phurtado
Quiz by , created more than 1 year ago

Quiz on Biodiversity, created by phurtado on 17/11/2015.

3
0
0
phurtado
Created by phurtado almost 9 years ago
Close

Biodiversity

Question 1 of 60

1

TERRITORIAL BIOMES

Select one of the following:

  • Biological communities areas to sharing climate conditions, growth patterns, vegetation types, soil conditions, topographic.

  • Biological productivity which is a varies greatly from one biomes to another

Explanation

Question 2 of 60

1

TROPICAL RAINFOREST

Select one of the following:

  • Near to Earth's equator. A lot of precipitation. Rainfall is abundant. High mountain fog and mist.

  • Have wet and dry season. Called dry tropical forest. Green during rainy. Have a seasonal climate.

  • Mediterranean. Dry summers and cool, moist winters. Dry subtropical. Warm temperature. Southwestern north America.

  • Low moisture levels. Precipitation is unpredictable. Productivity low. Water limited factor. Slow growing. Temperature wide daily. Very hot days, vet coolest nights.

  • Precipitation important element. Precipitation can fall in rain or snow. The average influenced by the nearby ocean. Diverse temperate

  • High levels of precipitation. Humidity. Wide leaves. Non seasonal vegetation

  • Little rainfall. Rainy season. During dry season is fired

  • Few tress due to rainfall. Seasonal temperatures. Frequent grass fires. Tropical latitudes. Humid areas. Farming.

  • Winter cold temperatures. Lower latitudes. High altitudes. Dominant tress are pines, cedar. Canada

  • Cold temperature. High altitudes. Water is frozen. Small plants. Low diversity and productivity

Explanation

Question 3 of 60

1

TROPICAL SEASONAL FOREST

Select one of the following:

  • Mediterranean. Dry summers and cool, moist winters. Dry subtropical. Warm temperature. Southwestern north America.

  • Near to Earth's equator. A lot of precipitation. Rainfall is abundant. High mountain fog and mist.

  • Low moisture levels. Precipitation is unpredictable. Productivity low. Water limited factor. Slow growing. Temperature wide daily. Very hot days, vet coolest nights.

  • Have wet and dry season. Called dry tropical forest. Green during rainy. Have a seasonal climate.

Explanation

Question 4 of 60

1

DESERT

Select one of the following:

  • Low moisture levels. Precipitation is unpredictable. Productivity low. Water limited factor. Slow growing. Temperature wide daily. Very hot days, vet coolest nights.

  • Precipitation important element. Precipitation can fall in rain or snow. The average influenced by the nearby ocean. Diverse temperate

  • High levels of precipitation. Humidity. Wide leaves. Non seasonal vegetation

Explanation

Question 5 of 60

1

TEMPERATE REINFOREST

Select one of the following:

  • Precipitation important element. Precipitation can fall in rain or snow. The average influenced by the nearby ocean. Diverse temperate. Pacific Northwest

  • High levels of precipitation. Humidity. Wide leaves. Non seasonal vegetation

  • Low moisture levels. Precipitation is unpredictable. Productivity low. Water limited factor. Slow growing. Temperature wide daily. Very hot days, vet coolest nights.

Explanation

Question 6 of 60

1

TEMPERATE FOREST

Select one of the following:

  • High levels of precipitation. Humidity. Wide leaves. Non seasonal vegetation

  • Little rainfall. Rainy season. During dry season is fired

  • Few tress due to rainfall. Seasonal temperatures. Frequent grass fires. Tropical latitudes. Humid areas. Farming.

Explanation

Question 7 of 60

1

SAVANNA

Select one of the following:

  • Little rainfall. Rainy season. During dry season is fired

  • Few tress due to rainfall. Seasonal temperatures. Frequent grass fires. Tropical latitudes. Humid areas. Farming.

  • Winter cold temperatures. Lower latitudes. High altitudes. Dominant tress are pines, cedar. Canada

Explanation

Question 8 of 60

1

GRASSLANDS

Select one of the following:

  • Few tress due to rainfall. Seasonal temperatures. Frequent grass fires. Tropical latitudes. Humid areas. Farming.

  • Winter cold temperatures. Lower latitudes. High altitudes. Dominant tress are pines, cedar. Canada

  • Mediterranean. Dry summers and cool, moist winters. Dry subtropical. Warm temperature. Southwestern north America.

Explanation

Question 9 of 60

1

BOREAL FOREST

Select one of the following:

  • Winter cold temperatures. Lower latitudes. High altitudes. Dominant tress are pines, cedar. Canada

  • Cold temperature. High altitudes. Water is frozen. Small plants. Low diversity and productivity

  • Near to Earth's equator. A lot of precipitation. Rainfall is abundant. High mountain fog and mist.

Explanation

Question 10 of 60

1

TUNDRA

Select one of the following:

  • Cold temperature. High altitudes. Water is frozen. Small plants. Low diversity and productivity

  • Winter cold temperatures. Lower latitudes. High altitudes. Dominant tress are pines, cedar. Canada

  • Little rainfall. Rainy season. During dry season is fired

Explanation

Question 11 of 60

1

MOST IMPORTANT FACTOS BIOME DISTRIBUTIONS

Select one of the following:

  • Temperature and Precipitation

  • Precipitation and Altitude

  • Altitude and Latitude

  • Latitude and Temperature

Explanation

Question 12 of 60

1

TROPICAL THORN OR WOODLANDS

Select one of the following:

  • Mediterranean. Dry summers and cool, moist winters. Dry subtropical. Warm temperature. Southwestern north America.

  • Precipitation important element. Precipitation can fall in rain or snow. The average influenced by the nearby ocean. Diverse temperate. Pacific Northwest

  • Few tress due to rainfall. Seasonal temperatures. Frequent grass fires. Tropical latitudes. Humid areas. Farming.

Explanation

Question 13 of 60

1

CRITICAL AQUATIC CHARACTERISTICS

Select one or more of the following:

  • Dissolved Substances

  • Change the matter

  • Depth

  • Temperature

  • Flow rate

  • Precipitation

  • Altitude

  • Latitude

Explanation

Question 14 of 60

1

FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Select one or more of the following:

  • Water ponds

  • Lakes

  • Rivers

  • Streams

  • Ponds

  • Estuaries

  • Salt marshes

Explanation

Question 15 of 60

1

MARINE ECOSYSTEM

Select one or more of the following:

  • Most biological rich ecosystems

  • Diversity

  • Endangered communities

  • Photosynthesis - Phytoplankton

  • Susceptible to the change

  • Ocean diversity

Explanation

Question 16 of 60

1

WETLANDS

Select one of the following:

  • Covered with water. Water saturate change the soil. Oxidization reaction,

  • Body water surrounded by land

  • Water that form where rivers enter to the ocean. Sediments around. River empty into the sea. Fresh water + Salt water.

Explanation

Question 17 of 60

1

Swamps

Select one of the following:

  • With tress

  • Without tress

  • Soil accumulate to produce peat for energy

Explanation

Question 18 of 60

1

Marshes

Select one of the following:

  • Soil accumulate to produce peat for energy

  • Without trees

  • With tress

Explanation

Question 19 of 60

1

Boys and fens

Select one of the following:

  • With tress

  • Without tress

  • Soil accumulate to produce peat for energy

Explanation

Question 20 of 60

1

Lakes

Select one of the following:

  • Body water surrounded by land

  • Body formed naturally smaller than a lake

  • Natural steam of water flowing in a define course

Explanation

Question 21 of 60

1

Ponds

Select one of the following:

  • Body formed naturally smaller than a lake

  • Natural steam of water flowing in a define course

  • Soil accumulate to produce peat for energy

Explanation

Question 22 of 60

1

Rivers

Select one of the following:

  • Natural steam of water flowing in a define course

  • Body formed naturally smaller than a lake

  • Coastal wetlands. Where the freshwater mixed with seawater.

Explanation

Question 23 of 60

1

Estuaries

Select one of the following:

  • Water that form where rivers enter to the ocean. Sediments around. River empty into the sea. Fresh water + Salt water.

  • Coastal wetlands. Where the freshwater mixed with seawater.

  • Covered with water. Water saturate change the soil. Oxidization reaction,

Explanation

Question 24 of 60

1

Salt marshes

Select one of the following:

  • Coastal wetlands. Where the freshwater mixed with seawater.

  • Salt tolerant trees that grown along warm, calm marine coasts. Roots systems.

  • Natural steam of water flowing in a define course

Explanation

Question 25 of 60

1

MANGROVES

Select one of the following:

  • Salt tolerant trees that grown along warm, calm marine coasts. Roots systems.

  • Most biological rich ecosystem. Colonial organisms

  • Change to white when it is stress

Explanation

Question 26 of 60

1

CORAL REEFS

Select one of the following:

  • Most biological rich ecosystem. Colonial organisms

  • Change to white when it is stress

  • Body formed naturally smaller than a lake

Explanation

Question 27 of 60

1

CORAL BLEACHING

Select one of the following:

  • Change to white when it is stress

  • Most biological rich ecosystem. Colonial organisms

  • Coastal wetlands. Where the freshwater mixed with seawater.

Explanation

Question 28 of 60

1

BIODIVERSITY

Select one of the following:

  • Variety of living things

  • Measure of different versions of same genes within individual species

  • Number of different kinds of organisms into a community

  • Measure richness and complexity of a community.

Explanation

Question 29 of 60

1

GENETIC DIVERSITY

Select one of the following:

  • Measure of different versions of same genes within individual species

  • Number of different kinds of organisms into a community

  • Measure richness and complexity of a community.

Explanation

Question 30 of 60

1

SPECIES DIVERSITY

Select one of the following:

  • Measure richness and complexity of a community.

  • Number of different kinds of organisms into a community

  • Measure of different versions of same genes within individual species

  • Variety of living things

Explanation

Question 31 of 60

1

BENEFITS OF DIVERSITY

Select one or more of the following:

  • Water

  • Drug

  • Medicine

  • Air purification

  • Cycling

  • Genetic

  • Solar energy

  • Descomposition

  • Ecotourism

  • Fishing

Explanation

Question 32 of 60

1

Pharming

Select one of the following:

  • Animals and plant to pharmaceutical products

  • Invertebrate is a 70%.

  • Organism where they are not native.

Explanation

Question 33 of 60

1

How many species are estimated of exist

Select one of the following:

  • 1.7 million species identified

  • 1300 Species and 250 in consideration.

  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species- how many needs to increase?

Explanation

Question 34 of 60

1

Specie most discovered

Select one of the following:

  • Invertebrate

  • Insect

  • Mammals

Explanation

Question 35 of 60

1

Causes of reduction

Select one or more of the following:

  • Habitat destruction

  • Degradation

  • Fragmentation

  • Hunting and fishing

  • Commercial

  • Predator

  • Prey

Explanation

Question 36 of 60

1

Extinction

Select one or more of the following:

  • Elimination of a species

  • Natural causes of extinction

  • Fragmentation

  • Habitat destruction

Explanation

Question 37 of 60

1

Extinction increase

Select one of the following:

  • The human impact have accelerated hundred to thousand extinctions annually

  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species- how many needs to increase?

  • Fist area protect wild nature. First National Park in the world. Wildlife and wilderness.

Explanation

Question 38 of 60

1

More frequent commercial products is

Select one of the following:

  • Reptiles, Mammals, Birds, Fish

  • Fish, mammals, birds, reptiles

Explanation

Question 39 of 60

1

Exotic Organism

Select one of the following:

  • Organism where they are not native.

  • Natural causes of extinction

  • Animals and plant to pharmaceutical products

Explanation

Question 40 of 60

1

Examples of Exotic organism

Select one or more of the following:

  • Kudzu Vine

  • Leafy spurge

  • Purple Loosestrife

  • Zebra mussels

  • Mammals

  • Reptiles

  • Invertebrate

Explanation

Question 41 of 60

1

Permian period

Select one of the following:

  • All marine species, plans and animals

  • Reptiles, Mammals, Birds, Fish

  • The human impact have accelerated hundred to thousand extinctions annually

Explanation

Question 42 of 60

1

Biodiversity hotspot

Select one of the following:

  • Is a bio geographic region that is both a significant and high biodiversity and is threatened with destruction.

  • Engendered imminent danger or extinct species. Threatened become engendered in the future. Regulates a wide range of activities

  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species- how many needs to increase?

Explanation

Question 43 of 60

1

Biodiversity hotspot

Select one of the following:

  • Tropical rain forest.

  • Coral reefs.

  • Mammals

  • Reptiles

  • Invertebrates

Explanation

Question 44 of 60

1

Endangered Species Act (ESA

Select one or more of the following:

  • Engendered imminent danger or extinct species

  • Threatened become engendered in the future. Regulates a wide range of activities

  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species- how many needs to increase?

  • Preserve and protect the wild nature places

Explanation

Question 45 of 60

1

Engendered imminent danger or extinct species

Select one of the following:

  • Endangered Species Act (ESA)

  • Minimum Viable Populations

  • 1300 Species and 250 in consideration

Explanation

Question 46 of 60

1

Some activities involve endangered species

Select one or more of the following:

  • Taking

  • Selling

  • Importing and exporting to U.S

  • Possessing

  • Transporting or shipping

  • Tropical rainforest

  • Coral reefs

Explanation

Question 47 of 60

1

How many species are estimated endangered?:

Select one of the following:

  • 1300 Species and 250 in consideration

  • 1.7 million species identified

Explanation

Question 48 of 60

1

Recovery plan

Select one of the following:

  • Rebuilding of the species to sustainable levels

  • Preserve and protect the wild nature places

  • Ecologist observed growing elk population.

Explanation

Question 49 of 60

1

MVP

Select one or more of the following:

  • Minimum Viable Populations

  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species

  • how many needs to increase?

  • President Ulysses Grant 1872

  • Engendered imminent danger or extinct species

Explanation

Question 50 of 60

1

What are the problems associated with parks

Select one or more of the following:

  • Become islands

  • Destructive lands

  • Growing human population

  • Park Boundaries

  • Rebuilding of the species to sustainable levels

  • Ecologist observed growing elk population.

Explanation

Question 51 of 60

1

What is the purpose of parks and preserves

Select one of the following:

  • Preserve and protect the wild nature places

  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species

  • Rebuilding of the species to sustainable levels

  • Engendered imminent danger or extinct species

Explanation

Question 52 of 60

1

Yellowstone National Park

Select one or more of the following:

  • Fist area protect wild nature

  • First National Park in the world

  • Wildlife and wilderness.

  • how many needs to increase?

  • Rebuilding of the species to sustainable levels

Explanation

Question 53 of 60

1

Designed Yellowstone Park

Select one of the following:

  • President Ulysses Grant 1872

  • Recreation, Historic, Conservation, Pristine, inviolable.

  • Single Large or Several Small

Explanation

Question 54 of 60

1

Shape and size of preserves

Select one of the following:

  • Recreation, Historic, Conservation, Pristine , inviolable.

  • inviolable.Pristine Recreation, Historic, Conservation

  • Recreation, Historic, Pristine , inviolable. Conservation,

Explanation

Question 55 of 60

1

SLOSS

Select one of the following:

  • Single Large or Several Small

  • Destructive harvest method.

  • Connected areas

Explanation

Question 56 of 60

1

Core habitat:

Select one of the following:

  • Destructive harvest method.

  • Connected areas

Explanation

Question 57 of 60

1

Coral Reefs:

Select one of the following:

  • Temperature change. Fishing method. Coral mining. Human disturbance.

  • Destructive harvest method.

Explanation

Question 58 of 60

1

Coral Reefs

Select one of the following:

  • Temperature change. Fishing method. Coral mining. Human disturbance.

  • Excessively large ungulate populations degraded the range of massive die-off occurred in severe winters

Explanation

Question 59 of 60

1

How long have they existed and how important are parks, preserves, and marine preserves?

Select one of the following:

  • 130 years begun preserve wild places.

  • Park: President Ulysses Grant 1872

Explanation

Question 60 of 60

1

Why has parks eliminated “bad” animals for “good” ones?

Select one of the following:

  • To create an illusion balance of a natural system into the ecosystem. Excessively large populations.

  • Fist area protect wild nature. First National Park in the world. Wildlife and wilderness.

  • Minimum population long-term viability of a species- how many needs to increase?

Explanation

Previous
Next