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Nature Interpretation Practice Test #18



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

 1. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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a.
Minnow Trap
c.
Bottom-sampling Dredge
b.
Aerial Net
d.
Soil Analysis Sieve
 

 2. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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a.
Transit
c.
Seine
b.
Range Poles
d.
Drafting Instruments
 

 3. 

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

 4. 

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
 

 5. 

What is this plant?

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a.
Mayapple
c.
Dutchman’s Breeches
b.
Common St. Johnswort
d.
Squirrel Corn
 

 6. 

What is the name of this plant?

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a.
Joe Pyeweed
c.
New England Aster
b.
Ironweed
d.
Tall Meadow Rue
 

 7. 

What is the name of this mammal?

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a.
Coyote
c.
Red Fox
b.
Gray Fox
d.
Little Brown Myotis
 

 8. 

What is the name of this mammal?

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a.
Badger
b.
Woodchuck
c.
Muskrat
d.
Beaver
 

 9. 

Long-winged birds of prey that hung other birds, such as waterfowl, in open country....
a.
falcons
b.
accipiters
c.
cache
d.
diving ducks
 

 10. 

A scientist who studies fishes.
a.
ichthyologist
b.
herpetologist
c.
margayist
d.
aquaculturist
 

 11. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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a.
Sling Psychrometer
c.
Acreage Grid
b.
Drafting Instruments
d.
Survey Chain
 

 12. 

What is the name of this bird?

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a.
Downy Woodpecker
c.
Red-bellied Woodpecker
b.
White-breasted Nuthatch
d.
Black and White Warbler
 

 13. 

The order of birds including ducks, geese, and swans...
a.
accipiters
b.
anadromous
c.
anseriforms
d.
buteos
 

 14. 

This is the skull of what mammal?

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a.
Eastern Fox Squirrel
c.
House Mouse
b.
Gray Squirrel
d.
Hoary Bat
 

 15. 

What is the name of this mammal?

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a.
Badger
c.
Gray Squirrel
b.
Gray Fox
d.
Raccoon
 

 16. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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a.
Fire Pump
c.
Drip Torch
b.
Water Sampler
d.
Seine
 

 17. 

This is the skull of what mammal?

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a.
Eastern Woodrat
c.
Eastern Chipmunk
b.
Starnose Mole
d.
Red Squirrel
 

 18. 

The period of time from conception to birth...
a.
gestation
b.
gravid
c.
lactation
d.
precocial
 

 19. 

What is the name of this amphibian?

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

 20. 

What is the name of this plant?

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a.
Purple Loosestrife
c.
Wild Lupine
b.
Purple Cress
d.
Teasel
 

 21. 

What is the name of this amphibian?

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

 22. 

What is the name of this mammal?

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a.
Little Brown Myotis
c.
Big Brown Bat
b.
Hoary Bat
d.
Eastern Woodrat
 

 23. 

What is the name of this amphibian?

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a.
Red Salamander
c.
Red-spotted Newt
b.
Red-backed Salamander
d.
Spotted Salamander
 

 24. 

One animal having two or more mates or indiscriminately mating without forming pairs...
a.
polygamy
b.
monogamy
c.
spawn
d.
sessile
 

 25. 

What is the name of this piece of equipment?

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



 
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