Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that
best completes the statement or answers the question.
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The collective term for the
sepals of a flower, usually green...
a. | corolla | b. | calyx | c. | stamen | d. | sessile |
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Without a
stalk...
a. | sessile
| b. | herbaceous
| c. | spathe | d. | stamen |
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Rivers that contain both fresh
and salt water, includes estuaries, tidal basins, and some bays...
a. | brackish | b. | piscivorous | c. | omnivorous | d. | anadromous |
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A young
goose.
a. | duckling | b. | cygnet | c. | gosling | d. | chick |
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Of or having to do with
lakes...
a. | lacustrine | b. | hypolimnon | c. | niche | d. | lactation |
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Having to do with
birds...
a. | avian | b. | catkins | c. | coulee | d. | roosts |
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A tiny fish that has recently
hatched from an egg.
a. | fledgling | b. | keel | c. | fingerling | d. | fry |
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The middle layer or density
barrier in deeper lakes or ponds; prevents nutrients and oxygen from mixing...
a. | hypolimnon | b. | thermocline | c. | edge effect | d. | speculum |
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Molting or shedding an outer
layer of skin.
a. | caiman | b. | ecdysis | c. | clutch | d. | diploid |
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That area that an animal uses
to find food, water and cover is referred to as its....
a. | carrying capacity
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range | b. | eiotic pyramid | d. | biotic potential |
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A bract or pair of bracts,
often large, enclosing the flower...
a. | spawn | b. | calyx | c. | stamen | d. | spathe |
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A muscular organ in the
digestive tracts of birds, reptiles and other organisms that use small rocks and pebbles to grind
food into small particles.
a. | crop | b. | caviar | c. | gizzard | d. | fauna |
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Animals that are found in a
particular region or environment.
a. | botany | b. | flora | c. | family | d. | fauna |
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A young
swan.
a. | duckling | b. | cygnet | c. | gosling | d. | chick |
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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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A warm-blooded animal that
obtains its body heat from the metabolism of its food.
a. | endotherm | b. | ectotherm | c. | radiotherm | d. | envirotherm |
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Birds which hatch helpless,
usually naked, with eyes closed and are totally dependent on their parents...
a. | buteos | b. | alitricial | c. | precocial | d. | neonate |
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One animal having two or more
mates or indiscriminately mating without forming pairs...
a. | polygamy | b. | monogamy | c. | spawn | d. | sessile |
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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 |
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Collective term for the petals
of a flower....
a. | calyx | b. | corolla | c. | stamen | d. | leaf |
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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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One type of wildlife living in,
on, or with another type but without helping or harming it...
a. | commensalism | b. | mutualism | c. | riparian | d. | estivation |
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A lake that is deep, cool, and
rich in oxygen is called...
a. | hypolimnon | b. | thermocline | c. | oligotrophic | d. | epilimnon |
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Environmental conditions that
prevent of restrict a population from increasing in the numbers...
a. | limiting factors
| c. | biotic
potential | b. | home range | d. | carrying capacity |
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A small flock of quail or
partridges that are often members of the same family group.
a. | cud | b. | cygnet | c. | covey | d. | demersal |
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