Wildlife Management
What is the number of animals that a particular area can safely support called?
What is carrying capacity?
What is the process that uses practices to protect wildlife, ensure populations, and offer solutions to problems?
What is Wildlife Management?
What animal in Iowa can be hunted year round, prey on small animals, and can run up to 40 mph?
What is a coyote?
What is one regulation agency that oversees wildlife populations?
What is the DNR, Fish & Wildlife Service, or EPA?
What is the philosophy called that states if I do not have it, someone else will?
What is Tragedy of the Commons?
What is any one action working alone, or in combination, to decrease the population?
What is a limiting factor?
What animal in Iowa is an herbivore, can be hunted in its season, and males are known for their antlers?
What is a White-tailed Deer?
What wildlife regulatory agency was formed in Iowa in 1986?
What is the DNR?
Who wrote The Sand County Almanac? A popular book depicting wildlife conservation practices.
Who is Aldo Leopold?
What is the ability of a population to increase?
What is reprodcutive potential?
What animal in Iowa is a secondary consumer, lives in swamps/wetlands, eats insects and algae, eaten by snakes and birds, and is named based on its physical coloration?
What is a Green Frog?
What is it called when animals permanently leave a population?
What is emigration?
What are three examples of limiting factors?
Space, food, water, shelter/cover, arrangement
What is is a measure of how crowded or sparse organisms are in an area?
What is population density?
What animal in Iowa is a large stocky rodent, an herbivore, and preyed upon by coyotes and foxes?
What is a woodchuck?
What are the data points that biologists track to account for population change?
What are birth rate, death rate, immigration, and emigration?
What are three ways that humans play a role in wildlife management?
What is hunting, habitat destruction, habitat degradation, providing food, transportation ease (arrangement), Etc.
What is the speed at which different populations respond differently to changes in habitat, weather, etc?
What is population response?
What is an animal in Iowa that is at the top of the food chain, a large feline, lives in forests, and are huntable during a distinct season?
What is a bobcat?
What is negatively affected when populations have a large number of diseased or older animals?
What is reproductive potential?