Wild Rice Practice Assessment Questions

Question 1

What is the ultimate source of energy for all living things?

Accepted Answer

The sun

Question 2

All students who successfully pass this course will receive __ hours of SSL.

Accepted Answer

4

Question 3

What must NOT be done by people in order to help protect the Chesapeake Bay?

Accepted Answer

Take home all the fish you catch when you go fishing, when you don’t need

Question 4

The sun is essential for life in all ecosystems. What does the sun provide that sustains life for all organisms?

Accepted Answer

Heat and light for all living things

Question 5

Which one of the following is not an environmental problem at the Chesapeake Bay?

Accepted Answer

Increase in tidal wetlands and wild rice vegetation

Question 6

What is the original source of most of the energy in the majority of ecosystems?

Accepted Answer

Sunlight

Question 7

Many scientists have warned that global warming will melt the polar ice caps. What would most likely happen if it melts?

Accepted Answer

Sea levels will rise

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT why the Chesapeake Bay is important to Maryland State?

Accepted Answer

Provides opportunities for agricultural production

Question 9

One of the ways by which nutrient pollution does not affect humans in the Chesapeake Bay area is...

Accepted Answer

By forming dead zones

Question 10

All of the following are major sources of nutrient pollution except...

Accepted Answer

Acid rain and ozone pollution

Question 11

Nutrient pollution causes the following problems to the state of Maryland except...

Accepted Answer

Damages to motor highways

Question 12

Piscataway literally means ‘where the waters blend’

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

How does climate affect a watershed?

Accepted Answer

It determines the amount of water input and output in a watershed.

Question 14

Which of these statements is false about why wetlands are important to people?

Accepted Answer

They don’t protect our shores from wave action.

Question 15

One of the following is not a major benefit of cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay.

Accepted Answer

Encouraging the growth of wild rice as a source of food for migrating birds

Question 16

What is a watershed?

Accepted Answer

All of the land that drains runoff from rain into a large body of water

Question 17

Which one of the following is not a major pollutant of Chesapeake Bay?

Accepted Answer

Wastes from aquatic organisms

Question 18

Which one of the following is the major cause of algal bloom?

Accepted Answer

Eutrophication or nutrient enrichment of water bodies

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