Biodiversity and Habitat Loss – Upper Elementary
1. What are the places with everything a species needs to live, grow and reproduce?
A. habitats
B. refuges
C. parks
D. communities
2. What are the living and non-living parts of the environment in a place?
A. ecosystem
B. species
C. communities
D. biodiversity
3. What are the surroundings of an organism and the things that affect it?
A. environment
B. parks
C. climate
D. refuges
4. What is the geographic area that a species lives in or could live in?
A. species range
B. habitat
C. refuges
D. wild areas
5. What is preserving and protecing wild species, habitats and ecosystems?
A. ecological conservation
B. energy conservation
C. a species range
D. resource conservation
6. What are the non-living things in an ecosystem?
A. the abiotic component
B. the biotic component
C. the community
D. a species
7. What are the living things in an ecosystem?
A. the biotic component
B. the abiotic component
C. the climate
D. a species
Correct Answer - A
Biodiversity and Habitat Loss – Upper Elementary
8. What is it when two or more species use the same resource and can't share it?
A. competition
B. parasitism
C. predation
D. mutualism
9. What is it when one species eats the other species?
A. predation
B. mutualism
C. competition
D. parasitism
10. What is it when one species lives in or on another species, drawing resources from it and sometimes harming it?
A. parasitism
B. mutualism
C. predation
D. competition
11. What is it when two species help each other out in some way?
A. mutualism
B. parasitism
C. predation
D. competition
12. What is a group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring?
A. a species
B. a population
C. communication
D. an ecosystem
13. What are all the individuals of the same species in one place?
A. a population
B. a community
C. an ecosystem
D. a habitat
14. What is a measure of the variety of different species present in different ecosystems?
A. biodiversity
B. a population
C. a community
D. an ecosystem
Correct Answer - A
Biodiversity and Habitat Loss – Upper Elementary
15. What is a group of different species in one place?
A. a community
B. a population
C. an ecosystem
D. the abiotic component
16. What is a species that no longer lives in a place where it used to live, but still lives someplace else?
A. locally extint
B. extinct in the wild
C. extinct
D. rare
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?
A. bald eagles
B. whitetail deer
C. gray wolves
D. honey bees
18. 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?
A. whitetail deer
B. brown pelicans
C. gray wolves
D. honey bees
19. 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?
A. gray wolves
B. bald eagles
C. brown pelicans
D. honey bees
20. 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?
A. brown pelicans
B. gray wolves
C. oak trees
D. honey bees
Correct Answer - A
Biodiversity and Habitat Loss – Upper Elementary
21. Which species has gone extinct in most of its range because of urban development, but is hanging on near the Los
Angeles International Airport because the airport is preserving its habitat?
A. Segundo blue butterflies
B. brown pelicans
C. gray wolves
D. honey bees
22. Blue orchard bees are active in the spring before honey bees. If careless pesticide use caused these bees to go
locally extinct, which other species would be most affected?
A. early blooming fruit trees
B. mid-summer blooming crops like corn
C. late summer blooming flowers like asters
D. oak trees
23. Milkweed habitats are often converted to crop fields or housing developments. If milkweeds went locally extinct, which
other species would be most affected?
A. milkweed bugs
B. cabbage butterflies
C. honey bees
D. corn ear worms
24. Who ensures that the habitats of wild animals have what the animals need to live and reproduce?
A. wildlife managers
B. game wardens
C. fisheries managers
D. foresters
25. Who ensures that a forest can support multiple uses like logging, wildlife habitat, and recreation sustainably?
A. foresters
B. botanists
C. fisheries managers
D. game wardens
26. Who ensures that a fish species can be harvested for food sustainably?
A. fisheries managers
B. wildlife managers
C. aquarists
D. foresters
27. 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?
A. 3600
B. 360
C. 36000
D. 4000
Correct Answer - A
Biodiversity and Habitat Loss – Upper Elementary
28. An insect scientist working in tropical rain forests found 163 species of beetles that only lived on one species of tree. If
each species of tropical tree has 163 species of beetles that live only on that tree species, how many species of beetles
would you expect to find in five different species of trees?
A. 815
B. 163
C. 33
D. over 1000
29. 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. about 10
B. about 5
C. about 15
D. about 8
30. If the area of habitat required by an average whitetail deer is 400 acres, how many deer could live on 4800 acres?
A. about 12
B. about 40
C. about 6
D. about 24
Correct Answer - A