WIS2552 EXAM 1 UF STUDY GUIDE
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
The === are passerine birds that forage by impaling small animals on
thorns - Answer✔️✔️-Shrikes
=== are species that are related to terns that feed by flying low with their
lower mandible in the water - Answer✔️✔️-Skimmers
There are ___ native species of crows and jays in New Zealand -
Answer✔️✔️-0
In the American Southwest as many as ____ Hummingbird species are
known to occur. - Answer✔️✔️-17
The Desert biome lies about ___ degrees north and south of the equator. -
Answer✔️✔️-30
According to one reference there are ___ species of Hummingbirds in Costa
Rica alone - Answer✔️✔️-51
North American grasslands once supported ____ Buffalo. - Answer✔️✔️-60
million
about half the species of birds in the world belong to the order -
Answer✔️✔️-passeriformes
about species of birds in the world - Answer✔️✔️-9700
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According to a book by Baldasarre, Bolen, and Sayre, a female Snow Goose
can lose up to _% of her body masss during the nesting cycle - Answer✔️✔️-
40
according to a team of researchers, giant tortoises once occurred on all the
continents except - Answer✔️✔️-australia
according to darwin's theory a bat's wing is homologous with a -
Answer✔️✔️-penguin flipper
according to lewis wolpert is the most important event in a person's life -
Answer✔️✔️-gastrulation
According to one reference there are--- species of Hummingbirds in Costa
Rica alone - Answer✔️✔️-51
according to the florida museum of natural history, there are species of
crocodilians worldwide - Answer✔️✔️-23
according to theory of "inheritance of acquired characteristics" individuals
transformed following - Answer✔️✔️-perceived environmental stress
according to theory of natural selection - Answer✔️✔️-ore individuals of a
species are born than can survive
Acid rain is a threat that has particularly affected _____ in North America -
Answer✔️✔️-temperate forests
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across the tundra the annual rainfall averages ___ per year - Answer✔️✔️-
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the african pygmy elephant appears to be morphologically similar to ____
of south america - Answer✔️✔️-capybara
african ratites introduced to australia - Answer✔️✔️-ostriches
african sleeping sickness is caused by a - Answer✔️✔️-protist
albatrosses are grouped with the - Answer✔️✔️-Shearwaters
all chordate characteristics are seen through the lives of the individual -
Answer✔️✔️-false
all members of the phylum chordata share characters - Answer✔️✔️-4
All owls are strictly nocturnal hunters - Answer✔️✔️-False
All plovers either lack or have a vestigial (=reduced) ___ - Answer✔️✔️-
Hallux
all turtles are egg layers - Answer✔️✔️-true
although extinct in the wild in the 1970s the arabian oryx has been
reintroduced to the nation of - Answer✔️✔️-oman
American Bitterns are in the same group as the - Answer✔️✔️-herons
american crocodile is still found on various islands in the caribbean -
Answer✔️✔️-true
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american crocodiles are widespread and abundant in florida - Answer✔️✔️-
false
ammonia is a gas and has chemical formula - Answer✔️✔️-nh3
among the amphibia several species are adapted for feeding on plants as
adults - Answer✔️✔️-false
the anhinga or snake bird is actually in the same order as the - Answer✔️✔️-
pelicans
anole is a common species introduced to florida - Answer✔️✔️-cuban
another name for primary producers - Answer✔️✔️-autotroph
The ____ appears to be a species that is declining due to protection of
forests from succession - Answer✔️✔️-Rufous-sided Towhee
the archenteron forms from the - Answer✔️✔️-blastocoel
____ are arboreal foliovores of the australian temperate forests -
Answer✔️✔️-koalas
___ are a species that are related to Terns that feed by flying low with their
lower mandable in the water - Answer✔️✔️-skimmers
______ are a species that is causing widespread destruction of habitat in the
Tundra - Answer✔️✔️-snow geese
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