Name: 
 

2005 Marysville Invitational Wildlife Management Test


Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 
Which of the following best describes the beaver?
a.
It is an insectivore
d.
It is a carnivore
b.
It is a rodent
e.
All are true for the beaver
c.
It is a marsupial
 

 2. 
Which member of the salmon family does not have spots on it’s caudal fin?
a.
Brown Trout
d.
Rainbow Trout
b.
Chinook Salmon
e.
All have spots on the caudal fin
c.
Coho Salmon
 

 3. 
Which of the is the least common sunfish in Ohio?
a.
Bluegill
d.
Pumpkinseed Sunfish
b.
Green Sunfish
e.
Warmouth Sunfish
c.
Longear Sunfish
 

 4. 

Which of the following is an evergreen?
a.
Bush clover
c.
Bittersweet
e.
Cattail
b.
Partridgeberry
d.
Aspen
 

 5. 
Which of the following produces an umbel?
a.
Timothy
d.
Sumac
b.
Queen Anne’s Lace
e.
Bulrush
c.
Bindweed
 

 6. 
Which of the following is classified as a monocotyledon?
a.
Timothy
c.
Yarrow
e.
Purple Loosestrife
b.
Bush Clover
d.
Elderberry
 

 7. 
Which of the following has opposite leaves?
a.
Orchard grass
c.
Bindweed
e.
Beech
b.
Red clover
d.
Dogwood
 

 8. 
This sorghum has a fruiting cluster one foot long and six inches wide, it’s spikelets bear awns, and it is an annual:
a.
Orchard grass
c.
Timothy
e.
Bush clover
b.
Sudan grass
d.
Green amaranth
 

 9. 
Which list of species are desirable plants for attracting wildlife?
a.
Mulitflora rose, maple, fescue
b.
Grape, fescue, purple loosestrife
c.
Switch grass, red clover, fescue
d.
Poison ivy, sunflower, blackberry
e.
Purple loosestrife, sunflower, blackberry
 

 10. 
The fruits on this tree are a favorite food of songbirds, particularly robins and cedar waxwings. The green fruits ripen to a pale blue.
a.
Eastern hemlock
c.
Elderberry
e.
Eastern red cedar
b.
Autumn olive
d.
Aspen
 

 11. 
There are ______ wildlife districts in Ohio.
a.
1
b.
2
c.
3
d.
4
e.
5
 

 12. 
What is the name of the only national forest located in Ohio?
a.
Redwoods National Forest
d.
Wayne National Forest
b.
Big Bend National Forest
e.
Table Rock National Forest
c.
Oak Openings National Forest
 

 13. 
What state agency controls public hunting and fishing areas in Ohio?
a.
Division of Wildlife
c.
Division of Hunting and Fishing
b.
Division of Forestry
d.
Division of Parks and Recreation
 

 14. 
This wild turkey has a blue head and lacks red wattles:
a.
Female
d.
Immature
b.
Male
e.
Does not indicate age or sex
c.
Mature
 

 15. 
Nationwide, more ___________ are harvested each year than all species of waterfowl combined.
a.
American Crow
d.
Mourning Dove
b.
Ring-necked Pheasant
e.
Wild turkey
c.
Ruffed Grouse
 

 16. 
How many acres of habitat -- shrubs, grasses and hardwood or evergreen trees -- are required to support each ruffed grouse?
a.
2-4 acres
b.
5-10 acres
c.
12-15 acres
d.
20-40 acres
e.
30-60 acres
 

 17. 
What is the name of the appendage that turkey hunters must identify before harvesting a turkey?
a.
Beard
c.
Spur
e.
Spattella
b.
Frontal Crest
d.
Waddle
 

 18. 
The peak months for mating of the Canada Goose are:
a.
January and February
d.
April and May
b.
February and March
e.
May and June
c.
March and April
 

 19. 
Which of the following is most likely to be found along Ohio’s unglaciated plateau?
a.
Ring-necked Pheasant
c.
Bald Eagle
e.
Canada Goose
b.
Ruffed Grouse
d.
Wood Duck
 

 20. 
Which of the following animals are monogamous?
a.
Ruffed Grouse
d.
Ringneck Pheasant
b.
Canada Goose
e.
All of these are correct
c.
Wild Turkey
 

 21. 
These early migrators are not regarded as good table birds, because 1/3 of their diet is animal matter.
a.
Gadwall
c.
Black Duck
e.
Wood Duck
b.
Northern Shoveler
d.
Pintail
 

 22. 
This mole has a range farther north than any otter mole in North America:
a.
Eastern Mole
c.
Meadow vole
e.
Least shrew
b.
Short-tailed shrew
d.
Star-nosed mole
 

 23. 
The primary food for this mammal is muskrat:
a.
Badger
c.
Mink
e.
Longtail Weasel
b.
Beaver
d.
River Otter
 

 24. 
This polygamous mammal has a 28-30 day gestation period and up to 5 litters per year. Average litter size is 5 offspring. Its life expectancy of less than 1 year.
a.
Opossum
c.
Rabbit
e.
Hoary Bat
b.
Red Squirrel
d.
Least Shrew
 

 25. 
Which animal is strictly diurnal?
a.
Bobcat
d.
Skunk
b.
Least Weasel
e.
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
c.
Mink
 

 26. 
Which two animals provide most of the tracks one finds in the winter snow?
a.
Shorttail shrew and Virginia opossum
d.
Woodchuck and Gray fox
b.
Meadow vole and White-footed mouse
e.
Raccoon and Muskrat
c.
Southern flying squirrel and White- footed mouse
 

 27. 
Which usually produces two litters per year?
a.
Raccoon
d.
Meadow vole
b.
Cottontail rabbit
e.
Both Cottontail rabbit and Muskrat
c.
Muskrat
 

 28. 
Which animal is closely related to weasels?
a.
Striped skunk
d.
13-lined Ground Squirrel
b.
Meadow vole
e.
Red fox
c.
Raccoon
 

 29. 
The average home range of the White-tailed deer in Ohio is:
a.
15 acres or less
d.
50-100 acres
b.
15-25 acres
e.
more than 100 acres
c.
25-50 acres
 

 30. 
Which is the most common bat in Ohio?
a.
Big Brown Bat
d.
Little Brown Miotis
b.
Eastern Pipistrel
e.
All are about the same.
c.
Hoary Bat
 

Matching
 
 
a.
Carp
b.
Bowfin
c.
Brown Trout
d.
Channel Catfish
e.
Lamprey
 

 31. 
Which fish has a sucking type disc mouth?
 

 32. 
Which fish may legally be caught by snagging?
 

 33. 
Which popular food and game fish is well distributed throughout Ohio?
 

 34. 
Which fish is well adapted to cold, running water in streams?
 
 
a.
Covert
b.
Speculum
c.
Mandible
d.
Plumage
e.
Chevron
 

 35. 
A colored patch on the inner wing of ducks.
 

 36. 
The upper or lower part of the bill.
 

 37. 
Small feathers that overlap the bases of the larger feathers on the wings and tail are the ____________ feathers.
 

 38. 
The complete set of a bird’s feathers at a given time.
 
 
a.
Estuarine
b.
Palustrine
c.
Marine
d.
Lacustrine
e.
Riverine
 

 39. 
Marshes, swamps and bogs
 

 40. 
Wetlands associated with lakes
 

 41. 
Wetlands found along rivers and streams
 

 42. 
Tidal marshes
 
 
a.
Rainbow trout
b.
American eel
c.
Yellow bullhead
d.
Bluegill
e.
Coho salmon
 

 43. 
This fish has the scientific name Ictalurus natalis
 

 44. 
This fish has the scientific name Salmo gairdneri
 

 45. 
This fish has the scientific name Anguilla rostrata
 

 46. 
This fish has the scientific name Lepomis macrochirus
 
 
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a.
Tolerant to pollution
b.
Tolerates some pollution
c.
Intolerant to pollution
 

 47. 
Midge
 

 48. 
Mayfly
 

 49. 
Rat-tailed Maggot
 

 50. 
Damselfly
 



 
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