CPRT21 FINALS COVERAGE Flashcards
Mollusks are animals that belong to Phylum _______.
Mollusca
Mollusks are animals that have very soft bodies and hard exoskeleton.
[True or False]
True
Phylum Chordata is the second largest Phylum of invertebrate animals after the arthropods. [True or False]
False.
The second largest Phylum of invertebrate animals after the arthropods is the Phylum Mollusca.
This mollusk is a major pest of rice.
Golden Apple Snail
The scientific name of the Golden Apple Snail
Pomacea canaliculata Lamarck
[Odd one out]
- Golden Miracle Snail
- Channeled Apple Snail
- Miami Golden
- Golden Pomacea
Golden Pomacea
[True or False]
The golden apple snail is a voracious specialist feeder on semi-aquatic or aquatic plants.
False
The golden apple snail is a voracious generalist feeder on semi-aquatic or aquatic plants.
[Odd One Out]
- Bivalvia
- Aplacophora
- Scaphopoda
- Nautiloidea
Nautiloidea
Gastropods are source of food, jewelry, and some are pests like some species of saltwater snails.
[T/F]
False.
Gastropods are source of food, jewelry, and some are pests like some species of freshwater snails.
Class Gastropoda consist about ___% of the Phylum Mollusca.
a) 9%
b) 8%
c) 10%
d) 7%
8%
Apple snails are mollusks that belong to the ___________ family.
Ampullariidae
Snails that belong the Ampullariidae family are usually saltwater snails, but the golden apple snail is an exemption.
[T/F]
False.
Golden apple snails are mollusks that belong to the Ampullariidae family, and are usually freshwater snails.
The local name of Pomacea canaliculata Lamarck.
Golden Kuhol / Kuhol
It is the term used for the rough tongue that the golden apple snail uses to scrape plant surfaces.
Radula
The golden apple snail prefers to feed on young plant parts because they are soft and would be easily be scraped by their rough tongue.
[T/F]
True
Aside from feeding on aquatic and semi-aquatic plants, the golden apple snail also feed on decomposing organic matter.
[T/F]
True
[Odd one out]
a) Eleocharis dulces
b) Cyperus corymbosus
c) Pistia stratiotes
d) Sechium edule
d) Sechium edule
Common factor: Plants that the golden apple snail will feed on. Sechium edule is chayote.
[Odd One Out]
a) Laos
b) South America
c) Cambodia
d) Malaysia
b) South America
The golden apple snail is indigenous. Instead, it came from South America.
[T/F]
True
Which of the following is not a characteristic damage of the golden apple snail?
a) Missing hills
b) Cut stems
c) White substance on leaves
d) Floating leaves
c) White substance on leaves.
True of False
The golden apple snail was endorsed officially by the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic resources in the Philippines as a rural livelihood project.
False
The golden apple snail was endorsed by the Department of Agriculture.
True or False
The snail was cultured into cement tanks, managed ponds, and backyard soil pits.
True
True or False
The golden apple snails escaped to the irrigation systems and waterways of different regions due to negligence.
True
Out of 3 million hectares of rice fields, how many hectares were infested by hte kuhol?
1.2 to 1.6 hectares
True or False
The size of the golden apple snail is determiend the availability of food.
True
True or False
The golden apple snail is hermaphroditic and monoecious.
False
The golden apple snail is gonochoristic and dioecious.
Analogy
Female: Concave
Male: ____________.
Convex.
The shell of the female kuhol has a concave operculum while the male kuhol has a convex operculum.
True or False
The male kuhol has a shell with an extended lip and the tip of the shell is darker in color than the females’.
False
The male kuhol has an extended shell lip and has a light color in its apex.
The female kuhol has a straight shell opening and the apex is dark in color.
Female shell: curves inward
Male shell: _____________.
Male shell: curves outward
The number of days during the incubation period of the life cycle of the golden apple snail.
7-14 days
Number of days between the hatchling stage and the juvenile stage.
15-25 days
Number of days between the juvenila stage and the adult stage.
Golden Apple Snail
45-59 days
True or False
The golden apple snail is very prolific.
True
The order of bats
Order Chiroptera
The order of deer and wild pigs
Order Artiodactyla
Order of rabbits
Order Lagomorpha
Order of monkeys, lemurs, and apes
Order Primates
Animals that belong to this order are known to as ‘gnawing mammals’
Order Rodentia
What are the animals that belong to order Rodentia?
Rats / Rodents
What are the animals that belong to order Artiodactyla?
Deer and wild pigs
What are the animals that belong to Order Lagomorpha?
Rabbits
What are the animals that belong to order Chiroptera?
Bats
The body covering of birds
Feathers
The term used for the youngs of birds
Nestlings
Nestlings are initially helpless, naked, and must be fed by the maternal parents.
True or False?
True
What are the common names of ** Lonchura malacca **?
- Black-headed munia
- Chestnut munia
- Weaver bird
- Maya
It is considered to be the most destructive bird pest in the Philippines.
Maya or Lonchura malacca
Only the male Maya sings. True or False?
True
What are the 3 species of agricultural pests that belong to Class Aves?
Lonchura malacca
Passer montanus
Padda oryzivora
The spindle-shaped body of birds minimized the resistance to wind during flight. True or False?
True
The nests of the Lonchura malacca are found in tall grasses or bushes, and generally contains 4-7 white eggs.
True or False?
True
The scientific name of the Eurasian tree sparrow
Passer montanus
This animal is a storage pest in warehouses and replaces the Lonchura as a major pest in rice fields.
Passer montanus
It is usually mistakenly identified as the maya.
Passer montanus
It entire head, back of neck, chin, throat, and breast are black in color, while the rest of the upper parts are chestnut or dark brown.
Lonchura malacca
Class Aves animal that feeds on weed seeds and rice grains.
Lonchura malacca
Class Aves animal that feeds on seeds and worms.
Passer montanus
This bird makes nest in natural cavities, holes in buildings, and unused nests.
Passer montanus
Animal with rich chestnut crown and nape with black patch n each white cheek.
Passer montanus
The wings of birds are actually forelimbs that are modified to be capable of flight.
[True or False?]
True
Number of eggs of the Passer montanus
5-6 eggs
Scientific name of the Java Sparrow
Padda oryzivora
It is an exotic bird with gray and black feathers.
Padda oryzivora
It has grey upper parts and breast. It has a pink belly. Its head is black but it is white-cheeked. The ring of its eyes are red. It has pink feet and a thick red beak.
What species of bird is this?
Padda oryzivora
It is now a former pest of rice fields.
Padda oryzivora
It mainly feeds on grains and other seeds.
Padda oryzivora
The nests of the Padda oryzivora are located at the top of trees and buildings.
[True or False?]
True
The Java Sparrow are gregarious.
[True or False?]
True
The nestlings of this species that brown upper parts, with light brown underparts. It has a plain head with black beak and a pink base.
Padda oryzivora
What is the characteristic call of the Java sparrow?
chipchipchipchip
Mammals have mammary glands in females that are used to produce milk to feed the young.
[True or False?]
True
They are characterized by a pair of continuously growing razor-sharp incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws,
Rats
The incisors of rats are only found at the upper jaw.
[True or False?]
False. It is found on both upper and lower jaws.
The incisors of rats are separated by the diastema.
[True or False?]
True
The diastema refers to the gap that separates the molars or teeth.
The habit of rats that functions to wear the teeth down to prevent elongation and results into sharpened teeth.
Gnawing or Nibbling
It is the technical term for the body covering of rats.
Pelage
The body part of rats that are sensitive to motion.
Sensory vibrissae
The tail of rats are shorter or longer than the body.
[True or False?]
True
The baby rat is pinkish and naked, has no vibrissae, eyes and ears closed, under developed limbs, and sucks milk from maternal parent.
[True or False?]
True
Lifespan of rats
6 months to more than a year.
Gestation period of rats
21 days
Number of times the mother rat gives birth in a year.
3-4 times
The average number of young per litter or rats.
6-8 youngs
The number of rats that the female rat can give birth to in just one season.
35
Rats are sexually active for ___ months until their death
9
It is the season when the breeding of rats become rapid.
Wet Season
Rats are nocturnal.
[True or False?]
True
Rats generally have poor eyesight but they have heightened sense of smell, taste, touch, and hearing.
[True or False?]
True
These are the long hairs of rats that protect the soft undercoat and have a water-proof function.
Guard hairs
Rats can survive any obstacles because they are good climbers, swimmers, and diggers.
[True or False?]
True
Rats actually has a low food requirement, which is only 10% of their body weight.
[True or False?]
True
Rats are omnivorous but they are basically cereal-eaters.
[True or False?]
True
Rats engage in cannibalism when food is scarce.
[True or False?]
True
It is the fear of new or unfamiliar situations or conditions.
This is exhibited by rats, which protects them from impending danger.
Neophobia
Neophobia in rats cause trap-shyness.
[True or False?]
True
Rats are social animals and have high reproductive rates.
[True or False?]
True
Scientific name of common rice field rat.
Rattus rattus complex
Mammary gland formula of Rattus rattus complex.
2+3=10
The scientific name of Asian rice field rice.
Rattus argentiventer
Mammary gland formula of Asian rice field rat.
3+3=12
Scientific name of Polynesian rat or bush rat.
Rattus exulans
Mammary gland formula of Rattus exulans
2+2=8
Scientific name of Norway rat.
Rattus norvegicus
Mammary gland formula of Norway rat.
3+3=12
Scientific name of the Philippine house mouse.
Mus musculus castaneus
Scientific name of the Philippine naked back fruit bat.
Dobsonia chapmani
Scientific name of Fruit-eating monkey in the Philippines.
Macaca fascicularis philippensis
Rat damage on rice
- Missing seedlings
- Right angle cut on tillers
- Bending / lodging of tillers
Bird control strategies in rice
- Bird boys
- Exclusion netting
- Tin cans
- Bird tape
- Decoy birds
- Scarecrow
- Chemical repellents
- Eco-engineering
Physical control strategies in rice for rats
- Flooding and digging burrows
- Blanketing
- Flamethrower
- Netting to trap rats
- Live trap
- Use of dogs to locate active burrows
- Electric current
Cultural control for rats.
- Sanitation
- Synchronous planting
- Paddy dikes not more than 15cm wide and 20cm high
- Timing control when rat population is very low
- Community trap barrier system
Biological control for rats
- Use of predators like owl, wild cats, snakes, birds
- “Bounty system” to encourage rat control
The name of the chemical used for chemical control of rats.
Rodenticides
Rodent pests found in Mindoro and Mindanao Islands
Rattus argentiventer
Rodent that is a major pest in Palawan
Rattus exulans
Rodent that is pest in Iloilo.
Rattus norwegicus
This is the first step in pest management
Diagnosis