Management Facts

Question 1

What is wildlife science based on?

Answer 1

The Scientific Principles

Question 2

What does wildlife management require when dealing with complex interactions in the environment?

Answer 2

Creative use of the scientific principles`

Question 3

What are the four basic habitat requirements of all living organisms?

Answer 3

Food, water, space, and cover

Question 4

What is the ideal habitat for brown thrashers?

Answer 4

Stage 4 shrubs

Question 5

T/F Habitat requirements are basically the same for wildlife during the summer and winter.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

What is the term used to provide habitat for as many different wildlife species as possible in an area?

Answer 6

Species Richness

Question 7

When evaluating habitat for featured wildlife species, who must decide which species are to be favored?

Answer 7

Landowners or the general public

Question 8

What is usually the best management practice to provide requirements for selected wildlife critters?

Answer 8

Applying management practices that provide requirements that are in the shortest supply

Question 9

T/F It is impossible to manage habitat for any one species without influencing another species in some manner?

Answer 9

True

Question 10

The progressive growth from pioneer plants to a climax forest is called?

Answer 10

Succession

Question 11

What are the different stages in plant succession in order?

Answer 11

1) Bare Ground
2) Annual forbs and grasses
3) Perennial forbs and grasses
4) Shrubs
5) Young woodlands
6) Mature woodlands

Question 12

How long could a single step in succession take place?

Answer 12

Weeks, months, years, or even centuries

Question 13

Name three natural factors than can cause succession.

Answer 13

Insect or disease outbreaks, tornadoes, hurricanes, avalanches, ice damage, flooding, fires

Question 14

What type of disturbance is more frequently credited in alter succession?

Answer 14

Humans

Question 15

Mixing plots of different successional stages within an area is called what?

Answer 15

Interspersion

Question 16

The boundary where two or more different types of vegetation or successional stages meet is called?

Answer 16

Edge

Question 17

What type of edge is it called when a grass pasture meets an oak-hickory forest?

Answer 17

High contrast edge

Question 18

Is balance of edge with blocks of vegetation is one successional stage desirable or undesirable?

Answer 18

Desirable

Question 19

What is an area of continuous habitat that permits animals to travel securely from one habitat to another?

Answer 19

Corridor

Question 20

What is another name for a corridor?

Answer 20

Travel lane

Question 21

What is the concept used to define the number of different kinds of wildlife found in an area?

Answer 21

Species richness

Question 22

What is the term that can limit how many animals can live in a habitat?

Answer 22

Carrying capacity

Question 23

When is carrying capacity usually the greatest?

Answer 23

From late spring through fall

Question 24

How can a long-term increase in wildlife population be accomplished?

Answer 24

By increasing the habitat’s carrying capacity

Question 25

Name three water quality factors that can be managed in ponds.

Answer 25

Dissolved oxygen, alkalinity, harness, pH

Question 26

What is the dissolved oxygen threshold for survival of fish for fish ponds?

Answer 26

Below 2 parts per million (ppm)

Question 27

What should be done to improve a pond that has a low pH, hardness, and alkalinity?

Answer 27

Lime it

Question 28

How many ppms of hardness and alkalinity should a pond possess to remain healthy?

Answer 28

20 ppm

Question 29

Name two management practices to help manage phytoplankton in a fish pond.

Answer 29

Liming and fertilizing

Question 30

What is the state bird in Alabama?

Answer 30

Northern Flicker (Yellow hammer)

Question 31

What is the major identification characteristic of a red fox?

Answer 31

Black behind the ears

Question 32

Which animal has a head that looks like they wear a baseball cap turned backwards?

Answer 32

Wood duck

Question 33

What is the major identifying characteristic a mink?

Answer 33

White under the chin

Question 34

Which animal has two black sideburns (tears) on a white face?

Answer 34

American kestrel

Question 35

which animal usually always seems to have a fish in its talons?

Answer 35

Osprey

Question 36

What bird has a solid red head?

Answer 36

Red-headed woodpecker

Question 37

What small animal is known for its conical nose?

Answer 37

Shrew

Question 38

What poisonous snake has hourglass-shaped bands on its sides?

Answer 38

Copperhead

Question 39

What animal is slender, green with a long thin tail and can change color due to light, temperature and/or emotions?

Answer 39

Green anole

Question 40

What fish that has a jawbone that extends beyond the back of the eye?

Answer 40

Large mouth bass