance? While cheetahs have round, solid black spots, leopards have rose-shaped clusters of spots that range from brown to black.

Wasps are drawn to sweet beverages, meat and other picnic favorites. Bees prefer to nosh on nectar and pollen, and have no interest in your soda.

The sea lion can "walk" using his powerful front flippers, while seals are resigned to slithering on their bellies. Looking for other ways to tell these creatures apart? It's all in the ears! Sea lions have floppy little ears that stick out, while seal ears aren't much more than tiny openings in the sides of their heads.

Llamas are twice the size of alpacas, and have distinctive banana-shaped ears that helps to distinguish them from the straighter ears of the alpaca.

Lizards are reptiles, and prefer dry land while salamanders are amphibians and thrive in moist places. A newt is a type of salamander.

Geckos are a special type of lizard known for their sticky toe pads, which allow them to walk straight up walls or across the ceiling.