Habitats Review

Habitats Review

Habitat

the place in which a plant or animal lives and receives what it needs to survive.

Multiple Choice

1. Why are there so many different habitats?

• A. Different living things build different habitats to meet their needs.

• B. Each place has its own elevation, climate, and land.

• C. The elevation, climate, and land is the same everywhere on Earth.

• D. Living things move from one habitat to another.

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2. Which of these is a habitat?

• A. a grassy field with prairie dogs, grasshoppers, and wheat plants

• B. a baseball game with a pitcher, batter, and catcher

• C. a city street with two cars stopped at a red light

• C. an icy canyon with no living things in it

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3. What is latitude?

• A. a way of feeling about something

• B. the freedom to do what you want

• C. a measure of how far a place is from the equator

• D. a measure of how hot or cold a place is

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4. Which of these is a building block of habitats?

• A. animals

• B. elevation

• C. plants

• D. all of the above

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5. Why don't wild polar bears normally live in Hawaii?

• A. Polar bears need a habitat with more access to water.

• B. Polar bears need a habitat with a colder climate.

• C. Polar bears need a habitat with fewer plants.

• D. Polar bears need a habitat with more fish.

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6. Which statement is true?

• A. All living things live in the same habitat.

• B. No two living things share the same habitat.

• C. Living things survive best in habitats in which all their needs are met.

• D. Living things survive best in habitats in which one of their needs is met.

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7. Which of these is not an example of an adaptation?

• A. a cat having sharp claws to defend itself and to climb

• B. birds migrating to a cooler place in the summer

• C. an anteater having a long tongue to reach ants deep in a hole

• D. ice melting on a frozen river in the spring

Multiple Choice

8. When people cut down trees, the soil can be washed away by rain. This is an example of _______________.

• A. pollution

• B. erosion

• C. a habitat

• D. an environment

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9. How is an African savanna different from the tundra in northern Canada?

• A. They have different latitudes and climates.

• B. A savanna always has a higher elevation than a tundra does.

• C. One has plants, and the other has animals.

• D. A savanna can change, but the tundra always stays the same.

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10. How do people change habitats?

• A. They change the habitat's latitude.

• B. They bring storms to the habitat.

• C. They build cities in place of the habitats.

• D. all of the above

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11. How would you describe the climate in Violin Valley?

• A. cold and humid

• B. warm and dry

• C. cold and dry

• D. warm and humid

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12. What types of plants and animals probably live in Cello Canyon?

• A. cactuses, coyotes, and rattlesnakes

• B. redwood trees, beavers, and elk

• C. frogs, monkeys, and vines

• D. penguins, seals, and small flowers

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13. Which elevation is most likely missing from the table? (Think about how high mountains would normally be.)

• A. 160 m (525 ft.)

• B. 410 m (1,345 ft.)

• C. 2,350 m (7,710 ft.)

• D. 705 m (2,313 ft.)