Multiple Choice Identify the choice that
best completes the statement or answers the question.
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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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The period of time from
conception to birth...
a. | gestation | b. | gravid | c. | lactation | d. | precocial |
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3.
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A family of young
birds.
a. | covey | b. | crop | c. | botany | d. | brood |
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A scientist who studies
fishes.
a. | ichthyologist | b. | herpetologist | c. | margayist | d. | aquaculturist |
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Without a
stalk...
a. | sessile
| b. | herbaceous
| c. | spathe | d. | stamen |
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A nest of eggs or a brood of
chicks.
a. | caiman | b. | clutch | c. | ecdysis | d. | fauna |
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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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Fish that swim or
“run” upstream from the sea to spawn.
a. | egret | b. | anadromous | c. | cloaca | d. | forbs |
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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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Living in trees or adapted to
living in trees...
a. | aesthetic | b. | deciduous | c. | coulee | d. | arboreal |
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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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A scientist who studies
birds.
a. | ichthyologist | b. | herpetologist | c. | avianologist | d. | ornithologist |
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13.
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Having to do with
birds...
a. | avian | b. | catkins | c. | coulee | d. | roosts |
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A poisonous snake with fangs
that are permanently fixed in place.
a. | elapid | b. | gravid | c. | estuary | d. | estivation |
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A process in which an animal
loses its old outer covering such as feathers, skins, shells and so forth, and replaces them with new
ones.
a. | niche | b. | rut | c. | molt | d. | scrape |
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The animals of a region or
area...
a. | population | b. | niche | c. | fauna | d. | catkins |
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A young fish that is less than
one year old.
a. | fledgling | b. | keel | c. | fingerling | d. | fry |
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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 lower layer of a deep lake
or pond, often depleted of oxygen during the fall or winter months....
a. | lacustrine | b. | hypolimnon | c. | sessile | d. | thermocline |
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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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A protective outer coat of bony
or chitinous armor, such as the external covering of a turtle.
a. | ectotherm | b. | carapace | c. | dipper | d. | cygnet |
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To live on
land.
a. | terrestrial | b. | stratum | c. | viviparous | d. | territorial |
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A scientist who specializes in
the study of reptiles and amphibians.
a. | ichthyologist | b. | herpetologist | c. | ornithologist | d. | amphibianist |
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Producing many young; abundant
reproduction...
a. | optimum | c. | anadromous | b. | prolific | d. | carrying capacity |
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25.
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The plants that are found in a
particular region or environment.
a. | botany | b. | flora | c. | family | d. | fauna |
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