Multiple Choice Identify the choice that
best completes the statement or answers the question.
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The maximum number of offspring
an organism can produce under ideal conditions...
a. | biotic
potential | c. | balance of
nature | b. | hypolimnon | d. | gestation |
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The tendency of ecosystems to
reach a general state of equilibrium.
a. | balance of
nature | c. | carrying
capacity | b. | biotic potential | d. | anadromous |
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Collective term for the petals
of a flower....
a. | calyx | b. | corolla | c. | stamen | d. | leaf |
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Active during the daytime
rather than at night...
a. | nocturnal | b. | crepuscular | c. | commensalism | d. | diurnal |
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The period of time in which the
female is sexually receptive to a male...
a. | lactation | b. | estrus | c. | gravid | d. | conception |
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Long-winged birds of prey that
hung other birds, such as waterfowl, in open country....
a. | falcons | b. | accipiters | c. | cache | d. | diving ducks |
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Two species of wildlife that
live together for the benefit of both...
a. | parasitism | c. | commensalism | b. | mutualism | d. | polygamy |
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Infant; juvenile: very
young...
a. | precocial | b. | neonate | c. | niche | d. | sessile |
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The specific place that a
wildlife species occupies in nature...
a. | estrus | b. | niche | c. | edge effect | d. | role |
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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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The animals of a region or
area...
a. | population | b. | niche | c. | fauna | d. | catkins |
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A group of ecosystems within a
region that have similar types of vegetation and climatic conditions.
a. | biota | b. | biome | c. | biosphere | d. | aerie |
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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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An organ located in the
digestive tracts of birds and some other organisms where food is stored before it is
digested.
a. | crop | b. | caviar | c. | gizzard | d. | fauna |
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A community of living organisms
in addition to all of the nonliving features of the environment such as water, air, sunlight and
soil.
a. | ecosphere | b. | conservation | c. | family | d. | ecosystem |
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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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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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The plants that are found in a
particular region or environment.
a. | botany | b. | flora | c. | family | d. | fauna |
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A young
goose.
a. | duckling | b. | cygnet | c. | gosling | d. | chick |
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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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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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The lower shell of a turtle or
tortoise.
a. | carapace | b. | polliwag | c. | plastron | d. | scute |
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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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The process of reproduction in
fish in which females deposit eggs on the bed of a stream, pond or lake, and males discharge sperm on
the surface of the eggs.
a. | transpiration | b. | spawning | c. | salinity | d. | promiscuity |
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A relationship between two
organisms in which each organism receives benefits from its association with the other
organism.
a. | symbiosis | b. | allantois | c. | anadromous | d. | centriole |
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