Quiz b Flashcards
What animal has the longest nose in the world?
African elephant
How much water can a camel drink in a few minutes?
50 litres
The use of ginger to repel snails and slugs is an example of a
Biocontrol
Where is the slender loris Loris tardigradus - a nocturnal, group living primate - endemic to?
Sri Lanka
The uniformity of abundance between species in a community is
Species evenness
The plantless zone at the bottom of a lake is known as the what zone?
Aphytal
What was the common and scientific name of the world’s largest gecko, which was described by a Maori chief of the Urewera tribe as being as thick as a man’s wrist?
Kawekaweau Hoplodactylus delcourti
The maximum population an ecosystem can support of a given species is its
Carrying capacity
The evolution of characteristics that allow sharing of resources of using them in ways that avoid compeition is
Resource partitioning
Observations that predation that reduces a prey species enough to keep it from competing another species to extinction is
Predator-mediate coexistence
Which population estimation technique does not account for differences in detectability?
Index of abundance
What is a grosbeak?
A type of finch
Who identified the prehistoric coelacanth first seen to science since 400 million year old fossils in 1938 when captured at Chalumna Bay near East London, South Africa?
JLB Smith
Who discovered the night parrot Pezoporus occidentalis in his arid Australian explorations in 1845?
John McDouall Stuart
What is an example of an anapsid - a vertebrate whose skull contains no side openings behind the eyes?
Turtles
The New Zealand government built a lighthouse on Stephens Island in 1984. The lonely lighthouse-keeper, David Lyall, had a pet cat that exterminated which species in under a year?
Stephens Island wren Xenicus lyalli
Peter Berg and Raymond Dasmann coined the term for a naturally bound, ecologically distinct area known as a
Bioregion
How many people did renowned photographer Eric Hosking need as decoys before he could photograph common ravens at their nest?
6
The number of distinct species in a community is its
Species richness
Nutrients imported into an ecosystem by a river are considered
Allochthonous
