Wild Life (Wild Life Ecology) – Quiz 1 Related Post Wild Life (Wild Life Conservation) – Quiz 1 Wild Life (Wild Life Biology) – Quiz 2 Wild Life (Wild Life Biology) – Quiz 1 Wild Life (Animal Study Methods) – Quiz 1 Wild Life (Animal Diversity & Habitats) – Quiz 1 1. The sheer extent to which humans have dominated the biosphere (terrestrial freshwater and marine) means that we have no choice but to ____________ conservation efforts with other human activities. Override Pull out Control Supersede 2. The term ____________________ refers to the abnormal functioning of organisms (altered physiology) associated with disease. psychophysiology paraphysiology anatomic physiology pathophysiology 3. The term _____________________ is the discipline of detecting describing and classifying new species as well as revising the classification of previously described species. Structure Alpha Taxonomy Beta Taxonomy Nomenclature 4. The tropical rain forest exceeds all the other biomes in the ____________ of its animals as well as plants. quantity quality availability diversity 5. There are many factors that affect choosing an assessment method. Which one of the following is NOT such a factor? Logistics Range of calculations Timing of data collection Available personnel 6. There are several factors to remember when considering carrying capacity in relation to habitat. Which one of the following is one of the factors? Manage for limit when considering carrying capacity. Exceeding carrying capacity will have a compounding effect on the habitat. Carrying capacity changes with the seasons. Winter carrying capacity is usually higher than summer carrying capacity. One species cannot affect the carrying capacity of another species. 7. What is a group of individuals more genetically similar to each other than to other individuals usually with some degree of spatial isolation called? Deme Metapopulation Population Aggregation 8. What is the main structural protein in the extracellular space in the various connective tissues in animals? Elastin Gelatin Biotin Collagen 9. What is the use of quantitative methods to predict the likely future status of a population or collection of populations of conservation concern.called? A cross taxa approach A population viability analysis (PVA) A metapopulational assessment A population projection matrix 10. What type of analysis is used when you want to predict a continuous dependent variable from a number of independent variables? Correlation Frequency Variance Regression 11. When carrying out a wildlife survey the most important thing to think about is ____________________. expenses your safety control geography 12. When the goal is to estimate risk to a single species or population instead of evolved life histories that may expose species to some undesirable state then which of the following traditional approach is adopted? A cross taxa approach A population viability analysis (PVA) A metapopulational assessment A population projection matrix 13. Which environmental resistance factor is biotic? Drought Parasitism Famine Flood 14. Which famous philosopher and scientist is credited with creating the first organism classification system more than 2000 years ago? He classified living things as plant or animal according to their appearance. Plato Aristotle Socrates Pythagoras 15. Which geologist is credited in making the most important of the early attempts to regulate zoological nomenclature? Richard Owen John Westwood Hugh Strickland Charles Darwin 16. Which of the following is a negative consequence of wildlife trade? Local livelihoods of the poor are hugely impacted specifically their income source assets and wellbeing. It provides numerous livelihood opportunities for poor communities. Trade can provide incentives for sustainable use and management of species. It can overharvest the ecosystem. 17. Which one of the following countries has banned hunting for sport? Zimbabwe South Africa Botswana Central America 18. Which one of the following species is extinct in Pakistan? Partridge Flamingoes Mynas White head duck 19. Which one of the following uses a geometric mean of ten suitability indices to evaluate water management operations on plant and animal habitats? Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) Models Wildlife Habitat Relationship (WHR) Matrix Models Habitat evaluation procedures (HEP) Spatially Explicit Models 20. Which one the following is NOT one of the factors that influence the Biotic potential? The average birth rate under ideal conditions the age at which the average individual first reproduces the average frequency with which reproduction occurs The average number of offspring produced each time Offspring per mating Loading … Question 1 of 20
