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