Wetlands
Waterfowl
Species Identification
Acts & Laws
Ecological Principles
100
Which of the following adaptations is shown in the image?
What are Aerial Roots?
100
When do female ducks begin their mid-summer molt?
A. During brood rearing
B. After breeding
C. Before breeding
D. After brood rearing
What is D. After brood rearing
100
What species of swan is this?
A. Tundra Swan
B. Mute Swan
C. Trumpeter Swan
D. None of these
What is A. Tundra Swan
100
What calss has many species protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act?
A. Chiroptera
B. Aves
C. Mammalia
D. Carnivora
What is B. Aves?
100
Which of the following does not influence an organism's niche?
A. Parasitism
B. Competition
C. Commensalism
D. Mutualism
What is C.
200
Which of these causes degradatation to a wetland?
A. Agriculture
B. Industrial Use
C. Sedimentation
D. None of these
What is C Sedimentation?
200
The lesser scaup is classified as which type of waterfowl?
A. Diving Duck
B. Stiff-tailed duck
C. Sea duck
D. Goose
A. Diving Duck
200
What species is this animal?
A. Red-tailed hawk
B. Wild Turkey
C. Peregrine Falcon
D. Norther Bobwhite
What is C. Peregrine Falcon.
200
What year was the Lacey Act passed?
A. 1900
B. 1890
C. 1918
D. 1934
What is A - 1900.
200
Which of the following is known to cause primary succession?
A. Floods
B. Glacier Movement
C. Acid Rain
D. Tornadoes
What is B. Glacier Movement
300
Which of these is a wetland with seasonal flooding that contains woody plants, a build-up of dead vegetation, saturated/slow moving water, and a lack of oxygen in the soil?
A. Swamp
B. Tidal Marsh
C. Fen
D. Bog
What is A - Swamp?
300
What is the speculum on waterfowl?
A. Bright colored patch on the secondaries of diving ducks
B. Bright colored patch on the secondaries of dabbling ducks
C. Differences in bill coloration
D. Range of colors waterfowl can exhibit
What is B?
300
What Species is this animal?
A. Wild Turkey
B. Mourning Dove
C. Northern Flicker
D. Northern Bobwhite
What is D. Northern Bobwhite
300
Which president enacted the Farm Bill?
A. Andrew Jackson
B. Harry S. Truman
C. Herbert Hoover
D. Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is D.
300
Where is the phosphorus cycle primarily conducted?
A. In air and volcanoes
B. In soil and plants
C. In volcanoes and lightning
D. In water and atmosphere
What is B. Soil and plants
400
What percentage of US wetlands has already been lost?
A. 30%
B. 90%
C. 50 %
D. 10%
What is C. 50%?
400
Where are the lamellae located?
A. In the vocal cords of the bird
B. In the food needed for nutrients
C. In the bill of the bird
D. In the esophagus of the bird
What is C.
400
What species is this animal?
A. Mule Deer
B. Bighorn Sheep
C. Mountain Goat
D. Pronghorn
What is B. Bighorn Sheep
400
What year was the Duck Stamp Act enacted?
A. 1933
B. 1934
C. 1932
D. 1935
What is B?
400
Ecosystem Management was broadened by the establishment of which of the following in 1978?
A. Biological Survey
B. Bureau of Fisheries
C. Environmental Protection Agency
D. Conservation Biology
What is D. Conservation Biology
500
How much water can one acre of wetland filter per year?
What is 7.3 million gallons?
500
Which two species are known for forming seasonally monogamous pair bonds?
A. Canada Goose and Mute Swan
B. American wigeon and Canada Goose
C. Canvasback and Mute Swan
D. American wigeon and Canvasback
What is D.
500
Which of the following families includes species which have antlers present?
A. Bovidae
B. Felidae
C. Cervidae
D. Canidae
What is C. Cervidae?
500
The Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act is also known as which of the following.
A. Bird Conservation Act
B. Duck Conservation Act
C. Duck Stamp Act
D. Migratory Bird Act
What is C. Duck Stamp Act
500
Which of the following best describes a pioneer species?
A. The first species to grow in an area of secondary succession
B. The most important species which needs to be protected
C. The species which live the longest in the habitat
D. The first species to colonize an area in primary succession.
What is D. The first species to colonize an area in primary succession.