Trivia
Largest Rainforest in the world.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
Goals of Wildlife Management.
Abiotic vs. Biotic.
4 Basic Needs
What is Food, Water, Shelter/Cover, Space?
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Largest Hot Desert on Earth.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Wildlife Management focuses on 3 main things.
What is populations, habitats, human impacts?
Ecosystem definition.
What is a system made of organisms and the nonliving environment they interact with in a specific area?
A habitat is.
What is a place where an organism lives ands finds the resources it needs to survive and reproduce?
True or False: Careers that focus on Wildlife Management spend their time indoors and outdoors.
What is true?
Animal that can change its skin color to blend in with its surroundings.
What is a Chameleon?
Wildlife management combines.
Examples of Biotic factors (3).
What is plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, decomposers, parasites, pradators, competitors?
Protected areas are important.
What is reduce habitat loss and can protect critical breeding areas, but many species move beyond boundaries.
Natural Selection definition.
What is a process where individuals with heritable traits that improve survival or reproduction in a given environment tend to leave more offspring, causing those traits to become more common over generations?
Definition of a endangered animal.
What is the animal is at serious risk of becoming extinct?
Adaptive Management Plan.
What is Plan --> Act --> Monitor --> Adjust
Example of Abiotic factors (4).
What is sunlight, temperature, water availability, soil type, pH, salinity, oxygen levels, nutrient availability, wind?
Wetland Restoration (case study 1) was degraded.
What is wetlands drained for agriculture or development, leading to habitat loss and poorer water quality?
Populations don't stay perfect at carrying capacity (why).
What is resource levels, random events, predator-prey cycles?
Organization that helps protect wildlife around the world
What is World Wildlife Fund?
What happened in the U.S. Pre 1900s with wildlife management.
What is major declines due to market hunting, habitat loss, and weak laws?
Native Species vs. Invasive Species.
What is native occurs naturally in an ecosystem and evolved in the region overtime where invasive is non-native species, spread rapidly and cause ecological, economic, or human-health harm
Forest Management (case study 2) challenge.
What is forests can become too uniform in age/structure due to past logging practices or fire suppression?
Overharvesting definition.
What is the excessive harvesting of a renewable natural resource—such as fish, wildlife, or plants—at a rate faster than it can naturally replenish itself?