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