Environmental Science Quizs

The hooded warbler is what type of wetland species?

• Permanent

• Temporary

• Seasonal

• Migratory

Wetland rice production generates how much for the economy?

• 25 billion

• 30 billion

• 35 billion

• 40 billion

First federal law protecting wildlife

• Lacey Act

• Endangered Species Act

• Migratory Bird Treaty Act

• Wildlife Conservation Act

Year the Lacey Act was passed

• 1890

• 1900

• 1910

• 1920

Species saved from extinction by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918

• Snowy egret

• Bald eagle

• California condor

• American robin

Number of currently endangered species of waterfowl

• zero

• five

• ten

• twenty

Percentage of grasslands currently protected.

• Less than eight

• Around twenty

• More than fifty

• Approximately thirty

Duration of the Dust Bowl.

• 5 years

• 10 years

• 15 years

• 20 years

Average length of time incubation lasts

• 15 to 20 days

• 23 to 37 days

• 40 to 50 days

• 5 to 10 days

Year of the creation of the Clean Water and Air Act

• 1948

• 1965

• 1972

• 1980