Grades 6-8 Biodiversity
Grades 6-8 Biodiversity
Grades 6-8 Biodiversity
Grades 6-8 Biodiversity
1. Which of these climate data is
a good predictor of the plant
community that might be in an
area?
3. What kind of plant community
would you expect where the
mean annual biotemperature is
9°C and precipitation is 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?
7. What is the Carolina parakeet
an example of?
A. mean annual biotemperature
B. mean biotemperature of the
hottest month
C. mean biotemperature of the
coldest month
A. grassland, steppe or prairie
B. temperate forest
C. tundra
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3. Why is a lack of genetic
diversity in a population or
species considered a problem?
1. What is an international treaty
to ensure that global trade in
plants and wildlife does not
threaten their survival?
A. threatened or vulnerable
B. near threatened
C. least concern
A. a species extinction in recent
history
B. a mass extinction in geologic
times
C. a potential future extinction
event
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5. Which of these is the biggest
threat to species worldwide?
7. What kind of government
initiative is arresting a Florida
man after finding sea turtle eggs
in his backpack?
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A. CITES
B. Ramsar
C. IUCN
A. it reduces a species' ability to
adapt to environmental changes
B. it increases chances a species
will hybridize with other species
C. it causes species to disperse
before breeding
A. loss of habitat
B. hunting wildlife out of season
C. scientific whaling
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
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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?
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?
8. What is the Hawaian crow an
example of?
A. 0.001% of species/100 years
B. > 50% of species /100 years
C. 0.5% of species/ 100 years
A. extinct in the wild
B. species extinction
C. co-threatened species
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Grades 9-12 Biodiversity
4. The strain of stem rust Ug99
kills 85% of wheat varieties it
Africa. What is the best way to
stop it?
6. What kind of government
initiative is the Puget Sound
Marine and Nearshore Grant
Program for the purchase of
nearshore and upland habitat?
A. penalties
B. economic incentives
C. research
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
A. desert
B. tropical rain forest
C. grassland, steppe or prairie
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2. What is a 1916 treaty between
the U.S. and Great Britain (for
Canada) for the protection of
birds that spend time in both the
U.S. and Canada?
A. a species extinct in the wild
B. an historical extinction event
C. a mass extinction event
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A. Migratory Bird Treaty
B. Ramsar
C. CITES
A. search for resistant genes in
different wheat varieties
B. destroy all the plants that are
infected
C. stop people traveling from
Africa to anywhere else.
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
8. Who sets specific standards
for species protection laws, helps
people, businesses and agencies
follow them and enforces them
when they are not followed?
A. economic incentives
B. education and information
C. research
A. agencies in the executive
branch
B. the court system
C. congress and legislatures
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
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9. In law, who owns wildlife in the
U.S.?
11. 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?
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. 3.6
B. 36
C. 10
A. temperate rainforest
B. tropical rain forest
C. desert
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11. What does fishing down the
food web mean?
13. What is a list of plants,
animals and fungi facing a risk of
extinction or that have gone
extinct?
A. the U.S. public as a whole
B. the person on whose land the
wildlife lives
C. no one
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A. threatened or vulnerable
B. least concern
C. near threatened
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9. Who tallies the number and
species of fish kept or discarded
on commercial fishing vessels?
A. NOAA Fisheries observers
B. sniffer dogs and their handlers
C. wildlife forensic scientists
CORRECT: A, A
A. switching to smaller fish lower
on the food chain
B. switching to plankton
C. switching to bottom feeding
species
A. the Blue List
B. the Red List
C. the Green List
15. Who decides if a species
protection law is being broken?
A. agencies in the executive
branch
B. the court system
C. congress and legislatures
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: B, B
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10. Who studies species in the
wild to learn about life cycles and
habitat for managing 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?
14. What kind of plant community
would you expect to find where
mean annual biotemperature is
3° C and precipitation ranges
from 60 to 1000 mm.
A. wildlife scientists
B. captive breeders
C. restoration ecologists
A. precipitation in the driest
month
B. total annual precipitation
C. mean monthly precipitation
A. temperate forest
B. tundra
C. desert
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12. What is an international
treaty for the conservation and
sustainable use of wetlands?
14. Svalbard, Norway, is home to
what iconservation tool?
16. Who encourages the
passage of species protection
laws and supports their
enforcement?
A. a lab to study algae at the
base of polar food chains
B. a global seed vault to back up
other seed vaults
C. a zoo for breeding arctic
mammals
A. congress and legislatures
B. non-governmental
organizations
C. the court system
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10. Which of these is the biggest
threat to large African mammals
like elephants and rhinos?
A. illegal hunting for ivory and
horns
B. loss of habitat when rivers are
diverted for irrigation
C. harvesting gizzards for the
traditional medicine market
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. least concern
B. endangered
C. threatened or vulnerable
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A. IUCN
B. Ramsar
C. CITES
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: B, B
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17. What is it when over 50% of
living species disappear in 100
years?
19. Which act do the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service and the
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Agency both
administer?
21. Who brings back natural
habitats damaged by humans or
weather by active management
(weeding, planting, flooding,
draining, burning, etc.) ?
23. Biotemperature is the
temperature at which plants can
grow. What is the range of
biotemperatures for most plants?
A. the Clean Air Act
B. the Endangered Species Act
(ESA)
C. the Clean Water Act (CWA)
A. wildlife scientists
B. restoration ecologists
C. captive breeders
A. species extinction
B. a mass extinction event
C. background extinction
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17. What kind of government
initiative is the "Get to Know Your
Species", an interactive website
from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service that lets you find out
what endangered species live in
your state?
A. between 0° C and 24° C
B. between 32° C and 104° C
C. between 0° C and 30° C
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19. Who finds wildlife products
(like ivory) or wildlife that are
being illegally shipped across
international borders?
A. research
B. education and information
C. economic incentives
A. NOAA Fisheries observers
B. sniffer dogs and their handlers
C. wildlife forensic scientists
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
21. Which of these is the biggest
threat to marine species in
waters near the mouth of the
Mississippi river?
23. What is a global nongovernmental organization
whose mission is to conserve
nature and ensure that any use
of natural resources is equitable
and ecologically sustainable?
A. diseases from farmed fish
B. nutrient pollution from fertilizer
and manure runoff
C. habitat loss when wetlands
are filled in
A. Ramsar
B. CITES
C. IUCN
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: B, B
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18. What is the disappearance of
thousands of marine species at
the end of the Cretacous an
example of?
20. Which of these is an effect of
gray wolves being re-introduced
into Yellowstone in the 2000s?
22. The Biotic Index (BI) tells
whether a stream is healthy
enough to support aquatic life.
Which way should BI values go if
stream health improves?
A. a potential future extinction
B. a mass extinction in geologic
times
C. an historical extinction
A. elk increased
B. beaver numbers increased
C. willow numbers decreased
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A. they should stay the same
B. up
C. down
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
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18. What are specific areas
occupied by a species at the time
of listing, that contain the
physical or biological features
essential to its conservation?
A. tropical rain forests
B. critical habitat
C. wetlands
20. Which of these is the biggest
threat to migratory ducks and
geese?
A. nutrient pollution from fertilizer
and manure runoff
B. habitat loss when wetlands
are filled in
C. harvesting gizzards for
traditional medicine markets
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
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22. What ususally happens to
the number of species an area
can support when the area
becomes smaller?
A. it stays the same
B. it goes down
C. it goes up
CORRECT: B, B
24. What is an event that
reduces the genetic diversity of a
popluation or species?
A. genetic modification
B. mutations
C. a genetic bottle neck
CORRECT: C, C
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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?
29. Which of these is an
inventory of the global
conservation status of a species
31. Who helps wild animals
reproduce in safe enviroments
like zoos or reserves and then
releases them into the wild?
A. local extinction
B. a genetic bottle neck
C. global species extinction
A. the Migratory Bird Treaty
B. the Basel Convention
C. the Endangered Species Act
A. the Toxics Release Inventory
B. the U.S. Endangered Species
List
C. the IUCN Red List
A. wildlife scientists
B. restoration ecologists
C. captive breeders
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27. Which of these is a
governmental factor that can
affect enforcement of laws to
protect species?
29. What is any act which
actually kills or injures wildlife,
including significant habitat
modification or degradation that
significantly impairs essential
behavior patterns?
31. Which of these led to the
decline and extintion of many
native plants in Australia?
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25. Which crop disaster was
caused by a lack of genetic
diversity in the crop?
A. the midwester Grasshopper
Swarm of 1931
B. the spread of the Boll Weevil
in cotton states 1915-1917
C. Irish Potato Famine of 1845 1847
A. whether a judge likes the law
B. whether a landowner cares
about the species
C. how much funding congress
provides
A. deforestation
B. over fishing
C. harm
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
A. habitat loss when rivers were
channelized and wetlands were
filled in
B. nutrient pollution from manure
and fertilizer runoff
C. the introduction of non-native
European rabbits
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
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26. What is the conservation
status of species whose numbers
are reduced over its range or
which is dependent on
conservation efforts to persist?
28. What are species that
depend on a species that has
gone extinct called?
30. What can the Endangered
Species Act require of landowners, developers and
businesses if an endangered
species if found on their
property?
32. Which of these is the main
cause of extinction worldwide?
A. that they give their land up
B. nothing
C. that they take reasonable
steps to protect them
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A. least concern
B. endangered
C. near threatened
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26. Who passes laws protecting
species, assigns protection to an
ageny and provides funding for
the agency?
A. the court system
B. agencies in the executive
branch
C. congress and legislatures
A. extinct in the wild
B. a mass extinction event
C. co-threatened
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28. What kind of government
initiative is developing Habitat
Conservation Plans that allow
landowners to continue to use
their land while minimizing harm
to endangered species?
A. economic incentives
B. education and information
C. research
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30. Who can identify the species
a fish fillet came from to tell if it
was illegally harvested?
A. sniffer dogs and their handlers
B. NOAA Fisheries observers
C. wildlife forensic scientists
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
A. pollution
B. legal hunting
C. habitat loss
32. Which of these caused the
collapse of orange roughy,
Chilean seabass and bluefin tuna
fish populations?
A. habitat loss whenwetlands
were filled in
B. nutrient pollution from fertilizer
and manure runoff
C. overfishing
CORRECT: C, C
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