Multiple Choice Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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An animal that eats primarily meat is called:
a. | omnivore | b. | carnivore | c. | herbivore | d. | raptorial | e. | herbaceous |
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Which is a non-renewable resource?
a. | forests | d. | All of these are correct. | b. | wildlife | e. | None of these are correct. | c. | soils |
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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 |
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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 |
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The root of this plant is sometimes used as coffee substitute:
a. | nightshade | b. | yarrow | c. | squirrel corn | d. | chicory | e. | mayapple |
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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 |
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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 |
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Delayed implantations exhibited by all of the following except:
a. | Big Brown Bat | c. | Striped Skunk | e. | Mink | b. | Least
Weasel | d. | Beaver |
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The greatest number of different kinds of salamanders occur in:
a. | Asia | c. | Madagascar | e. | South America | b. | Europe | d. | North America |
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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 |
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Matching
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Match the terms to their definitions. a. | Mental Gland | d. | Boss | b. | Cusp | e. | Plastron | c. | Carapace |
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The lower shell of a turtle.
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A pointed tooth-like projection on the upper jaw of some turtles.
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The rounded knob on top of the head between the eyes of certain toads.
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The upper shell of a turtle.
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Match the following: a. | Accidental | d. | Rare | b. | Casual | e. | Introduced | c. | Extirpated |
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Single, or a very small number, of scattered records of a species, no
established pattern of occurrence:
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Not native to the area, deliberately released:
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Not observed annually in an area, but has established an apparent pattern of
occurrence:
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Formerly had established populations in an area, but is no longer in that area,
yet still present elsewhere:
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Match the following: a. | Sessile | d. | Stamen | b. | Spathe | e. | Corolla | c. | Calyx |
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A bract or pair of bracts, often large, enclosing the flower:
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Without a stalk:
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The male organ of a flower, composed of a filament topped by an anther, usually
several in each flower:
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Collective term for the sepals of a flower, usually green:
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Match the following: a. | American Robin | d. | Northern
Cardinal | b. | American Kestrel | e. | House Sparrow | c. | Tufted Titmouse |
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Which has the scientific name: Falco sparverius
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Which has the scientific name: Parus bicolor
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Which has the scientific name: Turdus migratorius
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Which has the scientific name: Passer domesticus
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Match the drawing to the correct insect part. a. | Simple eye | d. | Compound eye | b. | Tarsus | e. | Tympanum | c. | Spiracles |
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#20
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28.
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#18
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29.
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#19
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30.
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#17
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a. | gestation | d. | fertilization | b. | estrus | e. | lactation | c. | germination |
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The period of time in which the female animal is sexually receptive to a
male:
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32.
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The period of time from the conception to birth:
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33.
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The period of time in which a female mammal is producing milk for her
offspring:
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34.
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The time in mammals when a male sperm cell joins with a female egg to form a
zygote
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Match the following: a. | Common Flicker | d. | Red-winged
Blackbird | b. | Cedar Waxwing | e. | White-throat Sparrow | c. | Dark-eyed Junco |
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Female is buff colored with brown streaks, a buff-white eyebrow, and large
bill. Male all black with red wing patch.
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Pale pink bill, dark eye, white outer tail feathers. Male is charcoal-gray;
female is a more brownish-gray.
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Whitish central stripe down on crown, eyebrow white with yellow mark at front.
Female is more dull colored.
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Black spots on back, wings and breast, black necklace, red patch on nape, gray
crown, yellow under tail and wings.
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Match the following: a. | Raccoon | d. | Big Brown
Bat | b. | Muskrat | e. | Eastern Cottontail | c. | Opossum |
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On average, this mammal will have three litters per year, with two to ten young
per litter.
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This mammal has just one litter per year, with two to seven young per
litter.
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Usually just one litter per year, average litter size is nine, each young
weighing just one-fifteenth of an ounce.
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Usually has two litters per year, sometimes three, with an average of six
babies in each litter.
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Match the following terms to their definitions. a. | Altricial | d. | Polygamy | b. | Precocial | e. | Monogamy | c. | Polyandry |
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Describes young birds which are relatively well developed at hatching.
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44.
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Two animals mating only with each, other usually until their young are raised,
but sometimes for life.
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45.
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Birds which hatch helpless, usually naked, with eyes closed and totally
dependant on their parents.
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46.
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One animal having two or more mates or indiscriminately mating without forming
pairs.
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Match the following: a. | Butter-and-eggs | d. | Prairie
dock | b. | Evening primrose | e. | St. Johnswort | c. | Common Mullein |
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Yellow 1” long flowers, upper 2-lobed and lower lip 3-lobed, with orange
ridges and a nectar spur at base.
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Yellow ray flowers with 2-3” wide, numerous flower heads, heart shaped,
coarsely toothed basal leaves 1-2” long.
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49.
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Yellow 1-2: flower with cross shaped stigma, flowers open by twilight, close by
noon, lance shaped leaves.
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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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