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WorksheetsGabby's Quiz of bill nye and lions
Total questions: 115
Worksheet time: 1hrs 14mins
What river empties the Great Lakes?
Mississippi River
St. Lawrence River
Hudson River
Maple River
Which region is known as the "Breadbasket of Canada"?
Prairie Provinces
Maritime Provinces
Core Provinces
Pacific Provinces
What natural resource would you find in the Grand Banks?
Oil
Minerals
Fish
Magic
What is the only province that touches the Pacific Ocean?
Quebec
Alberta
Manitoba
British Columbia
What 2 provinces do the Rocky Mountains run through?
British Columbia and Alberta
Quebec and Ontario
Saskatchewan and Manitoba
Newfoundland and New Brunswick
What province is the city of Vancouver in?
Alberta
British Columbia
Newfoundland
Quebec
The Boreal Forest helps what industry in Canada?
Mining
Farming
Lumber
Fishing
Where do most people in Canada live, due to the subarctic climate in the north?
The Northern Territories
Along the Pacific Coast
Along the US Border
Along the Atlantic Coast
What is the Canadian Shield?
An area with rich soil for farming
A rich fishing area
An area with rocky soil
A National Forest in Canada
What country does Canada share the Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, and Great Plains with?
Russia
United States
Mexico
Britain
What is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa
Toronto
Vancouver
Eh?
What makes Nunavut unique?
It is the only territory in Canada
It was created for the Inuit
It has a tropical climate
It is the location of Canada's capital
What is the French Canadian province, where most people speak French?
Quebec
British Columbia
Ontario
Saskatchewan
What is the name of Canada’s leader?
President
Governor
The Wizard
Prime Minister
How is Canada’s relationship with Britain today?
Poor, Britain fought the 7 Years War with Canada
Great, Canada is a part of the British Commonwealth
Poor, Canada does not listen to the Queen of England
Great, Canada has the same national anthem as Britain
What are provinces?
Canada's money
Canada's leader
Canada's political divisions
Canada's capital
What region is considered the center of Canada’s economy? (Hint: It has a strong financial and industrial sector)
Core Provinces
Prairie Provinces
Maritime Provinces
Pacific Provinces
Which 2 European nations are responsible for settling Canada?
Italy and Germany
United States and Mexico
Britain and France
Russia and Ukraine
Which explorers settled along the St. Lawrence River in Canada?
Cartier and Champlain
Lewis and Clark
Cook and Polo
Potter and Weasley
Which natural resource was important to the exploration of Canada?
Furniture
Oil
Fish
Fur
Which line of evidence was most pivotal in determining parentage?
Geographic data
Observations
Karyotype
Genotype data
Which of the following most correctly describes a karyotype?
An organized picture of chromosomes
An organized picture of alleles
An organized picture of genes
An organized picture of DNA
Which of the following most correctly describes an allele?
A version of a gene
A collection of DNA
A chromosome from a parent
A picture of an individual's genes
Can an individual organism have two different alleles for the same trait?
If an organism has the following alleles for a trait - A/B, which of the following statements is true?
The mom can be A/B
and the dad can be B/C
The mom can be A/A
and the dad can be C/C
The mom can be B/B
and the dad can be B/C
The mom can be B/B
and the dad can be C/C
True or false, lions can move from pride to pride?
Phylogenetic Tree
Belonging to a particular region
A diagram that shows the evolutionary relationship of different groups.
Move from one place to another
An individual inherits DIFFERENT alleles for a particular gene from both parents (BC, Bb)
If a cub carries the alleles O/M at FCA71, who cannot be the father?
120 only
133 only
120 or 133
It is impossible to tell
Looking only at FCA40, which combos of alleles are possible in a cub?
A/A only
A/A or A/C
A/C only
None of these
Why do lions benefit from living in a group?
They can divide the labor of parenting and hunting
They are less likely to be seen
They are more likely to encounter poachers
They can wander for miles
Plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create sugars using what process?
Cellular Respiration
Photosynthesis
Decomposition
Nitrogen fixation
What do the branching points on a phylogenetic tree represent?
time
a shared common ancestor
members of the same species
interbreeding among different species
How can this DNA evidence be used when comparing lion prides?
It can be used to determine relatedness among prides to see which prides are the most genetically similar.
It can be used to determine whether individuals are members of the same species.
It can be used to determine if a species is extinct.
It can be used to determine the number of lions in a pride.
Does the genetic data support the geographic data for the lion prides?
Yes, in general, prides that live closer geographically are more genetically similar.
No, most of the prides that live close geographically are genetically different.
Which of the following most accurately describes the food preferences/hunting style for lions?
Lions prefer to hunt a single large prey item and eat from that prey for multiple days.
Lions prefer to hunt many small prey throughout the day and consume each prey quickly after catching it.
Lions prefer to hunt 3-4 medium sized prey each day.
Lions prefer to hunt on their own and do not share their prey with members of their pride.
Which of the following is the most likely scenario for a lion hunting prey?
Lions prefer to hunt wildebeest and zebra 1-2 times per day compared to multiple hunts for meerkat or warthogs.
Lions prefer to hunt many meerkats each day.
Lions prefer to hunt 3-4 warthogs per day.
Lions are herbivores and prefer to eat grass all day.
What do herbivores eat?
plants
plants and animals
animals
bacteria
which animal can weight 30 stones
lion
leopard
panther
tiger
What is a group of lions called?
herd
school
pride
huddle
True or False: Lions are a type of cat.
True
False
How long do lions live for?
18-20 years
0-5 years
10-20 years
25-40 years
What is the name of the hair around a male lion's head?
(a)
Where do lions live?
Europe
Oceania
Antarctica
Africa
What is the name given to a group of lions?
Pride
Herd
Flock
Tower
Which lions are the main hunters?
Males
Females
They work together.
How many babies do lions tend to give birth to?
Just 1
1-4
5-8
8-12
What are baby lions called?
(a)
Lions are...
Herbivores
Carnivores
Omnivores
Are lions really active or do the sleep lots?
Really active
Sleep lots
How long can a Lion live for?
18-20 years
10-20 years
7-45 years
25-40 years
How does the hair matter of the gender of the Lion?
Girls have a Maine and Boys have a Maine.
Males have a Maine and Females do not.
It doesn't really matter. They look the same to me.
They can run (what) miles per hour?
236 miles
56 miles
35 miles
29 miles
Lions breathe out of their legs. Is that true?
Yes!
No!
Lions have claws. True or False?
True
False
What is located at their bottom?
the legs
a maine
the nose
a tail
Of all the millions of dinosaurs that lived, we only know about __________________.
a few hundred
a few thousand
a handful
a few zillion
We know about dinosaurs beacause we found their fossilized____________
shoes
brains
blood
bones
To become a fossil, an organism is usually buried by_______________
volcanoes
water
erosion
lava
True or false? We have found nests and eggs from dinosaurs.
True
False
The first clue that dinosaurs existed at one point was their_____________ buried in rock.
sneakers
waste
food
bones
Which is not something that helps scientists learn about dinosaurs?
how deep the bones are buried
the color of the nearby flowers
what is near them in rock layer
how long they were buried
Many scientist believe ________________ from space played a role in dinosaur extinction.
stars
planets
supernovas
meteorites
What blocked the sunlight and contributed to dinosaur extinction?
huge plant leaves
dust from a meteorite crashing into Earth
tall mountains
100 days of rain clouds
True or false? Dinosaurs and humans never lived at the same time.
True
False
Which are dinosaurs most similar to ?
mammals
amphibians
fish
chickens
We can learn about how dinosaurs moved from their _____________________
cave art
foot prints
nail polish colors
stomach size
Elements that are ____________________ help us figure out the age of fossils.
stable
warm
liquid
radioactive
A scientist who studies fossils of dinosaurs is a _______________
chemist
botanist
paleontologist
archaeologist
One reason to study dinosaurs is because they lived in their own _____________________________
country
ecosystem
pod
continent
The Earth began about ___________________
10,000 years ago
100,000 years ago
65 million years ago
4.6 billion years ago
Dinosaurs became extinct approximately
65 million years ago
4.6 billion years ago
25, 000 years ago
165 million years ago
The word fossil is Latin for ___________
something extinct
something that has been dug up
something old
something rocky
Which is NOT something fossils tell us about dinosaurs?
how big they were
what they ate
how fast they could run
the color of their outer covering
When minerals work their way into the little gaps in bones, they become______________
softer
cooler
rainbow colored
per-mineralized,
meaning minerals all the way through
Scientists measure the amounts of radioactive Potassium and Argon to _____________
figure out what dinosaurs ate
determine the height of the dinosaur
figure out when the fossil was buried and the age of the fossil
determine the weight of a dinosaur
The Earth's seasons affect every living thing on Earth.
True
False
We have seasons on Earth because...
we are so close to the sun.
of Earth's tilt and revolution around the sun.
of gravity.
of electricity.
What is the imaginary line that passes through the middle of the Earth (from North to South) called?
current
compass
lever
axis
When we are on the part of the Earth that is tilted toward the sun, what season is it?
Winter
Summer
When the part of the Earth that we are on is tilted away from the sun, what season is it?
Winter
Summer
The North and South Poles are the _________ places on Earth.
coldest
warmest
Solar panels convert light directly into:
gravity.
magnets.
electricity.
weather.
During which season do we get the warmest weather?
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
What TWO things cause season?
Earth's orbit around the Sun
the Moon's rotation
the Sun spinning around the Earth
the Earth is tilted
How long does it take for Earth to revolve (or orbit) around the Sun?
24 hours
1 month
1 year (365 days)
The Earth's seasons affect every living thing on Earth.
True
False
We have seasons on Earth because...
we are so close to the sun.
of Earth's tilt and revolution around the sun.
of gravity.
of electricity.
What is the imaginary line that passes through the middle of the Earth (from North to South) called?
current
compass
lever
axis
When we are on the part of the Earth that is tilted toward the sun, what season is it?
Winter
Summer
When the part of the Earth that we are on is tilted away from the sun, what season is it?
Winter
Summer
The North and South Poles are the _________ places on Earth.
coldest
warmest
Solar panels convert light directly into:
gravity.
magnets.
electricity.
weather.
During which season do we get the warmest weather?
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
What TWO things cause season?
Earth's orbit around the Sun
the Moon's rotation
the Sun spinning around the Earth
the Earth is tilted
How long does it take for Earth to revolve (or orbit) around the Sun?
24 hours
1 month
1 year (365 days)
