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Quid d Flashcards

1
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Which enormous, but excentric 19th Century banking scion amassed the greatest natural history collection in private hands, but sold it to a blackmailer to keep news of their affair from his mother?

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Lord Walter Rothschild

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What Guadalupe raptor was persecuted by sheep graziers and was last collected on 1st December 1900 by collector Rollo Beck when he shot 9 of the 11 he observed?

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Guadalupe caracara (Polyborus lutosus)

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A biotic community and its surroundings including the biotic and abiotic parts is knows as

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An ecosystem

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4
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The energy molecule that powers organisms by fueling cell reactions is

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ATP

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What is the minimum number of bearings required to triangulate to a radio collared animal?

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3

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Name two species first collected by French missionary Pere Armand David.

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Panda and Pere David’s deer

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What island supports the world’s last 250 pink pigeons and 350 kestrels?

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Mauritius

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What is the world’s largest land gastropod?

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African giant snail

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9
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Who introduced the term ‘ecosystem’ to ecological parlance in 1935?

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Sir Arthur G Tansley

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What group of birds did the Jamaican least-pauraque Siphonorhis americanus belong to? It was distinguishable by its strange tubular nostrils around 2mm long, but no natural history information was collected before its extinction in 1859, other than it being nocturnal.

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Nightjars

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A small area used for ecological study, often a 1 x 1 m square, is a

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Quadrat

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What is the scientific name for the Harpy eagle?

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Harpia harpyja

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13
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The jaws of mammals are joined by which bones?

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Squarmosal and Dentary

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The hard, keratin-filled outer layer of a tetrapods claw is the

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Unguis

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What does it mean for a result to be statistically signicant?

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The result is too large to be consistent with chance variability

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16
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The type of genetic drift in which genes from founder individuals show up more consistently in their offspring than other combinations is known as

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The founder effect

17
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The concentration of pollutants in the body tissue of generally top-order species is known as what?

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Bioaccumilation

18
Q

The first land plants appeared during the

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Silurian

19
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What lake has the greatest diversity of freshwater fish in the world?

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Lake Malawi

20
Q

An explanation of some aspect of the natural world that has been substantiated via repeated experiments or testing is

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A law

21
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What three species were introduced to the Hawaiian islands during Captain Cook’s third and fateful voyage that are likely to have contributed to the extinction of the Hawaiian spotted rail Pennula sandwichensis?

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Mongoose, rat, cat

22
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Nutrient cycling is a what type of ecosystem service?

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Supporting

23
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The accidental harvest of one organism instead of another, like dolphins caught in tuna nets, is

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Bycatch

24
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The conservation of components of biodiversity outside their natural habitats is

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Ex-situ conservation

25
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The total number of species within a community or defined area is referred to as

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Species richness

26
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Of the 5-30 million species estimated to live on Earth, how many have been formally described?

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1.7-2 billion

27
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What percentage of pine nuts can a Clarke’s nutcracker relocate 6 months after burying them?

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0.8

28
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Which if these is not a synonym for assisted colonisation according to the latest IUCN Reintroduction Specialist Group Guidelines?

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Indroduction

29
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Ecological succession that is driven by pioneer species that prepare the way for later species on and into the climax defines the

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Facilitation model of succession

30
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Interactions between species that impact how both evolve, for example bees and plants needing pollination, are known as

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Coevolution

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