TWS
Native Wildlife
Ecology
Natural History
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
200
Salamander biodiversity hotspot
The Appalachian mountain region
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)
300
The Wildlife Society journals/publications
The Journal of Wildlife Management, The Wildlife Society Bulletin, Wildlife Monographs, The Wildlife Professional
300
The elusive, acrobatic cousin to the striped skunk
Eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius)
300
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
300
The ecoregion that Clarksville, TN is situated in
Technically, western highland rim (western pennyroyal karst)
400
Year of The Wildlife Society's founding
Febuary 1936
400
One (of multiple) orogeny event that lead to the formation of the Appalachian mountains
Grenville orogeny, Taconic orogeny, Acadian orogeny, Alleghenian orogeny
500
Original name of The Wildlife Society
Society of Wildlife Specialists
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