Transcript Fish and Wildlife 2014

Fish and Wildlife
2014
1
This animal has no incisor in
its upper jaw?
• A) Muskrat
• B) Opossum
• C) Whitetail Deer
• D) Lynx
2
This animal can be considered
a pest when it burrows
destabilize the shorelines along
a lake
• A) Flying Squirrel
• B) Raccoon
• C) Muskrat
• D) Porcupine
3
This animal’s range used to
include all of the United State
except Hawaii
• A) Gray Wolf
• B) Snowshoe Hare
• C) Opossum
• D) Moose
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Which of these squirrels are
the most nocturnal?
• A) Flying Squirrels
• B) 13-Lined ground squirrel
• C) Red squirrel
• D) Fox squirrel
5
Which of these species
currently has the widest
distribution in Minnesota?
• A) Snowshoe Hare
• B) Gray Wolf
• C) Richardson’s ground squirrel
• D) Whitetail deer
6
This introduced species is
known for its ability to live
with people
• A) Black bear
• B) House mouse
• C) Norway Rat
• D) Both B and C
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Populations of this animal are
collapsing in Minnesota
• A) Jumping Mouse
• B) Gray Wolf
• C) Moose
• D) Jackrabbit
8
What best describes the diet of
an otter?
• A) Herbivore
• B) Omnivore
• C) Insectivore
• D) Carnivore
9
Which of these groups of
animals are known for their
ability to dig?
• A) Eastern Chipmunk, Badger, Frank
Squirrel
• B) Badger, Mole, Pocket Gopher
• C) Woodchuck, 13-lined ground squirrel
• D) All of the above
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Which of these animals is the
largest tree-climbing animal
found in Minnesota?
• A) Fox squirrel
• B) Porcupine
• C) Gray Fox
• D) Black Bear
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Which of these animals
typically has the largest litter of
young?
• A) Jumping Mouse
• B) Black Bear
• C) Otters
• D) Porcupine
12
Fox squirrels are native to
Minnesota
• A) True
• B) False
13
Red Fox eat fruit and insects?
• A) True
• B) False
14
Whitetail deer hunting season
begins in May?
• A) True
• B) False
15
Spotted Skunks stand on their
hands before spraying?
• A) True
• B) False
16
Which of these birds was
introduce into Minnesota?
• A) Red-winged blackbird
• B) Wilson’s Snipe
• C) Ruffed Grouse
• D) Ring-necked pheasant
17
There is not a hunting season
for this type of bird?
• A) Sharp-Shinned Hawk
• B) Great Horned Owl
• C) Blue Jay
• D) All of the above
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What best describes a Barred
Owl’s method of hunting?
• A) Circles high in the sky and dives
• B) Wades along the edge of the a lake
• C) Sits in a tree waiting to pounce
• D) Swims on the water surface
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Which of these birds lays the
smallest number of eggs per
clutch
• A) Mallard
• B) Eastern Bluebird
• C) Snow Geese
• D) Bald Eagle
20
What best describes a wood
duck’s nest?
• A) A loose grouping in branches high in
tall tree
• B) A hole in a tree
• C) A depression on the ground
• D) A tightly woven nest of grasses
21
Which of these birds migrates
south for the winter
• A) Blue Jay
• B) Cooper’s Hawk
• C) Barred Owl
• D) All of the above
22
Which of these birds have
offspring that are helpless after
hatching?
• A) Ruffed Grouse
• B) Great Blue Heron
• C) Ring-necked Pheasant
• D) Both A and C
23
Predation and Agricultural
activities are a significant
threat to nesting females of this
species of waterfowl?
• A) Snow Goose
• B) Pintail
• C) Scaup
• D) Wood Duck
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Populations of this northern
nesting bird have risen to the
point where they are damaging
their tundra nesting grounds?
• A) Red-tailed hawk
• B) Snow Goose
• C) Great Blue Heron
• D) Starling
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Humans help support this
cavity-nesting songbird by
building nest boxes?
• A) Eastern Bluebird
• B) Grackle
• C) Woodcock
• D) Blue Jays
26
Scaup are diving ducks?
• A) True
• B) False
27
Wild turkey have a spring and
fall hunting season?
• A) True
• B) False
28
Male Sharp-tailed grouse do
their mating displays in an area
called a lek
• A) True
• B) False
29
Wilson’s snipe are known for
eating large amounts of fruits
and berries?
• A) True
• B) False
30
A loon’s bones are very light
and buoyant helping them to
float on the surface of the
water?
• A) True
• B) False
31
The males of this fish build
nest and breed when the water
is between 60-70 degrees F
• A) Whitefish
• B) Creek Chub
• C) Rock Bass
• D) Brook Trout
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This fish has hard, diamond
shaped scales?
• A) Walleye
• B) Darter
• C) Gar
• D) Brown Trout
33
More of this fish are stocked
into Minnesota waters than
any other
• A) Rainbow Trout
• B) Northern Pike
• C) Walleye
• D) Sea Lamprey
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This fish spawns in the late fall
• A) Carp
• B) Sunfish
• C) Brook Trout
• D) Darter
35
Which of these fish is not
native to Minnesota?
• A) Brook Trout
• B) Carp
• C) Lake Trout
• D) B and C
36
This fish is a day-time hunter
and often hides in weed beds
• A) Walleye
• B) Creek Chub
• C) Northern Pike
• D) Rainbow Darter
37
This fish was introduced as a
prey species for other fish such
as salmon
• A) White Sucker
• B) Fathead Minnow
• C) Smelt
• D) Dogfish
38
The possession limit for Lake
Sturgeon is?
• A) 0
• B) 1
• C) 2
• D) 1, over 40 inches in length
39
This fish looks like a cross
between an eel and catfish
• A) Sturgeon
• B) Walleye
• C) Shiner Minnow
• D) Burbot
40
Adults of this fish live in the
Sargasso Sea
• A) Smelt
• B) Rainbow Trout
• C) American Eel
• D) Dogfish
41
A muskie has five or fewer
pores on the underside of its
jaw?
• A) True
• B) False
42
Flathead Catfish are easily
caught on spinner baits?
• A) True
• B) False
43
Yellow perch, carppies and
sunfish are all considered
“panfish”?
• A) True
• B) False
44
White suckers have huge
teeth?
• A) True
• B) False
45
The black crappie prefers clear
water and lots of vegetation?
• A) True
• B) False
46
What is the preferred food of
monarchs?
• A) Alfalfa
• B) Apples
• C) Milkweed
• D) All of the above
47
Which of the following insects
has a pupa stage?
• A) Carpenter Ant
• B) Dragonfly
• C) Katydid
• D) Springtail
48
Which insect order comprises
about 40% of all known
insects?
• A) Coleoptera
• B) Diptera
• C) Hymenoptera
• D) Lepidoptera
49
All of the following insects live
in the water as immature
insects and on land as adults
EXCEPT which?
• A) Caddisfly
• B) Mayfly
• C) Mosquito
• D) Rove Beetle
50
The legs are attached to which
body section of an insect?
• A) Head
• B) Thorax
• C) Abdomen
• D) Tarsus
51
Which of the following insects
is social (has a division of labor,
overlapping generations and
cooperative care of young)?
• A) Cicada
• B) Dragonfly
• C) Ichneumonid Wasp
• D) Yellowjacket
52
On what do mayflies feed?
• A) Small flies and other insects they catch
while flying
• B) Tiny mites found on plants
• C) Pollen and fungus
• D) They do not feed
53
Which of the following insects
are pollinators?
• A) Honey Bee
• B) Red Admiral
• C) Syrphid Fly
• D) All of the above
54
Where is the best place to find
a katydid?
• A) The edge of lakes and ponds
• B) In trees
• C) Wildflowers
• D) In the soil and leaf litter
55
To what order do crane flies
and mosquitoes belong to?
• A) Diptera
• B) Hymenoptera
• C) Lepidoptera
• D) Trichoptera
56
Which of the following insects
possess piercing sucking
mouthparts
• A) Cecropia
• B) Crane Fly
• C) Giant Water Bug
• D) Springtail
57
A grasshopper is a
phytophagous insect. What
does that mean?
• A) It has one generation per year
• B) It has two generations per year
• C) It feeds on insects
• D) It feeds on plants
58
How many wings do most
insects have?
• A) 0
• B) 2
• C) 4
• D) 6
59
I live most of my life, (4-8)
years underground feeding on
roots. I eventually emerge
during summer.
• A) Boxelder bug
• B) Cicada
• C) Ground Beetle
• D) Stink Bug
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