QUIZ

WEEK EIGHT. MORE THAN HALF WAY HOME!



1. What does the definition "shared learned behavior" define?

2. What are things called which stand for something else in an arbitrary?

3. What is the simplest form of food getting known as?

4. How many cultures in the world eat all the material in the area that is edible?

5. About how long ago does current evidence dates the earliest pelagic fishing?

6. What a fish called that are caught but are not the kind sought or used are known as?

7. What is the word used for fishing which occurs whn fishing equipment breaks loose and floats away still catching fish?

8. What kind of fishing is done by dragging a net through the water?

9. What fish that was found in extremely large numbers in the area of the Grand Banks that was driven nearly to extinction until protected by the Canadian government?

10. What invention marks the appearance of agriculture?

ANSWERS TO THE LAST QUIZ

1. What oceanic environment is made from the exoskeletons of living and deceased organisms?
ANSWER: coral reefs

2. What environment contains many tree and shrub like plants whose roots are often exposed and at other times submerged?
ANSWER: mangrove swamps

3. What term is used for area where rivers meet the ocean?
ANSWER: estuary

4. What is the largest made by non human animals?
ANSWER: The Great Barrier Reef

5. What are areas where water covers the soil either all year or at different times of the year – which includes the growing season of plants?
ANSWER: wetlands

6. What kind of process do primary producers have that does NOT involve sunlight?
ANSWER: chemosynthesis

7. What do kelp have that looks something like roots, but do not have the funtion of true roots?
ANSWER: holdfasts

8. What kind of animal lives near hydrothermic vents and lacks a mouth and digestive tract?
ANSWER: tube worms

9. What term is used for animals at the top of the food chain?
ANSWER: apex predator

10. In what kind of animals has there been an interest in producing anti-cancer drugs?
ANSWER: invertebrates