Types of Ecosystems
  • 1. There are basically how many types of Ecosystems?
A) Eleven
B) Three
C) Two
D) Seven
  • 2. Terrestrial Ecosystems are
A) Freshwater
B) Marine
C) Land
D) Ocean
  • 3. Aquatic Ecosystems are
A) Land
B) Tundras
C) Ocean
D) Forests
  • 4. How many Forest Ecosystems did we talk about?
A) Nine
B) Five
C) Three
D) Two
  • 5. What are the two temperature systems we talked about?
A) Polar and Desert
B) Tropical and Temperate
C) Tundra and Taiga
D) Deciduous and Evergreen
  • 6. Tropical Evergreen Forests receive how much rain each year?
A) An average amount
B) A large amount
C) None at all
D) Very little
  • 7. When we discussed the vegetation in Tropical Ecosystems we know the vegetation will be
A) Devoid
B) Sparse
C) Some
D) Dense
  • 8. What forests do we have around NC?
A) Tropical Evergreen
B) Temperate Evergreen
C) Temperate deciduous
D) Tropical deciduous
  • 9. What temperatures should we expect in Tropical Ecosystems?
A) Hot during the day and cold at nights
B) Cold six months out of the year
C) Definite Summer and Definite Winter
D) Warm or Hot all year long
  • 10. In the Taiga, what animals will you see?
A) There are no animals
B) Lions, tigers, and bears
C) insets and migratory birds
D) Bears, birds, and buffalo
  • 11. What is another word for plants?
A) Flora
B) Fauna
C) Profundals
D) Cephalopods
  • 12. What is another word for animals, insects, and other living creatures?
A) Fauna
B) Vegetation
C) Flora
D) Profundals
  • 13. Which Forest Ecosystem has Non-Vascular Plants in them as a majority?
A) Temperate Deciduous
B) Tropical Evergreen
C) Tropical Deciduous
D) Temperate Evergreen
  • 14. Desert Ecosystems receive how much rain a year?
A) An average amount
B) Very little
C) A large amount
D) None at all
  • 15. Deserts occupy approximately how much of all the land on Earth?
A) 1/5
B) 1/2
C) 3/4
D) all of the land
  • 16. The main vegetation also known as succulents are also called
A) cacti
B) road runners
C) scorpions
D) desert roses
  • 17. What parts of the plants in the desert have adapted to preserve water?
A) Roots and Flowers
B) Stems and Leaves
C) Leaves and Flowers
D) Stems and Roots
  • 18. Animals you will see in a desert?
A) Bears, lions, road runners, and coyotes
B) Bugs bunny, daffy duck, foghorn leghorn, and a chicken hawk
C) Snakes, alligators, skunks, and frogs
D) Camels, birds, insects, and reptiles
  • 19. How many Grasslands did we discuss?
A) Three
B) Five
C) Nineteen
D) Two
  • 20. Vegetation found in Grasslands include
A) Beans, grasses, and plants belonging to a composite group
B) Canopy of tall trees, dense shrubs, and bushes
C) Grasses, shrubs, and cacti
D) Cacti, Trees, and Beans
  • 21. Animals TYPES you will find will be
A) Herbivores, Grazing animals, and insectivores
B) Lions, Tigers, and Bears
C) Insectivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores
D) Omnivores, Carnivores, and Cannibals
  • 22. Savannas has seasonally
A) Cold and Hot
B) Tropical and Temperate
C) Dry and wet
D) Arctic and Tropical
  • 23. There are NO Predators in a Savanna?
A) Neither
B) True
C) False
  • 24. Savannas are Temperate
A) True
B) False
C) Neither
  • 25. Prairies are Temperate
A) False
B) Neither
C) True
  • 26. Prairies are completely devoid of Trees?
A) True
B) Neither
C) False
  • 27. Prairie vegetation can be categorized as
A) Tall Grasses Only
B) Tall, Mixed, and short grasses
C) Mixed and Short Trees Only
D) Tall, Mixed, and Short Trees
  • 28. What type of elevation are we talking about in Mountain Ecosystems
A) Mountains only have a base and no apex
B) High and Low
C) Mountains only have high elevations there is no base of the mountain
D) Shallow and Deep
  • 29. Why are the environments harsh in the Mountain Ecosystem?
A) The Cold weather and Thin Oxygen Levels
B) The warm weather and constant snow
C) The lack of rain and heat
D) The constant snow and abominable snowman
  • 30. What do the animals have for protection?
A) An Electric Heater
B) Thick Skin
C) They don't have any protection
D) Thick Fur
  • 31. The lower slopes of the Mountains Ecosystem are covered with?
A) Dense Shrubs and Bushes
B) Coniferous Forests
C) Deciduous Forests
D) Dense thickets and cacti
  • 32. How many Aquatic Ecosystems are there?
A) Five
B) Two
C) Four
D) Three
  • 33. In Marine Ecosystems there are dissolved what?
A) Salts and Minerals
B) Salts only
C) Minerals and Vitamins
D) Sugar and Candy
  • 34. The items dissolved in the Marine Ecosystems are in what concentration?
A) They never dissolve
B) Medium
C) High
D) Low
  • 35. The Marine Ecosystem is the
A) Largest of all the Ecosystems
B) Freshwater Tributaries
C) Most polluted
D) The smallest of all the Ecosystems
  • 36. Estuaries which are also known as Tributaries do what?
A) Feed the smaller bodies of water
B) Are another name for small lakes
C) Feed the larger bodies of water
D) Are where the fish go the breed
  • 37. What comes out of Hydro-Thermal Vents
A) Cool air and water
B) Super heated air and water
C) Volcanic Lava
D) Flora and Fauna
  • 38. Coral Reefs are NOT part of the Marine Ecosystem?
A) False
B) True
C) Neither
  • 39. What is the Inter-tidal part of the Marine Ecosystem?
A) The relatively shallow part of the ocean
B) The estuaries
C) The area between the high and low tides
D) The Salt Marshes
  • 40. Algae, dinoflagellates, corals, and cephalopods are found in what system?
A) Marine
B) Tundras
C) Hydro-Thermal Vents
D) Freshwater
  • 41. How many divisions are in the Freshwater Ecosystems?
A) Fifteen
B) Five
C) Three
D) One
  • 42. The Marine Ecosystem covers about how much of the Earth's surface?
A) 1/5
B) All of the Earth
C) 3/4
D) 1/2
  • 43. The Freshwater Ecosystem has approximately how many of the worlds species of Fish?
A) 1/4
B) 1/5
C) 3/4
D) 1/2
  • 44. How much of the Earth's surface is covered by Freshwater?
A) 10%
B) Less than 1%
C) 50%
D) 90%
  • 45. What kind of water is found in the Lentic system?
A) All the estuaries found in the Marine Ecosystem
B) Still or slow moving water like pools, ponds, and lakes
C) Fast-moving water like streams and rivers
D) Water willed with chemosynthetic bacteria
  • 46. What kind of water is found in the Lotic system?
A) Fast-moving water like streams and rivers
B) Still or slow moving water like pools, ponds, and lakes
C) All the estuaries found in the Marine Ecosystem
D) Water willed with chemosynthetic bacteria
  • 47. Wetlands are described as what?
A) places where there is very dry areas
B) places of fast-moving water
C) places of slow moving water
D) places where the soil is saturated for at least some time
  • 48. Faster moving turbulent waters are best for what?
A) making kool-aide in a canoe
B) breeding chemosynthetic bacteria
C) greater concentrations of dissolved oxygen
D) lesser concentrations of dissolved oxygen
  • 49. Your project is going to be an what types of animals or plants?
A) Endangered
B) Rare
C) Common
D) Extinct
  • 50. Wetlands are protected now because we have destroyed so many to build houses and develop "good land"
A) True
B) False
C) They are not protected
D) They are extinct
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