Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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The lower shell of a turtle or tortoise.
a. | carapace | b. | polliwag | c. | plastron | d. | scute |
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What is the name of this amphibian? a. | American Toad | c. | Spring Peeper | b. | Gray Tree Frog | d. | Fowler’s
Toad |
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What is the name of this piece of equipment? a. | pH Meter | c. | Sling Psychrometer | b. | Sound Level Meter | d. | Carbon Monoxide
Tester |
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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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What is the name of this plant? a. | Blue Phlox | c. | Common Blue Violet | b. | Ironweed | d. | Chicory |
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What is the name of this reptile? a. | Midland Painted Turtle | c. | Blanding’s Turtle | b. | Eastern Box
Turtle | d. | Eastern Spiny
Softshell |
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What is the name of this bird? a. | Long-eared Owl | c. | Great Horned Owl | b. | Screech Owl | d. | Barred Owl |
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What is the name of this piece of equipment? a. | Dissolved Oxygen Meter | c. | Tally Meter | b. | Carbon Monoxide Meter | d. | Flow Meter |
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Reproducing from eggs that remain inside the female until they have
hatched.
a. | gregarious | c. | ovoviviparous | b. | oviparous | d. | salmoidous |
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What is the name of this bird? a. | Osprey | c. | Cooper’s Hawk | b. | American Kestrel | d. | Red-tailed Hawk |
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What is the name of this amphibian? a. | Fowler’s Toad | c. | American Toad | b. | Gray Tree Frog | d. | Northern Leopard
Frog |
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What is the name of this mammal? a. | Eastern Fox Squirrel | c. | Eastern Gray Squirrel | b. | Eastern
Chipmunk | d. | Red
Squirrel |
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Reproducing by laying eggs that develop and hatch outside the female’s
body.
a. | gregarious | c. | ovoviviparous | b. | oviparous | d. | salmoidous |
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What is the name of this reptile? a. | Eastern Massasauga | c. | Fox Snake | b. | Northern Copperhead | d. | Eastern Milk
Snake |
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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. | House Mouse | c. | Least Shrew | b. | Short-tailed Shrew | d. | Meadow Vole |
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What is the name of this bird? a. | Red-bellied Woodpecker | c. | Downy Woodpecker | b. | Common Flicker | d. | Pileated
Woodpecker |
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What is the name of this piece of equipment? a. | Binoculars | c. | Transit | b. | Hand Level | d. | Spotting Scope |
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What is the name of this piece of equipment? a. | Secchi Disk | c. | Hand Compass | b. | Sling Psychrometer | d. | Bottom Sampling
Dredge |
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What is the name of this bird? a. | Cedar Waxwing | c. | Cardinal | b. | Crested Flycatcher | d. | Tufted Titmouse |
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What is the name of this piece of equipment? a. | Post-hole Digger | c. | Shovel | b. | Spade | d. | Soil Sampler |
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What is the name of this piece of equipment? a. | Water Sampler | c. | Bottom-sampling Dredge | b. | Flow
Meter | d. | Soil
Sampler |
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What is the name of this amphibian? a. | Red Salamander | c. | Hellbender | b. | Mudpuppy | d. | Small-mouthed
Salamander |
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This is the skull of what mammal? a. | Eastern Fox Squirrel | c. | Meadow Vole | b. | House Mouse | d. | Thirteen-lined Ground
Squirrel |
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This is the skull of what mammal? a. | Woodchuck | c. | Eastern Fox Squirrel | b. | Muskrat | d. | Meadow Vole |
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