Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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A cold-blooded animal that depends on the surrounding environment for its body
heat.
a. | endotherm | b. | ectotherm | c. | radiotherm | d. | envirotherm |
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The tendency of some animals to prefer the company of their own kind, and to
spend their time together in flocks, colonies or herds.
a. | haploid | b. | gregarious | c. | homologous | d. | leptocephali |
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What is the name of this bird? a. | House Wren | c. | Killdeer | b. | Hummingbird | d. | Eastern
Kingbird |
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What is the name of this bird? a. | Brown-headed Cowbird | c. | European Starling | b. | Common Grackle | d. | Turkey Vulture |
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What is the name of this reptile? a. | Eastern Massasauga | c. | Northern Copperhead | b. | Timber Rattlesnake | d. | Brown Snake |
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A sensing organ located in the mouth of a snake that is used for
smelling.
a. | Phillip’s Organ | c. | Jacobson’s Organ | b. | Kirk’s
Organ | d. | Jacob’s
Organ |
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What is the name of this bird? a. | House Sparrow | c. | Eastern Bluebird | b. | House Wren | d. | American
Goldfinch |
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Food for animals, especially that taken by browsing or grazing...
a. | forbs | b. | fauna | c. | egret | d. | forage
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What is the name of this amphibian? a. | Spotted Salamander | c. | Jefferson’s Salamander | b. | Eastern
Newt | d. | Hellbender |
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When seasonal layers in a lake form, this is the name given to the top layer of
the lake...
a. | epilimnon | b. | thermolimnon | c. | oligotrophic | d. | hypolimnon |
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a. | Solomon’s Seal | c. | Spotted Touch-me-not | b. | Dutchman’s Breeches | d. | Wild Carrot |
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What is the name of this piece of equipment? a. | Fire Rake | c. | Snake Hook | b. | Shovel | d. | Dessicator |
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A large, bony plate that is found on the head, back or sides of an animal, such
as the outer covering of a sturgeon.
a. | plastron | b. | shad | c. | carapace | d. | scute |
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What is the name of this mammal? a. | Gray Fox | c. | Badger | b. | Coyote | d. | Red Fox |
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What is the name of this piece of equipment? a. | Carbon Monoxide Tester | c. | Sound Level Meter | b. | Dissolved Oxygen Meter | d. | Anemometer |
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What is the name of this mammal? a. | Coyote | b. | Gray Fox | c. | Red Fox | d. | Badger |
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A whisker or feeler that is located on the lips of certain fishes such as
catfishes.
a. | beard | b. | biome | c. | barbel | d. | auklet |
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This is the skull of what mammal? a. | Red Fox | c. | Whitetail Deer | b. | Gray Fox | d. | Coyote |
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A group of ecosystems within a region that have similar types of vegetation and
climatic conditions.
a. | biota | b. | biome | c. | biosphere | d. | aerie |
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What is the name of this reptile? a. | Eastern Massasauga | c. | Eastern Massasauga | b. | Northern Copperhead | d. | Northern Water
Snake |
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What is the name of this piece of equipment? a. | Drafting Instruments | c. | Transit | b. | Dessicator | d. | Tally Meter |
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What is the name of this bird? a. | Black-capped Chickadee | c. | House Wren | b. | Black and White Warbler | d. | Downy
Woodpecker |
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What is the name of this reptile? a. | Eastern Massasauga | c. | Five-lined Skink | b. | Hellbender | d. | Northern Fence
Lizard |
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The order of birds including ducks, geese, and swans...
a. | accipiters | b. | anadromous | c. | anseriforms | d. | buteos |
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Green and leaf-like in appearance or texture; relating to or characteristic of
an herb as distinguished from a woody plant; having green fleshy stems...
a. | sessile | b. | lacustrine | c. | hypolimnon | d. | herbaceous |
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