Quiz x

Question 1

A hooved mammal with a four-chambered stomach that masticates, regurgitates and masticates again is a

Answer 1

Ruminant

Question 2

Speed at which a system returns to its former state after it has been perturbed and displaced from that state is its

Answer 2

c) Ecological resilience

Question 3

Species that gather in globally significant numbers at a particular site and at a particular time in their life cycle for feeding, breeding or resting is a

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a) Congregatory species

Question 4

The Order that includes manitees and dugongs is

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b) Sirenia

Question 5

What is metapopulation?

Answer 5

A metapopulation is a group of populations that are separated by space but consist of the same species. These spatially separated populations interact as individual members move from one population to another.

Question 6

Who made the only collection of the now extinct Kittlitz’s plover Zootheria terrestris and Bonin Islands Grosbeak Chaunoproctus ferreorostris from Japan in 1828?

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c) Friedrich von Kittlitz

Question 7

Species introduced outside their normal distribution that modify ecosystems, habitats, or species are:

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c) Invasive alien species

Question 8

Mosquito control is a regulating ecosystem service performed by what?

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d) Bats

Question 9

The Arctic tern has a wingspan of 76-85 cm that it uses to migrate annually how far?

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d) 80,000 km

Question 10

What type of competition is occurs where there is a winner and a loser and where resources can be attained completely or not at all?

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b) Contest competition

Question 11

The selection of characteristics that differ substantially between two species to evolve minimal competition is

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b) Character displacement

Question 12

What kind of a statistical test results should be presented like - F = 9.226, N = 24, p

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Regression

Question 13

The non-material benefits people gain from ecosystems through spiritual enrichment, cognitive development, reflection, recreation, and aesthetic experience are

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Cultural services

Question 14

A plant species that seeds more than once is

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Perennial

Question 15

The term used to describe the variety of life on Earth is:

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Biodiversity

Question 16

Several threatening processes combining to hasten the decline of a population toward extinction is know as

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An extinction vortex

Question 17

What is the only member of the mammalian order Tubulidentata?

Answer 17

Aardvark

Question 18

A description of the behavioural repertoire of an animal is what?

Answer 18

Ethogram

Question 19

What is the biggest animal ever to have lived?

Answer 19

Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)

Question 20

According to Meijaard & Nijman (2014), a species that is rediscovered after being considered extinct is a

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Lazarus species

Question 21

Which term does not describe someone who refuses to accept human-caused climate change?

Answer 21

Skeptic

Question 22

How does river regulation threaten fish populations?

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Movement inhibition affecting spawning

Question 23

The aardwolf is a member of the Hyaenidae and its main food is what?

Answer 23

Termites

Question 24

The most common method to reduce the build up of fuels to limit the impact of bushfires is

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Prescribed burning

Question 25

Jacobs’ index value of 0.4 suggests a particular habitat is

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Preferred

Question 26

The waxy layer of cutin that protects the surface of leaves is the

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Cuticle

Question 27

A habitat where local mortality exceeds local reproductive success for a given species is considered a

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Sink habitat

Question 28

What does a detection function show?

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The decline in objects observed as you move away from the transect centre line

Question 29

Where does the majority of the world’s saiga antelope Saiga tatarica population persist?

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Kazakstan

Question 30

An animal that is active by night is

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Nocturnal