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2007 Marysville Invitational Nature Interpretation Test



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

 1. 

An animal that eats primarily meat is called:
a.
omnivore
b.
carnivore
c.
herbivore
d.
raptorial
e.
herbaceous
 

 2. 

Which is a non-renewable resource?
a.
forests
d.
All of these are correct.
b.
wildlife
e.
None of these are correct.
c.
soils
 

 3. 

The flowers of this plant have long, red, nectar-rich spurs, arranged alternately with colorful sepals. It blooms from April to July.
a.
butter and eggs
c.
daylily
e.
yellow goat’s beard
b.
butterfly weed
d.
columbine
 

 4. 

The leaves and roots of this plant are poisonous, but it produces a small, edible, yellowish lemon-like fruit, often called a “Mandranke”.
a.
bloodroot
d.
Indian cucumber root
b.
mayapple
e.
Jack-in-the-pulpit
c.
broad-leaved arrowhead
 

 5. 

The root of this plant is sometimes used as coffee substitute:
a.
nightshade
b.
yarrow
c.
squirrel corn
d.
chicory
e.
mayapple
 

 6. 

Which is the correct order of taxonomic classification?
a.
kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
b.
kingdom, phylum, class, family, order, genus species
c.
kingdom, phylum, class, family, order, species, genus
d.
phylum, family, class, order, kingdom, genus, species
e.
species, genus, kingdom, class, order, family, phylum
 

 7. 

The wise use of the earth’s natural resources (hunting, timber harvesting, farming) is called:
a.
preservation
c.
ecology
e.
succession
b.
conservation
d.
management
 

 8. 

Delayed implantations exhibited by all of the following except:
a.
Big Brown Bat
c.
Striped Skunk
e.
Mink
b.
Least Weasel
d.
Beaver
 

 9. 

The greatest number of different kinds of salamanders occur in:
a.
Asia
c.
Madagascar
e.
South America
b.
Europe
d.
North America
 

 10. 

What is the largest threat to the continued existence of all Ohio wildlife?
a.
Hunting
d.
Habitat Destruction
b.
Chemical Pollution
e.
Predator Population Increase
c.
Disease
 

Matching
 
 
Match the terms to their definitions.
a.
Mental Gland
d.
Boss
b.
Cusp
e.
Plastron
c.
Carapace
 

 11. 

The lower shell of a turtle.
 

 12. 

A pointed tooth-like projection on the upper jaw of some turtles.
 

 13. 

The rounded knob on top of the head between the eyes of certain toads.
 

 14. 

The upper shell of a turtle.
 
 
Match the following:
a.
Accidental
d.
Rare
b.
Casual
e.
Introduced
c.
Extirpated
 

 15. 

Single, or a very small number, of scattered records of a species, no established pattern of occurrence:
 

 16. 

Not native to the area, deliberately released:
 

 17. 

Not observed annually in an area, but has established an apparent pattern of occurrence:
 

 18. 

Formerly had established populations in an area, but is no longer in that area, yet still present elsewhere:
 
 
Match the following:
a.
Sessile
d.
Stamen
b.
Spathe
e.
Corolla
c.
Calyx
 

 19. 

A bract or pair of bracts, often large, enclosing the flower:
 

 20. 

Without a stalk:
 

 21. 

The male organ of a flower, composed of a filament topped by an anther, usually several in each flower:
 

 22. 

Collective term for the sepals of a flower, usually green:
 
 
Match the following:
a.
American Robin
d.
Northern Cardinal
b.
American Kestrel
e.
House Sparrow
c.
Tufted Titmouse
 

 23. 

Which has the scientific name: Falco sparverius
 

 24. 

Which has the scientific name: Parus bicolor
 

 25. 

Which has the scientific name: Turdus migratorius
 

 26. 

Which has the scientific name: Passer domesticus
 
 
Match the drawing to the correct insect part.

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a.
Simple eye
d.
Compound eye
b.
Tarsus
e.
Tympanum
c.
Spiracles
 

 27. 

#20
 

 28. 

#18
 

 29. 

#19
 

 30. 

#17
 
 
a.
gestation
d.
fertilization
b.
estrus
e.
lactation
c.
germination
 

 31. 

The period of time in which the female animal is sexually receptive to a male:
 

 32. 

The period of time from the conception to birth:
 

 33. 

The period of time in which a female mammal is producing milk for her offspring:
 

 34. 

The time in mammals when a male sperm cell joins with a female egg to form a zygote
 
 
Match the following:
a.
Common Flicker
d.
Red-winged Blackbird
b.
Cedar Waxwing
e.
White-throat Sparrow
c.
Dark-eyed Junco
 

 35. 

Female is buff colored with brown streaks, a buff-white eyebrow, and large bill. Male all black with red wing patch.
 

 36. 

Pale pink bill, dark eye, white outer tail feathers. Male is charcoal-gray; female is a more brownish-gray.
 

 37. 

Whitish central stripe down on crown, eyebrow white with yellow mark at front. Female is more dull colored.
 

 38. 

Black spots on back, wings and breast, black necklace, red patch on nape, gray crown, yellow under tail and wings.
 
 
Match the following:
a.
Raccoon
d.
Big Brown Bat
b.
Muskrat
e.
Eastern Cottontail
c.
Opossum
 

 39. 

On average, this mammal will have three litters per year, with two to ten young per litter.
 

 40. 

This mammal has just one litter per year, with two to seven young per litter.
 

 41. 

Usually just one litter per year, average litter size is nine, each young weighing just one-fifteenth of an ounce.
 

 42. 

Usually has two litters per year, sometimes three, with an average of six babies in each litter.
 
 
Match the following terms to their definitions.
a.
Altricial
d.
Polygamy
b.
Precocial
e.
Monogamy
c.
Polyandry
 

 43. 

Describes young birds which are relatively well developed at hatching.
 

 44. 

Two animals mating only with each, other usually until their young are raised, but sometimes for life.
 

 45. 

Birds which hatch helpless, usually naked, with eyes closed and totally dependant on their parents.
 

 46. 

One animal having two or more mates or indiscriminately mating without forming pairs.
 
 
Match the following:
a.
Butter-and-eggs
d.
Prairie dock
b.
Evening primrose
e.
St. Johnswort
c.
Common Mullein
 

 47. 

Yellow 1” long flowers, upper 2-lobed and lower lip 3-lobed, with orange ridges and a nectar spur at base.
 

 48. 

Yellow ray flowers with 2-3” wide, numerous flower heads, heart shaped, coarsely toothed basal leaves 1-2” long.
 

 49. 

Yellow 1-2: flower with cross shaped stigma, flowers open by twilight, close by noon, lance shaped leaves.
 

 50. 

Yellow 3/4 - 1” flowers, dense spike only a few flowers open at a time, tiny hairs cover leaves and stem, biennial.
 



 
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