Quiz e

Question 1

An organism that consumes other organisms, whether living or dead is a

Answer 1

Consumer

Question 2

What does the Zoological Society of London’s EDGE of existence program do?

Answer 2

Prioritises species based on their evolutionary distinctiveness and conservation status

Question 3

Natural selection acts on

Answer 3

Individuals

Question 4

How many humps does a Bactrian camel have?

Answer 4

1

Question 5

The tiger belongs to what Order?

Answer 5

Carnivora

Question 6

What species was observed by John Fraser taking three days for a migrating herd to pass through Beaufort West in 1849?

Answer 6

Springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis)

Question 7

What is the annual point at which the Earth is furthest from the Sun (152.5 million km)?

Answer 7

Aphelion

Question 8

The largest ecological region distinguishable by characteristic plants and animals that is convenient to recognise below the entire planet is a

Answer 8

Biome

Question 9

Where does the world’s largest wild population of dromodary camel live?

Answer 9

Australia

Question 10

The business practice of patenting seeds and other indigenously grown agricultural produces is known as

Answer 10

Biopracy

Question 11

The rationale to conserve biodiversity based on its inherent worth, independent of its value to anyone is its

Answer 11

Intristic value

Question 12

The long-nosed echidna Zaglossus bartoni lives where?

Answer 12

Papua New Guinea

Question 13

A strip of habitat of varying width that facilitates fauna movement between otherwise isolated patches of habitat is known as a

Answer 13

Corridor

Question 14

Which Frenchman was the first European to describe the giant panda Ailuropoda melanoleuca?

Answer 14

Pere Armand David

Question 15

What percentage of its mother’s body mass is a newborn giant panda Ailuropoda melanoleuca?

Answer 15

0.00001

Question 16

The Cambrian Period is renowned for

Answer 16

An explosion of animal life

Question 17

The number of distinct species in a community is its

Answer 17

Species richness

Question 18

A generalised linear model within a maximum likelihood framework has a delta AIC value of 1.9 . What does this mean?

Answer 18

The model is strongly supported

Question 19

When was the last mass extinction event, prior to the present?

Answer 19

65 mya

Question 20

Liebig’s law of the minimum states that growth is controlled by the scarcest resource (limiting factor) rather than the total amount of resources. Who developed the principle in 1828?

Answer 20

Carl Sprengel

Question 21

The movement of individuals among spatially separate patches of habitat is known as what?

Answer 21

Dispersal

Question 22

How old is the Earth?

Answer 22

4.5 billion years

Question 23

The reference state against which change is measured is the

Answer 23

Baseline

Question 24

A plant that grows on another plant, but does not obtain nutrients from it is

Answer 24

An epophyte

Question 25

What is the most effective method used to monitor invasive American mink in the UK?

Answer 25

Rafts

Question 26

A large, sudden widespread change in the environment that causes extensive and relatively rapid change in survival or fecundity of a species is known as a

Answer 26

Catastrophe

Question 27

Ula-ai-hawane Ciridops anna was a beautiful diminutive bird last caught on the big island in 1892 that’s name meant ‘the red bird that feeds upon the hawane palm’. What country was it from?

Answer 27

Hawaii

Question 28

A disease which threatens many animals at once is

Answer 28

Epizootic

Question 29

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

Answer 29

3

Question 30

Which population estimation technique does not account for differences in detectability?

Answer 30

Index of abundance