Wildlife Wordsmith
Colorado Critters
Laws of the Wild
Ram Country
Wildlife Oddities
100
The process by which a population becomes better suited to its environment over generations and produce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
100
This high-elevation ungulate was successfully reintroduced/translocated to Colorado in the 1970s after extirpation. This effort involved over 100 transplants of more than 2,500 individuals to various locations across the state.
What is the (Rocky Mountain) Bighorn Sheep?
100
A hunter shoots ducks out of season and then drives them from the hunting location in Casper, Wyoming to Fort Collins, Colorado to sell them at some crunchy organic farmers market. Federal charges are filed.
What is the Lacey Act?
100
Over 1000 species were recorded at this CSU property with 20 of these species being species of concern.
What is Mountain Campus?
100
This group of mammals are the only ones capable of true powered flight.
What are bats?
200
This describes the variety of life in all its forms, levels, and combinations
What is biodiversity?
200
Black-footed ferrets, one of North America's most endangered mammals, rely almost exclusively on this prey species.
What are prairie dogs?
200
A wind farm project is halted because the turbines used to generate electricity are killing large numbers of migratory songbirds protected by this 1918 treaty.
What is the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA)?
200
One FWCB professor leads a lab that examines large mammal conservation including human impacts, conflict, and ecology of large carnivores and ungulates. His research is international in scope and includes work in Africa.
Who is George Wittemyer?
200
This North American bird is famous for its drumming sound, created by beating its wings together in flight.
What is the ruffed grouse?
300
This term describes the role and position a species has in its environment
What is a niche?
300
This small mammal is considered a climate change indicator species in Colorado because it cannot tolerate prolonged exposure to heat.
What is the American pika?
300
A construction company wants to build a highway through a wetland. Before work begins, they must complete an Environmental Impact Statement under this law.
What is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)?
300
Of all of the observation on Inaturalist, this is the most observed species on CSU's main campus?
What is the Eastern Fox Squirrel?
300
This mammal family can delay the implantation of it's fertilized egg, allowing it to time births with prey availability.
Common or scientific name is fine
What are Weasels/Mustelidae?
400
This type of population growth occurs when resources are unlimited, creating a J-shaped curve
What is exponential growth?
400
Split by the continental divide, this aquatic species split into the 2 distinct sub-species. Both of which is very rare.
What are cutthroat trout?
400
A shipment of exotic reptiles is seized at Denver International Airport because it violates an international treaty restricting trade of endangered species.
List the acronym and what it stands for.
Hint: The more accurate acronym would be CITESWFF
What is CITES?
Convention on International Trade in in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
400
This professor and chair holds the James C. Kennedy Endowed Wetland & Waterfowl Conservation Chair and applies demographic methods in conservation, management, ecology, and evolution.
Who is David Koons?
400
This carnivore has the strongest bite force relative to body size of any mammal.
What is the Tasmanian devil?
500
In population ecology, this is the mathematical term for the finite rate of increase, often denoted by λ, and defined as λ=er
What is the population growth multiplier?
(finite rate of increase)
500
The Gunnison sage-grouse, a species found only in Colorado and Utah, was listed as threatened under the ESA in 2014 due to loss of this critical habitat type.
What is sagebrush habitat?
500
This president signed into law NEPA, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Pesticide Control Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, Endangered Species Conservation Act, Noise Control Act, Ocean Dumping Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.
They are the environmental president.
Who is Richard Nixon?
500
The FWCB faculty directory includes an ornithologist whose work spans bird migration across the Western Hemisphere, aeroecology, spatial ecology, macroecology, and the effects of light pollution. Name this faculty member.
Who is Kyle Horton?
500
Found throughout Central America, this amphibian has transparent skin on its underside, allowing its internal organs to be visible.
What is the glass frog?