TWS
Native Wildlife
Ecology
Natural History/Geology
Biology/Random
100
What T.W.S. stands for
The Wildlife Society
100
North America's only native marsupial
Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)
100
Root of the word "Ecology"
Oikos - "home, dwelling place"
-logia - "study of"
100
Tennessee's bedrock (broadly)
Sedimentary- limestone, chert, shale
100
The powerhouse of the cell...
Mitochondria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
200
Also known as the snot otter, mud-devil, lasagna lizard, or the Allegheny alligator
Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)
200
Author, naturalist, and ecologist best known for writing A Sand County Almanac (1949)
Aldo Leopold
200
One of multiple periods during which Tennessee was submerged under the ocean
The Ordovician period, the Silurian period, the Devonian period, the Cretaceous period....... a lot of them (up to the Quaternary period)
200
Process by which proteins lose their structure in extreme thermal or pH environments
Denaturing
300
The Wildlife Society journals/publications
The Journal of Wildlife Management, The Wildlife Society Bulletin, Wildlife Monographs, The Wildlife Professional
300
Giant, benthic fish with bony plates/spines considered vulnerable (Threatened in Tennessee!)
Sturgeon (Family Acipenseridae: 3 spp. in TN)
300
Different ways to measure species diversity
Species richness vs evenness
Alpha, beta, gamma diversity
300
The ecoregion that Clarksville, TN is situated in
Technically, western highland rim (western pennyroyal karst)
300
Most speciose group of animals on earth
Beetles (Coleoptera)
400
Year of The Wildlife Society's founding
Febuary 1936
400
The elusive, acrobatic cousin to the striped skunk
Eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius)
400
An ecological term used to describe the phenomenon of strong indirect impacts on a community by removal of one member/species- can be top-down or bottom-up
Trophic cascade
400
One (of multiple) orogeny event that lead to the formation of the Appalachian mountains
Grenville orogeny, Taconic orogeny, Acadian orogeny, Alleghenian orogeny
400
"Transition fossil" between aquatic and terrestrial tetrapods (fish -> mammals)
Tiktaalik
500
Original name of The Wildlife Society
Society of Wildlife Specialists
500
Endangered hymenopterid with a distinctive orange spot on its abdomen
Rusty Patched Bumblebee (Bombus affinis)
500
An ecological model describing the fluctuating/oscillating population dynamics between predator and prey species
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Lotka-Volterra model
500
The Tennessee state fossil
Pterotrigonia thoracica
500
Reflective layer found in the eyes of cats, fish, and other animals for night vision
Tapetum lucidum