Unit 2: Quiz Life Sciences

An environmental group needs a plan to protect endangered plants that are being eaten by rabbits. Which plan is best for protecting the endangered plants and not hurting the rabbits?

• Putting poison around the plants.

• Relocating the rabbits to a new area.

• Remove the endangered plants completely from that area.

• Introduce wolves to the area.

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True or False: Bison used to be a natural creature in Ohio.

• True

• False

True or False: By 1839, almost all farms have been replaced by forests.

• True

• False

Which answer correctly shows the order in which they were eliminated from Ohio. They should be in order from first to last.

• bison, elk, bobcats, wolves, mountain lions, black bear

• elk, bison, mountain lions, bears, wolves

• bobcats, wolves, mountain lions, bison, black bear, elk

• black bear, elk, bison, mountain lions, bobcats, wolves

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Sheep and goats were brought to an island by human settlers. Some years later, a native plant to that island went extinct because it only grew on that island. Which of the following explains how the sheep and goats most likely made the plant extinct?

• They introduced diseases to the plants.

• They ate too many plants.

• They competed with the plants for sunlight and water.

• They spread seeds from the plants around the island.

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In what year was the Great Black Swamp drained in Ohio?

• 1803

• 1840

• 1855

• 1875

True or False: Ohio used to have millions more trees, but they were cut down by humans.

• True

• False

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True or False: white-tailed deer and wild turkeys were at one time extinct in Ohio.

• True

• False

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In what year were coyotes first seen in Ohio?

• 1803

• 1900

• 1909

• 1919

True or False: River Otters are put on the endangered species list in 2002.

• True

• False