Conservation
This term describes efforts to protect and manage wildlife and natural habitats, often involving actions like habitat restoration and combating invasive species.
Wildlife Conservation
This term refers to the variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that sustain it.
Biodiversity
What is anything that prevents a population from growing large in size
A limiting factor
What is the most infamous way humans impact the environment negatively?
Pollution
What is it called when an animal population moves from one place to another?
Migration
What is one way to conserve?
reuse items over again
A species on the brink of extinction is referred to as this, a term that is a step more critical than "threatened".
An endangered species
What is a limiting factor that can keep a population from becoming too large
Overpopulation, Lack of Food, Predators, Diseases, etc.
What is an area protected from humans for it's landscape or uniqueness
National Parks
What are the factors classifying migration?
Push and Pull factors
To manage a habitat, wildlife managers must consider what?
Historical trends, current habitat conditions, breeding population levels, long-term projections, and breeding success.
The type of biodiversity that shows the different traits in one population
Genetic Diversity
A lack of food or available mates can serve as this type of factor that restricts population growth.
biotic limiting factor
What is the most famous National Park in America, located in Wyoming, known for it's history and unique scenery?
Yellowstone National Park
What is immigration?
Coming into a population
This act of Congress, passed in 1964, established a system of federally protected areas for the preservation of wilderness and its resources.
The Wilderness Act
This occurs to biodiversity as we move closer to the tropics.
Increase
The availability of light and the presence of certain nutrients like nitrogen or phosphorus are common examples of these limiting factors in marine environments
abiotic limiting factors
Humans classify a population like this, if the population is nearing extinction
An Endangered Species
What is emigration?
Migrating out of a population
Name one beneficial habitat management practice?
Brush pile creation, controlled burning, diking, ditching, food plots and planting, mechanical brush or grass control, nuisance plant or animal control, timber cutting, and water holding.
The teosinte plant providing pest resistant genes to corn is a direct value of this type of biodiversity.
Genetic Diversity
What would be the best example of a limiting factor for a deer in the forest?
a.) The amount of stars in the sky
b.) The amount of squirrels
c.) The overpopulation of their predators
d.) All of the above
c.) The overpopulation of their predators
What man made disaster happened in Louisiana in 2010 that negatively affected the entire Gulf Coast
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
This large mammal undertakes the annual "Great Migration" across the African savanna, a dramatic journey made famous by its massive numbers and dramatic crossings of the Mara River.
Wildebeest