Terminology
Wildlife Populations
Extinction
Endangered
History
100
Where an animal lives.
What is habitat?
100
Hunters, starvation and disease serve as this for deer populations.
What is limiting factors?
100
When a species of animals has a limited number of breeding pairs in the wild it is this.
What is rare?
100
Bighorn sheep are threatened by humans and this.
What is disease?
100
Many people killed some animals simply because of this perception.
What is they appeared hostile?
200
This is an animal that is likely to become endangered in the near future.
What is threatened?
200
The absence of this factor will cause populations to increase beyond an areas capacity.
What is a natural predator?
200
A species likely to become extinct in the foreseeable future is this.
What is threatened?
200
Polar Bears are threatened by shrinking habitat and this.
What is hunting?
200
This early American group trapped animals faster than they were able to multiply and replenish their populations.
What is fur traders?
300
The shortage of one element of the habitat that restricts population growth.
What is a limiting factor?
300
Every species of plant and animal requires an area that provides shelter, food, water and this.
What is safety?
300
Congress enacted the Endangered Species Preservation Act this year.
What is 1966?
300
The Key Deer is found here.
What is the Florida Keys?
300
This number of different vertebrate species are believed to live in the United States.
What is 2300?
400
Populations that are very small.
What is rare?
400
This is the reason that no single species can reproduce without limit.
What is carrying capacity?
400
When an animal is at risk of becoming extinct in all or major parts of its habitat it is this.
What is endangered?
400
This was the year of the last sighting of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.
What is 2006?
400
These animals were unjustly accused for killing livestock when they actually ate insects, frogs & a variety of rodents.
What is the hawk?
500
No longer exists.
What is extinct?
500
To survive, any species should be expected to do this in its numbers.
What is increase in population?
500
Our new scientific knowledge has done this to the endangered species list.
What is increased its length?
500
This is the date that the Bald Eagle was officially removed from the endangered species list.
What is August 9, 2007?
500
Humans tend to abuse wildlife populations because of this belief.
What is that animals are a renewable resource?
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