Deck F

Question 1

What type of competition is characterised by one species directly attacking another?

Answer 1

Interference competition

Question 2

What is the world’s smallest tortoise?

Answer 2

Speckled padloer

Question 3

Which of these Australian taxa did not have a species named after collector, John Gilbert?

Answer 3

A monotreme

Question 4

A disturbance or disruption, including management actions, which can force an ecosystem into another state is known as a

Answer 4

Perturbation

Question 5

The point where even small changes in environmental conditions will lead to large changes in system state variables is the

Answer 5

Threshold

Question 6

The existence of different stable states under the same variables or parameters is known a

Answer 6

Hysteresis

Question 7

Who coined the term ‘permaculture’ in 1978?

Answer 7

W. Mollison & D. Holmgren

Question 8

Several threatening processes combining to hasten the decline of a population toward extinction is know as

Answer 8

An extinction vortex

Question 9

Which of these is not a synonym for reinforcement in the latest IUCN Reintroduction Specialist Group Guidelines?

Answer 9

Flooding

Question 10

What is a titi?

Answer 10

Callicebus monkey

Question 11

What is the difference between occupancy estimates and naïve occupancy?

Answer 11

Naïve occupancy ignores imperfect detectability

Question 12

The number of observations of birds per minute of survey is an example of a

Answer 12

Index

Question 13

The last specimen of which electric-blue backed Coua delalandei was collected in 1834 from the wet forests of north-eastern Madagascar?

Answer 13

Delalande’s coucal

Question 14

Lichens are an example of

Answer 14

Conjunctive symbiosis

Question 15

The gradual replacement of one plant community by another is

Answer 15

Succession

Question 16

What do Chester Zoo claim is the biggest threat to orangutans?

Answer 16

Palm olive production

Question 17

Sites that soak up carbon are known as

Answer 17

Carbon sinks

Question 18

A tree that extends beyond the canopy of a rainforest is an

Answer 18

Emergent

Question 19

What is the annual point at which the Earth is closest to the Sun?

Answer 19

Perihelion

Question 20

A phenomenon or process that produces results that can not be predicted with certainty is

Answer 20

Random

Question 21

The anchor or ‘foot’ that is used by species (often algae) to stick to a surface is a

Answer 21

Holdfast

Question 22

Africa supports what percentage of the world’s bird populations?

Answer 22

24% (2313 species from 111 families)

Question 23

The Nagoya Protocol ensures the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from what?

Answer 23

Genetic resources

Question 24

A group of organisms that that fill similar ecological roles, such as Africa’s large predators, is a

Answer 24

Guild

Question 25

The evolution of many new species from relative few ancestor species is known as what?

Answer 25

Adaptive radiation

Question 26

The total number of species on Earth ranges from what?

Answer 26

5-30 million

Question 27

Plants that are pollinated by the wind are

Answer 27

Anemophilous

Question 28

A service humans obtain from the environment is an

Answer 28

Ecosystem service

Question 29

The last specimen of which electric-blue backed Coua delalandei was collected in 1834 from the wet forests of north-eastern Madagascar?

Answer 29

Dalalande’s coucal

Question 30

The international treaty governing the movements of living modified organisms arising from biotechnology that was adopted on 29th of January 2000 is the

Answer 30

Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Question 31

The evolution of characteristics that allow sharing of resources of using them in ways that avoid compeition is

Answer 31

Resource partitioning

Question 32

The conversion of sunlight and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose is

Answer 32

Photosynthesis

Question 33

The shrinkage of testes in males by more than 90% outside the breeding season and the possession of one ovary, are adaptations to what?

Answer 33

Flight

Question 34

The light emitted by fireflies is an example of

Answer 34

Bioluminescence

Question 35

A group of organisms that includes their most recent common ancestor and all their descendents is a

Answer 35

Clade