Mutiple Choice
What is a large geographic region identified by its climax vegetation and distinctive animal life?
Biosphere
What slender burrowing wormlike amphibians lack legs and are seldom seen by man?
Caecilians
Includes pheasants, Grouse and turkey
Game birds
Living Factors in the environment are _________ Factors
Biotic
upper shell of a turtle is called a ____________
Carapace
What is the sudden outburst of living things of great variety in the fossil record, showing no evidence of evolution?
Cambrian Explosion
What French scientist demonstrated that not even the simplest organisms from non living matter
Louis Pasteur
Includes ducks, Geese, herons, and storks.
Water Birds
The two species of two rare, lizard like creatures found only in New Zealand?
Tuatara
The largest living Turtles are the ____________
Sea Turtles
what is the principle that animals well suited to their environment are more likely to survive than organisms poorly suited to their environment?
Natural Selection
What odd-toed hoofed mammal resembles a pig with a long snout or short trunk?
Tapir
Includes eagles, hawks, falcons, and vultures
Birds Of Prey
Annually moving to a different region is called ___________
Migration
the area between the highest and lowest tides along the coast is the ___________ zone
Intertidal
What is the stiff quill of a feather?
Rachis
What group of mammals includes Dogs, Cats, weasals and seals?
Carnivores
Includes Ostriches, Emu, and Kiwi's
Flightless Birds
The Voice Box of a bird is called a _________
Syrinx
Even-toed ungulates (such as cattle, sheep and deer) are?
Artiodactyls
In what region of egg yolk does the embryo develop?
Germinal spot
What is the longest Venomous snake?
King Cobra
Includes Songbirds
Perching Birds
any unleaded knowledge that an animal posses at birth is a ____________
Instinct
a Heart of a bird has how many chambers?
4