Movie Questions

Front 1

Bats have been flying for about ___ years, which is around 200 million years more recent than when insects took to the air

Back 1

60 million

Front 2

The ____ of fossilized feathers suggests the feathers were used for flight

Back 2

symmetry

Front 3

Most modern birds still have reptile-like scales, especially on their ____.

Back 3

legs

Front 4

As kerotinous scales evolved into feathers, these early feathers may have been used mostly for

Back 4

insulation

Front 5

The hoatzins of South America have _____ on their wings, and the manner in which hoatzins use these structures may resemble how archaeopteryx would have used them.

Back 5

hooks/claws

Front 6

The largest flying bird that has ever existed was probably a giant _____ that had a wingspan over 20 feet wide.

Back 6

vulture

Front 7

As modern bird families became established, the _______ and the birds competed for 'dominance.'

Back 7

mammals

Front 8

the filaments of ostrich feathers lack ____, so the feathers can not be zipped to form a contiguous blade.

Back 8

hooks

Front 9

In birds, flight is valuable for escaping from predators and has a low energetic cost

Back 9

false

Front 10

many bird species found in ______ arrived long ago from australia and evolved into what we see today

Back 10

new zealand

Front 11

The Kiwi uses its keen sense of smell to find food in the leaf litter.

Back 11

True

Front 12

After humans in new zealand caused the extinction of 12 species of moas, an immense ______ that hunted the Moas also went extinct.

Back 12

eagle

Front 13

A takahe chick stays with its parent for up to ____

Back 13

one year

Front 14

The male kakapo creates a shallow bowl on a mountain top from where he ________

Back 14

would mate

Front 15

When Life of Birds was made, there were about _____ black stilts in the wild.

Back 15

200

Front 16

According to moulton there are ___ levels of factors that could influence which species are successful when introduced

Back 16

3

Front 17

Oahu and Tahiti have roughly the same number of successfully introduced passerine birds

Back 17

False

Front 18

_______ was the british scientist who argued that islands were easier to invade than mainlands

Back 18

charles elton

Front 19

The old GFC released scores of ____ south of lake okeechobee for recreational hunting

Back 19

white winged doves

Front 20

____ is a species related to mockingbirds that lives in dense woods in the eastern US.

Back 20

Gray catbird (brown thrasher)

Front 21

When artificial prairies in the upper peninsula of michigan were replaced with shrublands shaptailed grouse invaded

Back 21

True

Front 22

Lawrence's warblers are actually rare hybrids

Back 22

True

Front 23

Kirtland's warblers nest on the ground

Back 23

True

Front 24

When the USFWS began trapping cowbirds in michigan, __% of kirtland's warbler nests were parasitized.

Back 24

70%

Front 25

Zebra Mussels have helped form a "dead zone" in ______

Back 25

Lake Eerie

Front 26

Agriculturally induced dead zones are mostly due to the runoff of fertilizer.

Back 26

True

Front 27

In england immuno-contraception was tried as a control for introduced ____

Back 27

gray squirrels

Front 28

The old GFC brought cougars to Florida to control wild hogs.

Back 28

False

Front 29

Side-necked Turtles live only in ____

Back 29

Southern hemisphere

Front 30

ratite birds are found only in the old world

Back 30

False

Front 31

Archaeopteryx is known from fossils found in _____

Back 31

Germany

Front 32

_____ have just two toes per foot

Back 32

Ostriches

Front 33

Brian McNab a zoology Professor at UF argued that flightlessness in carinate birds likely evolved ______

Back 33

to reduce energy expenditures

Front 34

In Darwin's frog of chile the young develop in

Back 34

the vocal sac of their father

Front 35

No salamander species uses external fertilization

Back 35

True

Front 36

The non-aquatic animal group with the widest range of techniques and tools for obtaining food from world's waterbodies is the ____

Back 36

birds

Front 37

The country of ______ is home to the wrybill, the only bird in the world with a beak bent to one side

Back 37

New Zealand

Front 38

The American dipper's dense, oily ____ traps air which keeps the birds warm, but also buoyant, underwater.

Back 38

(outer feathers)

Front 39

The Darter ___ to resolve the problem of having water-absorbent feathers

Back 39

dries itself

Front 40

Africa's black heron uses it's wings to create _____, which helps the bird see fish, and may even attract fish.

Back 40

shade

Front 41

Thelower beak of the _____ is longer than the upper beak.

Back 41

skimmer

Front 42

Ducks, such as the mallard, keep their plumage water-resistant by anointing it with oil from a ___ on their rump.

Back 42

gland

Front 43

All ducks have webbed feet.

Back 43

True

Front 44

Waders like godwits, dowitchers, and sanderlings might forage in the same area, but competition between them is reduced because their ___ are of different shapes and sizes.

Back 44

beaks

Front 45

Boobies pursue their prey by _____.

Back 45

bombardment

Front 46

The short wings of auks represent a trade-off between being able to ___ well and flying rather weakly.

Back 46

swim

Front 47

compared to large penguins, little equatorial penguins may be more similar to the ancestral penguin because the ancestral penguin probably ________

Back 47

had flipper and couldn't fly.

Front 48

Providence petrals belong to a group of birds with a _____ which channels air toward a sensory organ and allows the petrels to find food that may be far away

Back 48

tube

Front 49

Due to their enormous wingspans, albatrosses do not land on water because they would not be able to take flight

Back 49

false

Front 50

over ____ species of birds inhabit the small, remote galapagos islands, perhaps because of the abundance of food in the surrounding area

Back 50

150

Front 51

A female bird lays her eggs because it would be very difficult, if not impossible, for her to ____ with one or more eggs inside her.

Back 51

Fly

Front 52

Some woodpeckers nest inside the nests of ____ which, in turn, provide protection for the woodpecker

Back 52

ants

Front 53

The majority of birds build a nest

Back 53

True

Front 54

Birds that build nests on tree branches might conceal the outside of the nest with _____ materials such as lichen or bark, depending on what matches the tree.

Back 54

Coarser

Front 55

The thatch roof of large, communal bird nests, such as those of the sociable weaver finches, acts as ____

Back 55

insulation.

Front 56

A bird egg develops its hard shell in the part of the oviduct where there are glands that produce _____ and pigment.

Back 56

Lime

Front 57

A female Kiwi produces one egg that is _____ a quarter of her total body weight.

Back 57

A quarter

Front 58

The blue Tit is an example of a bird that lays many eggs because each has a low chance of _____.

Back 58

Survival

Front 59

To protect their eggs from predators, birds may build their nest near the nest of ____

Back 59

wasps

Front 60

the major problem facing most nesting birds is keeping their eggs ____

Back 60

warm