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Nature Interpretation Practice Test #14



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

 1. 

A whisker or feeler that is located on the lips of certain fishes such as catfishes.
a.
beard
b.
biome
c.
barbel
d.
auklet
 

 2. 

Active at twilight of before sunrise...
a.
nocturnal
b.
diurnal
c.
crepuscular
d.
estivation
 

 3. 

A warm-blooded animal that obtains its body heat from the metabolism of its food.
a.
endotherm
b.
ectotherm
c.
radiotherm
d.
envirotherm
 

 4. 

What is the name of this bird?

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a.
Common Yellowthroat
c.
Eastern Meadowlark
b.
Hooded Warbler
d.
Magnolia Warbler
 

 5. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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a.
Sling Psychrometer
c.
Anemometer
b.
Dissolved Oxygen Meter
d.
Carbon Monoxide Tester
 

 6. 

What is the name of this reptile?

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a.
Eastern Massasauga
c.
Eastern Massasauga
b.
Northern Copperhead
d.
Northern Water Snake
 

 7. 

What is the name of this amphibian?

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a.
Hellbender
c.
Spotted Salamander
b.
Mudpuppy
d.
Small-mouthed Salamander
 

 8. 

What is the name of this reptile?

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a.
Common Snapping Turtle
c.
Midland Painted Turtle
b.
Smooth Softshell
d.
Eastern Box Turtle
 

 9. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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a.
Drafting Instruments
c.
Soil Test Kit
b.
Water Test Kit
d.
Carbon Monoxide Tester
 

 10. 

This is the skull of what mammal?

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a.
Mink
c.
Longtail Weasel
b.
River Otter
d.
Striped Skunk
 

 11. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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a.
Post Hole Digger
c.
Snake Hook
b.
Shovel
d.
Axe
 

 12. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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a.
Live Animal Trap
c.
Conibear Trap
b.
Minnow Trap
d.
Steel Spring Trap
 

 13. 

What is the name of this amphibian?

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a.
Green Frog
c.
Gray Tree Frog
b.
Spring Peeper
d.
Western Chorus Frog
 

 14. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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a.
Seine
c.
Sharpening Stone
b.
Dessicator
d.
Transit
 

 15. 

Without a stalk...
a.
sessile
b.
herbaceous
c.
spathe
d.
stamen
 

 16. 

What is the name of this bird?

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a.
Field Sparrow
c.
House Wren
b.
American Goldfinch
d.
Common Yellowthroat
 

 17. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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a.
Hand Compass
c.
Sound Level Meter
b.
Hand Lens
d.
Tally Meter
 

 18. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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a.
Survey Pins
c.
Range Poles
b.
Flow Meter
d.
Seine
 

 19. 

What is the name of this bird?

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a.
Pileated Woodpecker
c.
Red-headed Woodpecker
b.
Downy Woodpecker
d.
Pileated Woodpecker
 

 20. 

What is the name of this bird?

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a.
Common Yellowthroat
c.
American Goldfinch
b.
Hooded Warbler
d.
House Sparrow
 

 21. 

A tendency of newts and other organisms to metamorphose directly to the sexually mature adult stage from the larval stage, without entering a land-based stage of development.
a.
eft
b.
elapid
c.
neotenic
d.
niche
 

 22. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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a.
Hand Level
c.
Binoculars
b.
Spotting Scope
d.
Transit
 

 23. 

What is the name of this bird?

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a.
Song Sparrow
c.
Cedar Waxwing
b.
Common Yellowthroat
d.
American Goldfinch
 

 24. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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a.
Drip Torch
c.
Soil Probe
b.
Sling Psychrometer
d.
Transit
 

 25. 

This is the skull of what mammal?

mc025-1.jpg
a.
Whitetail Deer
c.
Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
b.
White-footed Mouse
d.
Big Brown Bat
 



 
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