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2024/2025 Exam Questions and Answers
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Which of the following wetlands is dominated by emergent vegetation?
A. Marshes
B. Bogs
C. Swamps
D. None of the choices - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A. Marshes
A large plot of land in a grassland ecosystem was converted for agriculture.
After four decades of agricultural use the land was abandoned and began
to revert to its original grassland state. This is an example of which of the
following?
A. Primary succession
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,B. Secondary succession
C. Climax community
D. Ecosystem management - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔B. Secondary Succession
Which of the following best describes a niche?
A. How organisms interact between species
B. How organisms match and respond to environmental conditions
C. How an environment progresses a stage in succession
D. How individuals interact negatively between other individuals within the
same species - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔B. How organisms match and respond to
environmental conditions
Sophia is a biologist tasked with surveying for the red-cockaded
woodpecker which is listed as an endangered species. She knows the red-
cockaded woodpecker closely resembles other species of woodpeckers in
the area and wants to make sure she surveys correctly. Which family of
class Aves should Sophia study to sharpen identification skills of
woodpeckers?
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, A. Accipitridae
B. Picidae
C. Corvidae
D. Icteridae - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔B. Picidae
Select all waterfowl which generally migrate in family units.
Geese
Swans
Ducks - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Geese
Swans
Select the correct word from the two options in the underlined sections to
make the equation correct.
Change in population abundance = (births / deaths + immigration) - (births /
deaths + emigration) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) Birth and 2) Deaths
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& Management Certification Review
2024/2025 Exam Questions and Answers
| 100% Pass
Which of the following wetlands is dominated by emergent vegetation?
A. Marshes
B. Bogs
C. Swamps
D. None of the choices - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A. Marshes
A large plot of land in a grassland ecosystem was converted for agriculture.
After four decades of agricultural use the land was abandoned and began
to revert to its original grassland state. This is an example of which of the
following?
A. Primary succession
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,B. Secondary succession
C. Climax community
D. Ecosystem management - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔B. Secondary Succession
Which of the following best describes a niche?
A. How organisms interact between species
B. How organisms match and respond to environmental conditions
C. How an environment progresses a stage in succession
D. How individuals interact negatively between other individuals within the
same species - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔B. How organisms match and respond to
environmental conditions
Sophia is a biologist tasked with surveying for the red-cockaded
woodpecker which is listed as an endangered species. She knows the red-
cockaded woodpecker closely resembles other species of woodpeckers in
the area and wants to make sure she surveys correctly. Which family of
class Aves should Sophia study to sharpen identification skills of
woodpeckers?
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, A. Accipitridae
B. Picidae
C. Corvidae
D. Icteridae - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔B. Picidae
Select all waterfowl which generally migrate in family units.
Geese
Swans
Ducks - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Geese
Swans
Select the correct word from the two options in the underlined sections to
make the equation correct.
Change in population abundance = (births / deaths + immigration) - (births /
deaths + emigration) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) Birth and 2) Deaths
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