Chapter 2 Review Questions |
| 1. |
Wildlife
conservation ensures that __________.
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Hunting seasons established by Kublai Kahn will
continue
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No animals are ever harvested
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Natural resources can be drawn on despite unwise
use
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Renewable resources can replenish themselves indefinitely
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| 2. |
Wildlife
preservation __________.
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Allows for the consumptive use of natural resources
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Is a Biblical rule for saving natural resources
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Saves natural resources but with no consumptive
use of them
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Allows hunting of endangered species
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| 3. |
A habitat
for wildlife must include __________.
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Space, arrangement, food, cover, and water
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Brush and rocks, predators, water, and space
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Space, vegetation, food, and resting and breeding
places
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Cover, predators, large area, arrangement, and
food
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| 4. |
The "carrying
capacity" of a wildlife area is the
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| 5. |
List four factors that can limit the potential production of wildlife.
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| 6. |
Hunting
is an effective wildlife conservation tool because
__________.
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Funding from hunting licenses helps many game and
non-game species recover from dwindling populations
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Hunters play an important role by supplying wildlife
managers with needed information from the field
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Hunting contributes to threatened or endangered
wildlife
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Funding from hunting licenses helps many game and
non-game species recover from dwindling populations
AND hunters play an important role by supplying
wildlife managers with needed information from
the field
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| 7. |
By continuously
monitoring the birth rate and death rate of various
species and the condition of their habitat, wildlife
managers __________ .
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Know how to set hunting regulations and determine
if other management practices are needed to conserve
wildlife species
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Know when to ignore hunting regulations they set
earlier
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Can obtain data to eliminate wildlife species
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Know how to set hunting regulations and determine
if other management practices are needed to conserve
wildlife species AND can obtain data to eliminate
wildlife species
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| 8. |
Trapping
and relocating animals is an example of the __________
wildlife management practice.
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Hunting
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Artificial stocking
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Setting bag limits and legal methods for taking
wildlife
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Habitat improvement
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| 9. |
It is critical
that hunters are able to identify wildlife correctly
so that they don't mistakenly __________.
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Harvest illegal game animals or non-game animals
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Confuse horns with antlers
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Confuse cloven hooves with cud chewers
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Confuse meat-eating animals with those that eat
meat as well as plants
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