Quiz z

Question 1

Although the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) feeds on bamboo and are threatened by habitat loss, why is its common name a misnomer?

Answer 1

It’s a racoon

Question 2

What type of competition is characterised by one species preventing another species from obtaining a resource?

Answer 2

Restrictive competition

Question 3

The outward, bodily manifestation of the genotype is the

Answer 3

Phenotype

Question 4

Who coined the phrase ‘deep ecology’ in 1973?

Answer 4

Arne Naess

Question 5

Human’s support two species of lice - head and pubic. What species support their closest relatives?

Answer 5

Chimpanzee and gorilla

Question 6

What introduced rodent was eradicated from the UK in 1989?

Answer 6

Coypu/Nutria

Question 7

The effect where intraspecific competition leads to inverse density dependence or populations suffer a decreased rate of increase at low densities is known as what?

Answer 7

Allee effect

- correlation between population size or density and the mean individual fitness

Question 8

What is a black panther?

Answer 8

Melanistic felid

Question 9

At 7:52am on 8 May, 1902, what event happened that drove the Martinique giant rice-rat extinct? (Megalomys desmarestii)

Answer 9

Mt Pelee erupted

Question 10

What country is home to the world’s largest and smallest chameleons?

Answer 10

Madagascar

Question 11

Giving-up density is a method used to measure what?

Answer 11

Perception of risk

Question 12

Disease control is what form of ecosystem service?

Answer 12

Regulating

Question 13

Which great white hunter had a conservation reserve named after him in Tanzania?

Answer 13

Frederick Selous

Question 14

A word used to describe a love of nature, coined by EO Wilson, is

Answer 14

Biophilia

Question 15

Diving to 565m, what bird can dive the deepest?

Answer 15

Emporer penguin

Question 16

What is the world’s largest antelope?

Answer 16

Eland

Question 17

The ideal range of suitable conditions for a species in the absence of competition or predators is its

Answer 17

Fundamental niche

Question 18

The tissue in plants that transports food via hydrostatis pressure is the

Answer 18

Phloem

Question 19

A population that, because of its size and the quality of its habitat, produces a net number of immigrants is a

Answer 19

Source population

Question 20

Usually, the sum of fecundity of all reproductive age classes is termed

Answer 20

Recruitment

Question 21

The evolution of many new species from relative few ancestor species is known as what?

Answer 21

Adaptive radiation

Question 22

What are the two aspects of Caughley’s dicotomy?

Answer 22

Small-population paradigm cf declining-population paradigm

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Character displacement