Grades K-2 Biodiversity
Grades K-2 Biodiversity
Grades K-2 Biodiversity
Grades K-2 Biodiversity
1. What is a group of
organisms that can have
babies together?
3. What is a place with habitats
for many different species?
5. If a parking lot is surrounded
by trees, what was probably
there before the parking lot?
7. What is an area of land
covered by trees and shrubs?
A. a species
B. a community
A. an ecosystem
B. a habitat
A. a forest
B. a grassland
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1. What are the place or places
with everything a species
needs to live, grow and
reproduce?
A. habitat
B. refuges
C. parks
A. a forest
B. a grassland
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3. What are the living things in
an ecosystem?
A. the biotic component
B. the abiotic component
C. the climate
CORRECT: A, A
5. What are all the individuals
of the same species in one
place?
7. Which species was hunted
to extinction in the 1920s in
Yellowstone but reintroduced
to the park in the 1990s?
A. a population
B. a community
C. an ecosystem
A. gray wolves
B. bald eagles
C. brown pelicans
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
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2. Which of these belong to
different species?
4. What does every animal
habitat need to have?
8. What is an area of land that
is very dry and has few plants?
A. a Steller's jay in a Douglas
fir
B. nests of baby hawksbill
turtles
A. food, water, and shelter
B. sunshine, water and soil
6. If a road runs through an
area covered by plants that like
water, what was probably there
before the road?
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4. What is it when one species
lives in or on another species,
drawing resources from it and
sometimes harming it?
2. What is the geographic area
that a species lives in or could
live in?
A. species range
B. habitat
C. refuges
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A. parasitism
B. mutualism
C. predation
CORRECT: A, A
A. a wetland
B. a forest
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6. What is a species that no
longer lives in a place where it
used to live, but still lives
someplace else?
A. a desert
B. a grassland
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8. Blue orchard bees are active
in spring before honey bees. If
pesticides caused these bees
to disappear, which other
species would be affected?
A. locally extint
B. extinct in the wild
C. extinct
A. early blooming fruit trees
B. mid-summer blooming crops
C. late summer blooming
flowers like asters
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
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9. Which species would you be
likely to find in a prairie?
11. Which species would you
be likely to find in a
northwestern forest?
15. Who ensures humane care
of pets and protects people
from nuisance wildlife?
A. big bluestem and prairie
gophers
B. maple trees and chickadees
A. Douglas fir and Steller's jay
B. reindeer lichen and caribou
A. animal control officers
B. botanists
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9. Who ensures that a forest
can support multiple uses like
logging, wildlife habitat, and
recreation sustainably?
11. Who sues agencies to
make sure endgangered
species laws are followed?
13. What is preserving and
protecing wild species, habitats
and ecosystems called?
A. lawyers
B. wildlife managers
C. foresters
A. a species range
B. ecological conservation
C. energy conservation
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, B
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13. Which species would you
be likely to find in western
mountains?
A. Colorado blue spruce and
mountain chickadees
B. creosote bush and
roadrunners
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A. foresters
B. botanists
C. fisheries managers
CORRECT: A, A
15. What is it when two species
help each other out in some
way?
A. predation
B. mutualism
C. parasitism
CORRECT: A, B
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10. Which place is likely to
have more different species?
12. Which species would you
be likely to find in Hawaii?
14. Who takes care of animals
in a zoo, and helps with
breeding rare species?
16. Who takes care of plants in
a botanical garden, and helps
with breeding rare species?
A. a forest
B. a desert
A. puapuamoa ferns and
Ohahu honeycreepers
B. reindeer lichen and caribou
A. zookeepers
B. aquarists
C.
A. botanists
B. aquarists
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Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
10. A scientist found 163 beetle
species on one species of
tropical tree. If that pattern
holds, how many beetle
species would you find in five
different species of trees?
A. 815
B. 163
C. 33
CORRECT: A, A
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Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
12. What are the living and
non-living parts of the
environment in a place?
A. communities
B. ecosystem
C. species
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. predation
B. competition
C. parasitism
A. a community
B. biodiversity
C. a population
CORRECT: A, B
CORRECT: A, B
CORRECT: A, B
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17.. If a mall is surrounded by
grasses, forbs and small
shrubs, what was probably
there before the mall?
19. What does every land plant
habitat need to have?
21. Which of these belong to
the same species?
23. What is an area of land
covered by grasses, forbs and
small shrubs?
A. food, water, and shelter
B. sunshine, water, and soil
A. a chickadee in a maple tree
B. a whitetail deer and her faun
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Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
19. Milkweed habitats are often
converted to crop fields or
housing developments. If
milkweeds went locally extinct,
which other species would be
most affected?
21. In 2013 the number of
wolves in Yellowstone was 95.
The average number of wolves
in a pack is 9. How many
packs would you expect to find
in Yellowstone?
A. honey bees
B. milkweed bugs
C. cabbage butterflies
A. about 15
B. about 10
C. about 5
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
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18. What is the place that has
everything a species needs to
live?
20. What is the number of
different species in one place?
22. What is a natural channel
that carries water into a river?
24. What is an area of land
often covered by water and
plants that like water?
A. an ecosystem
B. species diversity
A. a pond
B. a stream
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20. Who ensures that a fish
species can be harvested for
food sustainably?
22. What is it called when
stores, offices and houses
replace plant and animal
habitat?
A. a forest
B. a grassland
A. a desert
B. a grassland
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17. Which species went locally
extinct in the 1970s, but came
back in the 2000s due to the
regulation of pesticides by the
EPA?
A. gray wolves
B. bald eagles
C. whitetail deer
23. What are the surroundings
of an organism and the things
that affect it?
A. parks
B. climate
C. environment
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, B
A. its home
B. its habitat
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18. Which species went locally
extinct in the 1970s, but came
back in the 2000s due to the
regulation of pesticides by the
EPA
A. oak trees
B. brown pelicans
C. gray wolves
CORRECT: B, B
A. a grassland
B. a wetland
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A. aquarists
B. fisheries managers
C. wildlife managers
A. industrialization
B. urbanization
C. desertification
CORRECT: B, B
24. What are the non-living
things in an ecosystem?
A. the biotic component
B. the community
C. the abiotic component
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, B
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25. Which species would you
be likely to find in a
southwestern desert?
27. Which species would you
be likely to find in Alaska?
29. Who enforces laws that
protect wildlife?
31. Which species would you
find almost anywhere in the
lower 48 states?
A. gulf cordgrass and brown
pelicans
B. reindeer lichen and caribou
A. zookeepers
B. game wardens
A. big bluestem and prairie
gophers
B. creosote bushes and road
runners
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25. What is it when one
species eats the other
species?
A. mutualism
B. competition
C. predation
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Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
27. What is a group of different
species in one place?
A. a population
B. an ecosystem
C. a community
CORRECT: B, C
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?
A. brown pelicans
B. gray wolves
C. Segundo blue butterflies
CORRECT: B, C
A. gulf cordgrass and brown
pelicans
B. common sneezeweed and
garter snakes
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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 trees?
A. 360
B. 36000
C. 3600
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, C
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26. Which species would you
be likely to find in a
northeastern forest?
28. Which species could you
find along the Gulf coast?
30. Who takes care of animals
in an aquarium, and helps with
breeding rare species?
32. In a backyard there are five
species of birds, twelve
species of insects, and two
species of reptiles. Which
group has the most species?
A. Colorado blue spruce and
mountain chickadees
B. maple trees and chickadees
A. puapuamoa ferns and
Ohahu
B. gulf cordgrass and brown
pelicans
A. animal control officers
B. aquarists
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Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
Grades 3-5 Biodiversity
26. What is a group of
organisms that can interbreed
and produce fertile offspring?
28. Which species went locally
extinct in the early 1900s due
to market hunting, but came
back in the 1970s due to
hunting laws and restocking
efforts?
A. a population
B. a herd
C. a species
CORRECT: B, C
A. brown pelicans
B. gray wolves
C. whitetail deer
CORRECT: B, C
30. Who ensures that the
habitats of wild animals have
what the animals need to live
and reproduce?
A. game wardens
B. fisheries managers
C. wildlife managers
CORRECT: B, C
A. birds
B. insects
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32. If the area of habitat
required by an average
whitetail deer is 400 acres, how
many deer could live on 4800
acres?
A. about 40
B. about 6
C. about 12
CORRECT: B, C
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