Wildlife Biology Final Exam Review

Fish

100

1. How many times a year do most fish spawn?

2.  During what month(s) does most spawning occur?

1. one

2.  April - September/October (Salmon)

200

1.  In what decade were salmon introduced to the Great Lakes?

2. What type of salmon did we raise?

3.  In what month would you expect to find salmon spawning?

1.  1960s

2. Chinook

3.  September/October

300

Name a popular game fish in Lake Erie.

walleye, perch, bass, crappie, bluegill

400

1.  Name 2 fish that are invasive species in the Great Lakes.

2.  Describe two ways these fish could have been introduced to the Great Lakes.

1.  round goby, alewives, sea lamprey

2. ballast water from ships, swim up manmade canals, dumping of aquarium pets and leftover bait

500

In 2017 Michigan Governor, Rick Snyder, introduced the Invasive Carp Challenge. 

1.  Describe the winning entry. 

2.  Where is the biggest threat of carp ending up in Lake Michigan?

1.  Cavitation barrier-stinging, noisy bubbles that explode

2.  CAWS-Chicago Area Waterways and the Brandon Lock System

Birds/Wetlands

100

Name two birds from our identification quiz that are migratory. 

red winged blackbird, bluebird, robin, baltimore oriole, ruby throated hummingbird

200

Explain what an owl pellet is. 

a mass of undigested fur and bones that is regurgitated

300

1.  In what type of wetland are trees the predominant type of vegetation?

2.  What type of wetland have the greatest amount of open water?

3.  What is one benefit of wetlands?

1.  swamp (cedar trees)

2.  marsh

3.  flood control, filter water, habitats, recreation

400

Identify the owl:

1.  Call sounds like "who cooks for you"

2.  White, heart-shaped face

3. Hedwig 

4.  Smallest owl in North America

1. barred owl

2. barn owl

3. snowy owl

4.  northern saw whet owl

500

1.  Describe what zygodactyl feet look like?

2.  Name two birds that have zygodactyl feet.

3.  What is the main benefit of having zygodactyl feet.

1.  two toes forward and two toes back

2.  owls and woodpeckers

3.  Allows birds to grip things more efficiently such as wriggling prey or to cling to vertical trees. 

Forestry

100

Identify the tree:

1. white, peeling bark
2.  conifer that looses its needles
3.  shade intolerant

1. white birch
2. tamarack
3.  aspen, white birch, black ash

200

What do the dark lines on a tree cookie represent?

Times of slow growth when water isn't plentiful. Often called summer wood. 

300

1. Name three trees native to Michigan that are considered angiosperms.

2.  Name three trees native to Michigan that are considered gymnosperms.

1.  red oak, sugar maple, cottonwood

2.  white pine, red cedar, red pine

400

Identify all parts of the flower. Identify the part that produces the pollen.

A: ovule
B: ovary
C:  style
D:  stigma
E: pistil
F: anther (produces pollen)
G: stamen
H: filament
I: sepal
J: petal

500

1. Describe what opposite branching on trees refers to. 

2. Name two trees, native to Michigan, that have opposite branching. 

1.  branches that grow directly across from one another

2.  maple trees, ash trees, box elder trees

Insects

100

1. What is the order name for beetles?

2.  What type of life cycle (complete or incomplete) do beetles undergo?

1. Coleoptera

2.  complete

200

1.  List the stages of complete metamorphosis.

2.  Name three insects native to Michigan that undergo complete metamorphosis.

1.  egg, larva, pupa, adult

2.  monarch, may beetle, bald faced hornet, luna moth

300

1.  What is the primary food source of monarchs?

2.  What type of metamorphosis do monarch butterflies undergo?

1.  milkweed

2.  complete

400

1.  What order do blue bottle flies belong to?

2.  What type of life cycle do blue bottle flies undergo? 

1.  Diptera

2.  complete metamorphosis

500

1.  What order of insects do mosquitos belong to?

2.  What type of life cycle do mosquitos have?

3.  At what stage in their life cycle do mosquitos overwinter?

1. Diptera

2.  complete metamorphosis

3.  most overwinter as eggs, a few can overwinter as adults

Vocabulary

100

 bird wishbone (collarbone)

furculum

200

1.  layer of vegetation below the main canopy of the forest

2.  elongated flower on a tree, often downy

1. understory

2. catkin

300

1.  dense, inner part of a tree trunk

2. recently formed wood underneath the bark

3.  top layer in the forest

1. heartwood

2.  sapwood

3. canopy

400

1. helpless at birth

2. advanced at birth

3. warm blooded

4. muscular stomach for grinding food

1. altricial

2. precocial

3. endothermic

4. gizzard

500

1. single leaf attached to a branch

2. disturbance that removes vegetation, but leaves soil

3. pores in the stem of a tree

4. disturbance that removes vegetation and soil

5. many leaflets joined to a single stem

1. simple leaf

2. secondary succession

3. lenticels

4. primary succession

5. compound leaf