Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
1. What are the place or places
with everything a species needs
to live, grow and reproduce?
3. What are the living things in an
ecosystem?
5. What are all the individuals of
the same species in one place?
A. the biotic component
B. the abiotic component
C. the climate
A. a population
B. a community
C. an ecosystem
7. Which species was
deliberately hunted to extinction
in the 1920s in Yellowstone
National Park to limit their impact
on livestock, but reintroduced to
the park in the 1990s?
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Grades 6-8 Biodiversity
3. What kind of plant community
would you expect to find at a
place with a mean annual
biotemperature of 9° C and
precipitation around 300 mm?
5. What is the conservation
status of a species likely to
become endangered in the near
future througout all or a
significant portion of its range?
A. grassland, steppe or prairie
B. temperate forest
C. tundra
A. threatened or vulnerable
B. near threatened
C. least concern
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
A. habitat
B. refuges
C. parks
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1. Which of these climate data is
a good predictor of the plant
community that might be in an
area?
A. mean annual biotemperature
B. mean biotemperature of the
hottest month
C. mean biotemperature of the
coldest month
CORRECT: A, A,
A. gray wolves
B. bald eagles
C. brown pelicans
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7. What is the Carolina parakeet
an example of?
A. a species extinction in recent
history
B. a mass extinction in geologic
times
C. a potential future extinction
event
CORRECT: A, A
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2. What is the geographic area
that a species lives in or could
live in?
4. What is it when one species
lives in or on another species,
drawing resources from it and
sometimes harming it?
6. What is a species that no
longer lives in a place where it
used to live, but still lives
someplace else?
A. parasitism
B. mutualism
C. predation
A. locally extint
B. extinct in the wild
C. extinct
8. Blue orchard bees are active
in the spring before honey bees.
If pesticide use caused these
bees to go locally extinct, which
other species would be most
affected?
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Grades 6-8 Biodiversity
4. What is the background
extinction rate estimated from the
fossil record?
6. What is it when a species is no
longer able to survive and
reproduce in the wild?
A. 0.001% of species every 100
years
B. over 50% of species every
100 years
C. 0.5% of species every 100
years
A. extinct in the wild
B. species extinction
C. co-threatened species
A. species range
B. habitat
C. refuges
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2. What kind of plant community
would you expect to find at a
place with a mean annual
biotemperature of 24° C and
precipitation around 65 mm?
A. desert
B. tropical rain forest
C. grassland, steppe or prairie
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
A. early blooming fruit trees
B. mid-summer blooming crops
C. late summer blooming flowers
like asters
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8. What is the Hawaian crow an
example of?
A. a species extinct in the wild
B. a species extinction in recent
history
C. a mass extinction event
CORRECT: A, A
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Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
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Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
9. Who ensures that a forest can
support multiple uses like
logging, wildlife habitat, and
recreation sustainably?
11. A scientist found 163 beetle
species that only lived on one
species of ttropical ree. If that
pattern holds, how many species
of beetles would you expect to
find in five different species of
trees?
13. What is preserving and
protecing wild species, habitats
and ecosystems?
15. What is it when two species
help each other out in some
way?
A. a species range
B. ecological conservation
C. energy conservation
A. predation
B. mutualism
C. parasitism
A. 815
B. 163
C. 33
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13. What kind of plant community
would you expect to find at a
place with a mean annual
biotemperature of 24° C and
precipitation around 14,000 mm?
15. What is the conservation
status of a species that appears
to be stable over most of all of its
range for the time being?
A. foresters
B. botanists
C. fisheries managers
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9. The Biotic Index (BI), uses "b",
the number of sensitive species,
divided by "a",the total number of
species. If b = 36 and a = 10,
what does BI equal?
A. 3.6
B. 36
C. 10
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11. In law, who owns wildlife in
the U.S.?
A. the U.S. public as a whole
B. the person on whose land the
wildlife lives
C. no one
A. temperate rainforest
B. tropical rain forest
C. desert
A. threatened or vulnerable
B. least concern
C. near threatened
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
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Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
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Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
11. Who sues agencies to make
sure endgangered species laws
are followed?
12. What are the living and nonliving parts of the environment in
a place?
14. What is it when two or more
species use the same resource
and can't share it?
16. What is a measure of the
variety of different species
present in different ecosystems?
A. lawyers
B. wildlife managers
C. foresters
A. communities
B. ecosystem
C. species
A. predation
B. competition
C. parasitism
A. a community
B. biodiversity
C. a population
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Grades 6-8 Biodiversity
Grades 6-8 Biodiversity
Grades 6-8 Biodiversity
10. Who studies species in the
wild to learn about life cycles and
habitat for information to manage
them for long term survival?
12. Which of these climate data
is a good predictor of the plant
community that might be in an
area?
16. What is the conservation
status of a species that is likely
to become extinct in the near
future throughout all or a
significant portion of its range?
A. wildlife scientists
B. captive breeders
C. restoration ecologists
A. precipitation in the driest
month
B. total annual precipitation
C. mean monthly precipitation
14. What kind of plant community
would you expect to find at a
place with a mean annual
biotemperature of 3° C and
precipitation from 60 to 1000
mm.
CORRECT: A, A
A. temperate forest
B. tundra
C. desert
CORRECT: B, B
A. least concern
B. endangered
C. threatened or vulnerable
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
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Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
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17. Which species was
widespread before WWII, went
locally extinct in the 1970s due to
pesticides, but came back in the
2000s due to the regulation of
pesticides by the Environmental
Protection Agency?
19. Milkweed habitats are often
converted to crop fields or
housing developments. If
milkweeds went locally extinct,
which other species would be
most affected?
23. What are the surroundings of
an organism and the things that
affect it?
23. In 2013 the number of wolves
in Yellowstone National Park was
95. The average number of
wolves in a pack is about 9. How
many wolf packs would you
expect to find in Yellowstone?
A. gray wolves
B. bald eagles
C. whitetail deer
A. honey bees
B. milkweed bugs
C. cabbage butterflies
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Grades 6-8 Biodiversity
17. What is it when over 50% of
living species disappear in 100
years?
A. species extinction
B. a mass extinction event
C. background extinction
19. Which act do the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service and the
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Agency both
administer?
A. the Clean Air Act
B. the Endangered Species Act
C. the Clean Water Act
A. parks
B. environment
C. climate
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21. Who brings back natural
ecosystems damaged by human
activity or weather through active
management (weeding, planting,
flooding, draining, burning, etc.)
?
A. wildlife scientists
B. restoration ecologists
C. captive breeders
A. about 15
B. about 5
C. about 10
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23. Biotemperature is the
temperature at which plants can
grow. What is the range of
biotemperatures for most plants?
A. between 0° C and 24° C
B. between 32° C and 104° C
C. between 0° C and 30° C
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: B, B
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Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
18. Who ensures that a fish
species can be harvested for
food sustainably?
20. Which species went locally
extinct in the 1970s, but came
back in the 2000s due to the
regulation of pesticides by the
Environmental Protection
Agency?
22. What is it called when stores,
offices and houses replace plant
and animal habitat?
24. What are the non-living
things in an ecosystem?
A. aquarists
B. fisheries managers
C. wildlife managers
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18. What is the disappearance of
thousands of marine species at
the end of the Cretacous an
example of?
A. a future extinction event
B. a mass extinction in geologic
times
C. an historical extinction event
A. oak trees
B. brown pelicans
C. gray wolves
A. industrialization
B. urbanization
C. desertification
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Grades 6-8 Biodiversity
20. Which of these is an effect of
gray wolves being re-introduced
into Yellowstone in the 2000s?
22. The Biotic Index (BI) is used
to tell whether a stream is
healthy enough to support
aquatic life. Which way should BI
values go if stream health
improves?
A. elk increased
B. beaver numbers increased
C. willow numbers decreased
A. they should stay the same
B. up
C. down
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
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A. the biotic component
B. the community
C. the abiotic component
CORRECT: B, B
24. What kind of plant community
would you expect to find at a
place with a mean annual
biotemperature of 9° C and
precipitation around 750 mm?
A. tropical rain forest
B. grassland, steppe or prairie
C. temperate forest
CORRECT: C, C
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Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
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Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
25. What is it when one species
eats the other species?
27. What is a group of different
species in one place?
A. mutualism
B. competition
C. predation
A. a population
B. an ecosystem
C. a community
29. Which species has gone
extinct in most of its range due to
urbanization, but is hanging on
near the Los Angeles
International Airport because the
airport is preserving its habitat?
31. It takes about 300 female
blue orchard bees per acre to
pollinate an almond orchard.
How many bees would you need
for 12 acres of almond trees?
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Grades 6-8 Biodiversity
25. What is the death, without
any surviving offspring, of all the
individuals in a species?
27. What is a U.S. law passed by
congress in 1973 to conserve the
ecosystems that endangered and
threatened species depend on?
A. local extinction
B. a genetic bottle neck
C. global species extinction
CORRECT: C, C
A. the Migratory Bird Treaty
B. the Basel Convention
C. the Endangered Species Act
(ESA)
CORRECT: C, C
A. brown pelicans
B. gray wolves
C. Segundo blue butterflies
A. 360
B. 36000
C. 3600
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Grades 6-8 Biodiversity
29. Which of these is an
inventory of the global
conservation status of a species
A. the Toxics Release Inventory
B. the U.S. Endangered Species
List
C. the IUCN Red List
31. Who helps wild animals
reproduce in safe enviroments
like zoos or reserves and then
releases them into the wild?
A. wildlife scientists
B. restoration ecologists
C. captive breeders
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
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26. Who ensures that the
habitats of wild animals have
what the animals need to live
and reproduce?
28. Which species was
widespread before the civil war,
went locally extinct in the early
1900s due to market hunting, but
came back in the 1970s due to
federal and state hunting laws
and restocking efforts?
30. What is a group of organisms
that can interbreed and produce
fertile offspring?
32. If the area of habitat required
by an average whitetail deer is
400 acres, how many deer could
live on 4800 acres?
A. brown pelicans
B. gray wolves
C. whitetail deer
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A. game wardens
B. fisheries managers
C. wildlife managers
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A. a population
B. communication
C. a species
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30. What can the Endangered
Species Act (ESA) require of
private landowners, developers
and businesses if an endangered
species if found on their
property?
26. What is the conservation
status of species whose numbers
are reduced over its range or
which is dependent on
conservation efforts to persist?
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A. least concern
B. endangered
C. near threatened
A. extinct in the wild
B. a mass extinction event
C. co-threatened
A. that they give up their land
B. nothing
C. that they take reasonable
steps to protect them
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
28. What are species that
depend on a species that has
gone extinct called?
A. about 40
B. about 6
C. about 12
32. Which of these is the main
cause of extinction worldwide?
A. pollution
B. legal hunting
C. habitat loss
CORRECT: C, C
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