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