GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY: Quiz
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Circle the correct answer for questions 1-8.
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How many native land mammals are in the Galapagos?
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b)
c)
d)
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3
2
8
5
What is the largest terrestrial mammal in the Galapagos?
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b)
c)
d)
3.
fur seal
dolphin
sea lion
tortoise
Herpetology is the study of what?
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b)
c)
d)
4.
birds
reptiles and amphibians
fish
insects
Ichthyology is the study of what?
a)
b)
c)
d)
5.
fish
plant and animal life of an environment
skin irritation
birds
How many species of finch are there?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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8
15
9
13
What is the branch of biology dealing with plant life?
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b)
c)
d)
Ecology
Botany
Taxonomy
Geology
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b)
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The youngest of the Galapagos islands are toward what direction?
west
north
south
east
a)
b)
c)
d)
What is the most notable feature used in identifying finches?
color
size
beak
feet
True or False?
9.
Sea lions migrate on a normal basis.
10.
El Nino is good for the finch population and bad for the sea lion population.
11.
The Galapagos fur seal is actually another species of sea lion.
12.
Adaptive Radiation is the evolution of a population into an array of species.
13.
The earth is not a layered planet.
14.
Alfred Wagener proposed the theory of continental drift.
15.
The Galapagos Fur Seal is smaller then the Galapagos Sea Lion.
Answer the following questions with one or two sentences.
16.
What is an archipelago?
17.
What was the name of the super continent that existed 200 million years ago?
18.
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
19.
What is magma?
20.
What is conservation? What can you do or not do to help conserve the planet?
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Answer Key to Quiz
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A large group of islands
Pangaea
divergent, convergent, and transform fault
hot molten rock within the earth
The protection and proper management to save natural resources
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