Science

Question 1

What cycle is primarily conducted in soil and plants?

Answer 1

Phosphorous cycle

Question 2

What is the Clean air and water act?

Answer 2

An act made in 1948 that focuses on maintaining clean air and water.

Question 3

What process describes intake of oxygen to convert glucose into energy

Answer 3

Respiration

Question 4

What is the first species to colonize an area primarily succession are known as?

Answer 4

Pioneer Species

Question 5

What are the positive ecological interactions between organisms.

Answer 5

Commensalism and mutualism

Question 6

What is The mass expansion of urban areas that rapidly destroys surrounding environments

Answer 6

Urban sprawl

Question 7

What percentage of the earth do rain forest cover?

Answer 7

6%

Question 8

Breaking up habitats so they can no longer remain functional is called?

Answer 8

Habitat Fragmentation

Question 9

Act of complete loss of habitat through direct human involvement is called?

Answer 9

Habitat Destruction

Question 10

Act of polluting a habitat until the quality of the habitat can no longer support life is called?

Answer 10

Habitat Degradation

Question 11

What habitats does grassland typically exist between?

Answer 11

Forest & Desserts

Question 12

What is the Farm bill?

Answer 12

An act created in 1933, this act provides incentives for landowners to conserve grasslands habitats

Question 13

What are controlled fires and are created by experts to clear fire fuel?

Answer 13

Prescribed burns

Question 14

What are decaying grass roots that enrich the soil, making this biome’s soil the most fertile?

Answer 14

Temperate Grasslands.

Question 15

what invasive species destroys young trees and causes soil erosion in forest habitats.

Answer 15

Feral hogs

Question 16

What percentage of the earth do grass lands cover?

Answer 16

40-45%/ 20-40%

Question 17

What evergreen trees dominate the boreal forest?

Answer 17

Coniferous trees

Question 18

what are wetlands classified by woody plants, slow-moving water, and low oxygen soil?

Answer 18

Swamps

Question 19

What is the Duck stamp act?

Answer 19

An act made in 1934, that funds wildlife refuges.

Question 20

What do wetlands filter to protect freshwater quality?

Answer 20

Sedimentation

Question 21

What percentage of fresh water is trapped in glaciers or underground aquifers?

Answer 21

99%

Question 22

What are the factors that the wetlands are classified by?

Answer 22

Hydrological regime, vegetation cover, and landscape position.

Question 23

What is the maximum population size of a species habitat can support?

Answer 23

Carrying capacity

Question 24

What term refers to the number of deaths per 1,000 individuals per unit of time

Answer 24

Death rate

Question 25

What is method of measuring populations records signs of animals, such as tracks and droppings?

Answer 25

The index of population size

Question 26

What is a fertility control type of method for managing wildlife populations?

Answer 26

Non-lethal

Question 27

What is a principle that states that fish and wildlife belong to all North American citizens?

Answer 27

A Public Trust Doctrine

Question 28

Ecosystem management was broadened by what establishment 1978?

Answer 28

Conservation Biology

Question 29

What does not conduct nitrogen fixation?

Answer 29

Humans

Question 30

What does not influence and organisms niche?

Answer 30

Commensalism

Question 31

What is known for causing primary succession?

Answer 31

Glacier movement

Question 32

What is the positive ecological interactions between organisms?

Answer 32

Mutualism

Question 33

What is not a category of wetland biome?

Answer 33

Tropical

Question 34

Tourism and recreation are examples of what services provided by habitats

Answer 34

Cultural

Question 35

What services are natural processes the habitat facilitates to maintain the conditions of the earth, such as oxygen production and nutrient cycling?

Answer 35

Supporting

Question 36

What services are natural processes the habitat regulates, such as biological control of predator and prey populations and prevention of soil erosion?

Answer 36

Regulating

Question 37

What services are products obtained from a habitat; used every day, such as food, water, wood and oil?

Answer 37

Provisional

Question 38

What contains over half of all species of plants and animals on the planet?

Answer 38

The rain forest

Question 39

What is most likely be found in a bog?

Answer 39

Carnivorous plants

Question 40

What habitat would heavy grazers and burrowing animals most likely be found?

Answer 40

Grasslands

Question 41

Contains Evergreen trees

Answer 41

Taiga

Question 42

Various species of grasses

Answer 42

Grasslands

Question 43

Large evergreen trees, vines, ferns and mosses

Answer 43

Tropical rain forest

Question 44

Mosses and lichen

Answer 44

Tundra

Question 45

Trees with color-changing leaves such as oak, maple and beech

Answer 45

Deciduous forest

Question 46

Plants with shallow widespread roots and thick leaves

Answer 46

Desserts

Question 47

What is the Homestead act?

Answer 47

An act made in 1862, that encouraged settlers to move west and provided free acreage to those who made the journey.

Question 48

What is a service the forest does not provide?

Answer 48

Replenishing carbon dioxide

Question 49

A forest habitat which undergoes fragmentation can lose up to 45 percent of its biodiversity? (T/F)

Answer 49

True

Question 50

How many acres of tree-covered land is considered in risk of mortality?

Answer 50

81 million

Question 51

Order these top to bottom: canopy, herb layer, forest floor, understory, shrub layer

Answer 51

Canopy Understory Shrub layer Herb layer Forest floor

Question 52

What is tillage primarily used for?

Answer 52

Control weeds and aerate soil.

Question 53

What services do Grasslands provide?

Answer 53

Store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, Filter runoff from precipitation, Provide very important habitat for wildlife, Build deep and rich soils

Question 54

Where are savannas typically found?

Answer 54

Africa, Australia and South America.

Question 55

What is not a main threat which plagues grasslands today?

Answer 55

Lasting effects of the Dust Bowl.

Question 56

When topsoil is lost, the loss is fairly permanent because the process to create just three centimeters of topsoil takes about 1,000 years. (T/F)

Answer 56

True

Question 57

What is the specific mission of the Natural Resources Conservation Service?

Answer 57

To conserve soil for agriculture production.

Question 58

Hurricanes do less financial damage, flood further inland and displace more people when coasts are heavily developed.

Answer 58

False

Question 59

What are levees are most commonly used for?

Answer 59

Stopping water from naturally changing course.

Question 60

Why are wetlands economically important?

Answer 60

Wetlands provide both commercial and recreational fisheries.

Question 61

What are the two main causes of wetland degradation?

Answer 61

Sedimentation and Soil runoff

Question 62

What are wetlands not critical for?

Answer 62

Developing agriculture land

Question 63

What president enacted the Farm bill?

Answer 63

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 64

What is not a wetland?

Answer 64

Substrate

Question 65

What does Biological productivity include?

Answer 65

Greater volume of food production for large food webs.

Question 66

Put these in order from top to bottom: Agriculture/Irrigator, Government/Municipal Landowner, Non-User/Care about existence

Answer 66

1. Non-User/Care about existence 2. Agriculture/Irrigator 3. Government/Municipal Landowner

Question 67

What allows organizations like farmers to be paid to reduce the amount of pollution they discharge?

Answer 67

Water Quality Trading

Question 68

Recreational activities generate how much money per year?

Answer 68

40 billion

Question 69

The hooded warbler is a what wetland species?

Answer 69

Temporary

Question 70

Which of the following best describes this image?

Answer 70

Base flow contribution

Question 71

To be considered a wetland, the area must be covered in shallow water all year.

Answer 71

False