Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
|
|
|
1.
|
Which animal does not have
teeth?
a. | Five-lined
skink | b. | Eastern Garter Snake | c. | Hellbender | d. | Common Snapping Turtle | e. | Only Hellbender AND Common Snapping
Turtle |
|
|
|
2.
|
Which statement is true about
the coloration of screech owls?
a. | Males are reddish, females are
grayish | b. | Females are grayish,males are reddish | c. | Juvenile are grayish, adults are
reddish | d. | Gray and red phases are found in both sexes and all
ages | e. | Grayish owls are found exclusively in southern
states. |
|
|
|
3.
|
Which bat seldom enters
caves?
a. | Little brown
bat | d. | All are common cave
dwellers | b. | Big brown | e. | none of these | c. | Hoary bat |
|
|
|
4.
|
Which turtle does not have
thirteen scutes?
a. | Eastern box
turtle | d. | Snapping
turtle | b. | Midland painted turtle | e. | All have 13 scutes | c. | Eastern spiny
softshell |
|
|
|
5.
|
Which is the largest turtle in
Ohio?
a. | Midland painted
turtle | d. | Eastern spiny
softshell | b. | Eastern box turtle | e. | Spotted turtle | c. | Snapping turtle |
|
|
|
6.
|
Which venomous snake is found
in unglaciated Ohio?
a. | Timber
rattlesnake | d. | Lake Erie
Watersnake | b. | Eastern Massasauga | e. | Eastern hognose | c. | Cottonmouth |
|
|
|
7.
|
What is the recommended
placement for gray squirrel nest boxes?
a. | No more than 20” above the
ground with the hold facing to the
northwest.
| b. | At least 30” above the
ground facing east or south. | c. | In a tree with at least a 24”
diameter. | d. | At least 50” in a tree. | e. | At least 20” above the ground facing
west. |
|
|
|
8.
|
What does hoary
mean?
a. | Old | d. | Covered in fine hair | b. | Covered in coarse hair | e. | None of these | c. | Silver-tipped, like frost |
|
|
|
9.
|
Which tool is used to measure
wind speed?
a. | Secchi
disk | c. | Anemometer | e. | Aerial net | b. | Psychrometer | d. | Hand lens |
|
|
|
10.
|
Which bird displays sexual
dimorphism?
a. | Chickadee | d. | American kestrel | b. | Eastern bluebird | e. | Broad-winged hawk | c. | Screech owl |
|
|
|
11.
|
What signals a bird to begin
migration?
a. | Temperature | b. | Length of sunlight | c. | Lack of food | d. | All of these are correct | e. | Only Temperature AND Length of
sunlight |
|
|
|
12.
|
Which is true in comparing the
Eastern woodrat with the Norway rat?
a. | Neither are particular about what
they eat | b. | Eastern woodrats have a hairy tail;Norway rats have a white
belly | c. | Eastern woodrats have a gray belly;Norway rats have a white
belly | d. | Both rats are nuisances spreading | e. | Both Eastern woodrats have a hairy tail;Norway rats have a
white belly AND Eastern woodrats have a gray belly;Norway rats have a white belly are
true |
|
|
|
13.
|
Which is true about
Great-horned owls?
a. | They always nest in hollow tree
cavities | c. | Their nests are
never made of sticks | b. | They nest in the January | d. | The male does not assist in
nesting |
|
|
|
14.
|
What is Ohio’s state
fossil?
a. | Fern | c. | Trilobite | e. | Cephalopod | b. | Horn coral | d. | Gastropod |
|
|
|
15.
|
Which is not a favorite food of
mink?
a. | Frogs | c. | Insects | e. | Roots | b. | Muskrats | d. | Mice |
|
|
|
16.
|
What regulates antler growth in
deer?
a. | hormones | d. | only hormones AND nutrition | b. | nutrition | e. | only hormones AND climate | c. | climate |
|
|
|
17.
|
Which animal is very common,
but rarely seen because of its nocturnal habits?
a. | Eastern
Woodrat | d. | Badger | b. | Hoary bat | e. | Shorttail shrew | c. | Southern Flying Squirrel |
|
|
|
18.
|
What is
anthropomorphism?
a. | process of changing into an adult
such as tadpole to frog | b. | illness that affects deer and other animals with
antlers | c. | assigning human traits and feelings to
animals | d. | carnivores preying on herbivores | e. | change in seasons from spring to summer to fall to
winter |
|
|
|
19.
|
Gestation refers to the length
of time an animal?
a. | is
pregnant | d. | is in
heat | b. | mates | e. | hibernates | c. | takes to mature |
|
|
|
20.
|
Which is an example of a
sere?
a. | An offspring leaving the nest before
it is ready. | b. | Natural succession from field to forest. | c. | A management technique in which habitat is broken into
smaller sections for better use by animals. | d. | Destruction of habitat through
vandalism. | e. | Burning a prairie to remove woody
vegetation. |
|
|
|
21.
|
What is the color of the fruits
of Jack-in-the-Pulpit?
a. | blue | c. | white | e. | yellow | b. | red | d. | purple |
|
|
|
22.
|
Which is an adaptation of birds
that make them lighter so that they can more easily fly?
a. | Air sacs are found in their bodies
and attached to their lungs | b. | They lack a urinary bladder | c. | They have hollow bones | d. | All are the correct
answer | e. | None are the correct answer |
|
|
|
23.
|
Which bird is a
scavenger?
a. | Cedar
waxwing | b. | Turkey vulture | c. | Brown-headed cowbird | d. | Black and white warbler | e. | Turkey vulture AND Brown-headed
cowbird |
|
|
|
24.
|
How were granite boulders found
in Ohio naturally deposited?
a. | Prehistoric volcanic
eruptions | b. | Mound-building Indians | c. | Continental drift | d. | Glacial action | e. | Prehistoric rivers that flowed north through
Ohio |
|
|
|
25.
|
Which is not true about
violets?
a. | The flowers can be
purple,blue,yellow,white or green | b. | The leaves are edible | c. | Most of the visible flowers are
sterile | d. | They are alien species,not native to Ohio | e. | The flowers can be purple,blue yellow white or green and
the leaves are edible |
|
|
|
26.
|
What color is a Tree
swallow?
a. | All white below dark
above | b. | Rusty below,dark above | c. | White breast,rusty below,dark
above | d. | Rusty below,dark above except for orange
rump | e. | Dark above and below except for orange
rump |
|
|
|
27.
|
Which bird has a flute-like
song and is commonly found in fields and fence rows?
a. | Tufted
titmouse | d. | Common
Flicker | b. | Meadowlark | e. | Blue Jay | c. | Cedar waxing |
|
|
|
28.
|
Which direction should the
opening of a bluebird box face?
a. | Northwest | d. | West | b. | South | e. | Away from the
wood | c. | Southeast |
|
|
|
29.
|
The milkweed plant is the main
food source for which insect larvae?
a. | Tiger
Swallowtail | d. | Luna
moth | b. | Monarch | e. | Great Spangled Fritillary | c. | Lchnuemon
wasp |
|
|
|
30.
|
Which bird has a song that
sounds like a ping-pong ball dropping, getting faster and faster at the end?
a. | House
Sparrow | d. | Tree
Swallow | b. | Field Sparrow | e. | American goldfinch | c. | Common
Yellowthroat |
|
|
|
31.
|
Which plant is able to warm is
environment allowing it to bloom even in snow?
a. | Large-flowered
trillium | d. | Skunk
cabbage | b. | Round-lobed hepatica | e. | Dutchmen’s Breeches | c. | purple cress |
|
|
|
32.
|
Which fern has a very dark,
fine stem that is a curved and palmately branched?
a. | Christmas
fern | d. | Bracken
fern | b. | Grape fern | e. | Chicory | c. | Maidenhair fern |
|
|
|
33.
|
Which list of the following is
Not on the endangered species list?
a. | Hellbender | d. | Eastern Massasauga | b. | Lake Erie Watersnake | e. | Timber rattlesnake | c. | Brown snake |
|
Matching
|
|
|
Match the animal with its
correct grouping. a. | Marsupial | d. | Rodent | b. | Insectivore | e. | None of these match | c. | Carnivore |
|
|
|
34.
|
Meadow
vole
|
|
|
35.
|
Opossum
|
|
|
36.
|
Thirteen-lined ground
squirrel
|
|
|
37.
|
Red fox
|
|
|
38.
|
White-tailed
deer
|