Exam 2 Flashcards
Modern firearms ammunition includes both center fire and rime fire cartridges.
true
Rifle and shotgun actions serve to:
all of the above
The number of lead balls of bore diameter making 1 pound is called shotgun
gauge
Ammunition components can be analyzed for:
firing pin marks, breech face marks
Hunting rifle caliber reflects the approximate basal diameter of the projectile.
true
Which of the following is NOT a bird feather component:
Coracoid (bone)
Modern birds have light, delicate bones laced with air cavities, a feature important in forensic identification. These are termed osseous bones.
false: cancelloos/spongy.
Birds have complex feather systems. Bird feathers include which of the following types:
contour, filoplume, aftershaft (all of the above).
Feathers preceded flight, and most likely arose for display purposes. Historically, this property resulted in mass harvesting of birds by humans.
true
Secondary feathers produce lift.
true
Birds have many unique anatomic characteristics. Unlike mammals, a large portion of the air inspired by birds bypasses the lungs and flows directly into a system of:
air sacs
Contour feathers tend to lie on top of each other like the shingles on a roof.
true
Lift for flight is primarily produced by negative airstream pressure flowing beneath the lower convex surface of a bird’s wing.
false
30% of all airstrikes involve
gulls
Forensic analyses have revealed high levels of ____ in blood samples obtained from CA Condors.
lead
In the USA, whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, walrus, manatees, sea otters, and polar bears are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
true
Largely profit motivated crimes include:
poaching, ivory trading, bushmeat hunting (all of the above)
Mammoth ivory
NOT a type of schrimshaw
A new and growing menace to mammals that is believed to be the second largest threat to many species is:
exotic pet smuggling
In OK, it is legal to sell a deer antler if it is entirely removed from the skull plate.
false
Endangered Species Act
may apply to habitat
Operation game thief offers cash rewards for info leading to the arrest and conviction of violators of OK’s fish and game laws.
true
Lines of Schreger
are used by forensic mammologists as a means of identifying ivory.
Possession of baleen is a potential violatin of the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
true
Pathology is literally the study of
suffering
Manner of death is the disease, injury, or abnormality alone or in combination is responsible for initiating the sequence of events that ends in death.
false
The Magnuson Stevens Act prohibits intentionally mislabeling the packaging containers of seafood sold in interstate commerce within the USA.
true
Sharks are protected under the MMPA.
false
Within the USA, the illegal harvesting of domestic salmon and trout species is most frequently investigated/prosecuted as a violation of the _____
Endangered Species Act
Sources of pollution, constitution potential violations of marine wildlife protection laws, including _____ incidents.
municipal discharge, ocean dumping, agricultural run off, industrial waste (all of the above).
Manatees and grey whales are uniquely exposed to environmental toxins and marine oil spills by ______.
food source contamination
Entanglement in marine debris is NOT a serious cause of mortality for _____.
polar bears
Tree growth actually begins in the crown and moves downward due to the growth regulator
auxin
