Quiz a

Question 1

Species that live far apart but in similar niches and ecosystems are considered

Answer 1

Ecological equivalents

Question 2

Alternative combinations of ecosystem states and environmental conditions that may persist at a particular spatial extent and temporal scale are known as

Answer 2

Alternative stable states

Question 3

What has the thickest skin of the pachyderms?

Answer 3

Rhinoceros

Question 4

A well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on knowledge that has been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experimentation is known as a:

Answer 4

Scientific theory

Question 5

A transitional zone between adjacent communities is an

Answer 5

Ectozone

Question 6

Who coined the term ‘ecology’?

Answer 6

Ernst Haeckel

Question 7

A state in which animals whose ancestors had been domesticated but which now exist as free-living, unmanaged and self-sustaining populations is

Answer 7

Feral

Question 8

A testible or falsifiable proposed explanation for a phenomenon is a:

Answer 8

Scientific hypothesis

Question 9

Flying lemurs or colugos can live for over 100 m and live where?

Answer 9

Southeast asia

Question 10

The probability of an event is 0.01. Which of the following statements is correct?

Answer 10

The event is unlikely to occur.

Question 11

Gerard Krefft collected eight of which peculiar gaited species on the Blandowski expedition of 1857 to the arid junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers in Australia and found them to be ‘very good eating’?

Answer 11

Pig-footed bandicoot Chaeropus ecaudatus

Question 12

Who showed that chloroplasts were the plant’s equivalent of mitochondria?

Answer 12

Lynn Margulis

Question 13

An organism that eats both animals and plants is

Answer 13

Omnivorous

Question 14

A plant that grows, reproduces and dies in one season is

Answer 14

An annual

Question 15

The theft of food by one species from another is known as

Answer 15

Kleptoparatism

Question 16

The timeframe to which conservation managers aim to restore conditions to is the conservation

Answer 16

Benchmark

Question 17

The area covered by a migratory bird through its annual cycle, including breeding and non-breeding grounds and the migratory route is the

Answer 17

Flyway

Question 18

The indri was named by a French naturalist after his Malagasy guide pointed out the animal and said “iry”, which translates as what?

Answer 18

There it is

Question 19

A species that eats fish is

Answer 19

Piscivourous

Question 20

Breeding individuals that have been isolated from one another in generally separate gene pools that have had some different alleles fixed is

Answer 20

Outbreeding depression