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Ecology and Wildlife Conservation, Exams of Company Secretarial Practice

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences (ATSU)Company Secretarial Practice

A wide range of topics related to ecology and wildlife conservation, including concepts such as succession, habitat types, ecosystem services, wildlife management, and conservation policies. It provides detailed information on various ecological principles, the impacts of human activities on natural environments, and the efforts to protect and restore wildlife populations and their habitats. The document delves into the importance of biodiversity, the threats facing different ecosystems, and the strategies employed to address these challenges. It also explores the role of government agencies, conservation organizations, and individual actions in preserving the natural world. Overall, this comprehensive resource offers valuable insights into the complex and interconnected world of ecology and wildlife conservation, making it a valuable reference for students, researchers, and anyone interested in understanding and protecting the natural environment.

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Ducks Unlimited Final Exam Practice Questions with
Complete Solutions.
1. In what year was the Clean Water and Air Act created? - Correct Answer 1948
2. What does NOT influence an organism's niche/survival? - Correct Answer
Commensalism- one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm
3. According to the presentation, ecosystem management was broadened by the
establishment of which of the following in 1978? - Correct Answer Conservation
Biology
4. Which of is known to cause primary succession? - Correct Answer Glacier
Movement
5. What are positive ecological interactions between organisms. - Correct Answer
Commensalism and Mutualism
6. What conducts nitrogen fixation? - Correct Answer Peanuts, Algae and Nitrogen-
fixing bacteria. Humans DO NOT conduct nitrogen fixation.
7. Which of the following best describes respiration? - Correct Answer Intake of
oxygen to convert glucose to energy
8. Where is the phosphorus cycle primarily conducted? - Correct Answer In soil and
plants
9. Which of the following is NOT a category of wetland biome? - Correct Answer
Tropical
10. How would you best describe a pioneer species? - Correct Answer The first species
to colonize an area in primary succession
11. What can influence an organism's niche/survival? - Correct Answer Competition,
Mutualism and Parasitism.
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  1. In what year was the Clean Water and Air Act created? - Correct Answer 1948
  2. What does NOT influence an organism's niche/survival? - Correct Answer Commensalism- one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm
  3. According to the presentation, ecosystem management was broadened by the establishment of which of the following in 1978? - Correct Answer Conservation Biology
  4. Which of is known to cause primary succession? - Correct Answer Glacier Movement
  5. What are positive ecological interactions between organisms. - Correct Answer Commensalism and Mutualism
  6. What conducts nitrogen fixation? - Correct Answer Peanuts, Algae and Nitrogen- fixing bacteria. Humans DO NOT conduct nitrogen fixation.
  7. Which of the following best describes respiration? - Correct Answer Intake of oxygen to convert glucose to energy
  8. Where is the phosphorus cycle primarily conducted? - Correct Answer In soil and plants
  9. Which of the following is NOT a category of wetland biome? - Correct Answer Tropical
  10. How would you best describe a pioneer species? - Correct Answer The first species to colonize an area in primary succession
  11. What can influence an organism's niche/survival? - Correct Answer Competition, Mutualism and Parasitism.
  1. What is mutualism? - Correct Answer symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved.
  2. What is parasitism? - Correct Answer One organism benefits and the other is harmed
  3. What is primary succession? - Correct Answer Succession that begins in an area with no remnants of an older community. The first to find habitat in an area.
  4. What wetlands is dominated by emergent vegetation? - Correct Answer Marshes
  5. A large plot of land in a grassland ecosystem was converted for agriculture. After four decades of agricultural use the land was abandoned and began to revert to its original grassland state. This is an example of which of the following? - Correct Answer Secondary succession
  6. In what year was the Federal Water Pollution Control Act established? - Correct Answer 1948
  7. Denitrification is an essential step in which of the following cycles? - Correct Answer Nitrogen
  8. What is true about chlorophyll? - Correct Answer It is required in order to perform photosynthesis
  9. Organisms do NOT require nutrients, or chemical substances, during what phase? - Correct Answer Sleep
  10. Organisms require nutrients, or chemical substances, during what phases? - Correct Answer Growth, Maintenance and Reproduction
  11. Grasslands are dominated by grasses and several species of forbs. Which of the following best describes a forb? - Correct Answer Broadleaf plants and lower shrub vegetation
  12. Grassland Habitat - Correct Answer
  1. The Civilian Conservation Corps was created to repair damaged environments and improve unemployment as part of which of the following conservation acts? - Correct Answer National Economic Restoration Plan
  2. How would you describe a taiga? - Correct Answer Northernmost forests with seasonal climate including long winters and short summers.
  3. Fill in the blank. Marine habitats cover more than ____ percent of the earth's surface. - Correct Answer 70%
  4. Preservation is the act of rebuilding an area suffering severe habitat loss. - Correct Answer False, that's restoring a habitat. Preserving a habitat involves preventing the loss of it.
  5. Which legislation provides $funding$ for conservation programs to help 👨🌾 farmers 🛠️ restore and ⚔️ protect🛡️ wetlands? - Correct Answer The Farm Bill
  6. Which of the following is a private organization which has conserved more than 14 million acres since its founding and has sister organizations in both Canada and Mexico which have collectively raised more than $2 billion through the "Rescue Our Wetlands" campaign? - Correct Answer Ducks Unlimited!
  7. What is an example that corresponds to the category of protection restoration efforts? - Correct Answer Conservation easement or regulatory measure like the Organic Actwhich prevents habitats from being converted or fragmented 🚫🚫🌲→🏢 🚫🚫
  8. Water found in a wetland with woody plants, saturated or slow-moving water and low oxygen levels in the soil is known as what? - Correct Answer A Swamp
  9. Carol works for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and is surveying an area to determine if it meets the requirements to be classified as a wetland. What are the requirements for the environment to be considered a wetland? - Correct Answer 1. The area must support hydrophytic (plants that live and thrive primarily in water) plants for at least parts of the year.
    1. The area is saturated (with water) during part of the growing season
    1. The soil is primary hydric, formed under prolonged flooding
  1. What is not a requirement for an area to be considered a wetland? - Correct Answer The area having standing water year-round. As many go through dry seasons.
  2. T/F One acre of wetlands filters 7.3 gallons of water a month into fresh drinking water. - Correct Answer False.
  3. Describe a stopover site - Correct Answer Habitats utilized by migratory birds for resources along the flyway during bi-annual migration
  4. Which state is NOT currently experiencing wetland reductions of between 80 to 100 percent? - Correct Answer Texas
  5. Which state IS currently experiencing wetland reductions of between 80 to 100 percent? - Correct Answer Iowa, Missouri and California
  6. Describe Taxonomy - Correct Answer 1. Branch of science where organisms are classified and named based on their similarities and differences.
    1. Places an organism in descending, ordered groups which share more specific similarities with the organism than the previous group
    1. Begins by placing an organism in a kingdom all the way down to a species
  9. Which is defined by having a diet which consists of a majority of animal protein? - Correct Answer Carnivora
  10. Describe a herbivore - Correct Answer an animal that gets its energy by eating plants
  11. Describe an omnivore - Correct Answer something that eats both plants and animals
  12. Adrian was hired by a company to survey for endangered species before a construction project. As part of this survey, they wish to know species diversity on the property. While on his first survey Adrian sees a bird he has never seen before, so he takes detailed notes and a picture with plans to identify it later. The bird has a distinctly hooked beak, bright yellow legs, and a bright yellow ring around the eye. What family does this bird belong to? - Correct Answer Falconidae (Root word falcon)
  1. Since the start of the Duck Stamp Act in 1934, how many national wildlife refuges have been created or expanded? - Correct Answer 300
  2. What act enabled funding through the sale of firearms, ammunition and sporting goods? - Correct Answer Pittman-Roberston Act
  3. Which of the following Acts grants the right for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to evaluate the impact of any federal or state actions affecting control or modification of bodies of water? - Correct Answer Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
  4. Who published the very first textbook about game management? - Correct Answer Aldo Leopold
  5. Paul is a park ranger in charge of removing a brown bear which has been invading campsites and has grown comfortable around park guests. Paul sets up motion sensors which rapidly flash lights when triggered around the border of the park. After a period of time, Paul notices there have not been any more bear sightings in the park. This is an example of which of the following? - Correct Answer Behavior modification
  6. If an area has an over-abundant population and the habitat can no longer sustain the population, the population has surpassed the_________. - Correct Answer Carrying capacity
  7. Which adds to abundance(increase)? - Correct Answer immigration (because they are coming in)
  8. Which of the following methods is used during mark and recapture? - Correct Answer Leg band
  9. Tourism and recreation are examples of which of the following services provided by habitats? - Correct Answer Cultural
  10. What percentage of fresh water is trapped in glaciers or underground aquifers? - Correct Answer 99%
  11. Which would most likely be found in a bog? - Correct Answer Carnivorous Plants
  1. What is true about rainforests. - Correct Answer Covers six percent of the earth and contains half of all the species of plants and animals on earth.
  2. Where do you find mosses and lichen? - Correct Answer In the tundra
  3. Where of you find evergreen trees? - Correct Answer taiga
  4. where do you find trees with color-changing leaves such as oak, maple and beech?
    • Correct Answer deciduous forests
  5. Where can you find plants with shallow widespread roots and thick leaves? - Correct Answer Deserts
  6. where can you find large evergreen trees, vines, ferns and mosses? - Correct Answer tropical rainforests
  7. Where can you find various species of grasses? - Correct Answer grasslands
  8. Define habitat fragmentation - Correct Answer Breaking up habitats to the point where the habitat can no longer remain functional
  9. Habitat degradation - Correct Answer Act of polluting or otherwise altering a habitat until the quality of the habitat can no longer support life
  10. Habitat destruction - Correct Answer Act of COMPLETE loss of habitat through direct human involvement
  11. Aquatic - Correct Answer Relating to water
  12. terrestrial - Correct Answer Relating to soil or dry land
  13. phytoplankton - Correct Answer floating algae
  14. crustaceans - Correct Answer invertebrate aquatic animals. such as crab, lobster or shrimp
  1. Name the forest layers from bottom to the top. - Correct Answer 1. Forest floor,
    1. Herb Layer,
    1. Shrub Layer,
    1. Understory Layer,
    1. Canopy
  6. How much of the earth's land surface is covered with grasslands? - Correct Answer 20 - 40%
  7. What are the main threats which plagues grasslands today? - Correct Answer Urbanization, Climate Change, Unsustainable agriculture
  8. describe the Farm Bill - Correct Answer Incentives provided to landowners to conserve grassland habitats
  9. What are all the services grasslands provide. - Correct Answer Build deep and rich soils.
  10. Store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Filter runoff from precipitation.
  11. Provide very important habitat for wildlife.
  12. Where are savannas typically found? - Correct Answer Africa, Australia and South America
  13. Tillage is primarily used for which of the following? - Correct Answer Control weeds and aerate soil
  14. Grasslands typically exist between which of the following? - Correct Answer Forests and desert
  15. T/F When topsoil is lost, the loss is fairly permanent because the process to create just three centimeters of topsoil takes about 1,000 years. - Correct Answer True
  16. Which of the following is the specific mission of the Natural Resources Conservation Service? - Correct Answer To conserve soils for agricultural production
  1. Why do temperate grasslands have the most fertile soil on earth? - Correct Answer Grass roots decaying below the surface enriches the soil with nutrients
  2. Select the correct phrase from the two options in the underlined sections.
  3. A wetland is an area which has hydric (which means permanently or seasonally saturated with water / which means it is free of oxygen,) and anerobic (which means permanently or seasonally saturated with water / which means it is free of oxygen) soil and supports a plant community which is adapted to living in these soils. - Correct Answer which means permanently or seasonally saturated with water AND which means it is free of oxygen
  4. Factors in which a wetland is classified - Correct Answer Landscape position
  5. Vegetation cover
  6. Hydrological regime
  7. A wetland with woody plants, saturated/slow moving water and a lack of oxygen in the soil can be described as a _____. - Correct Answer Swamp
  8. Levees are most commonly used for what? - Correct Answer Stopping water from naturally changing course
  9. Why are wetlands are economically important? - Correct Answer Wetlands provide both commercial and recreational fisheries
  10. T/F Hurricanes do less financial damage, flood further inland and displace more people when coasts are heavily developed. - Correct Answer False
  11. Wetlands are critical for... - Correct Answer Maintaining biodiversity
  12. Protecting freshwater quality
  13. Providing groundwater recharge
  14. Which year was the Duck Stamp Act enacted? - Correct Answer 1934
  15. Which president enacted the Farm Bill? - Correct Answer Franklin D. Roosevelt
  16. Causes of degradation to a wetland - Correct Answer Soil runoff
  17. Sedimentation
  1. Which of the following is the most specific level of taxonomy? A. Class - Correct Answer Species
  2. Put the taxonomic groups in order from largest to smallest - Correct Answer Domain
  3. Kingdom
  4. Phylum
  5. Class
  6. Order
  7. Family
  8. Genus
  9. Species
  10. Which of the following is the most abundant cervid species in North America? - Correct Answer White-tailed deer
  11. Which of the following species has the diagnostic characteristic of modified feathers which resemble a beard? - Correct Answer Wild turkey
  12. Which of the following families includes species which have horns present? - Correct Answer Bovidae
  13. Which of the following is the largest order of class Aves? - Correct Answer Passeriformes
  14. T/F White-tailed deer are the most abundant species in North America. - Correct Answer True
  15. T/F Moose antlers have one main beam with additional points coming from the beam. - Correct Answer False
  16. T/F Elk belong to family Bovidae. - Correct Answer False
  17. (Mule / White-tailed) deer have a white underside of their tail used as a flag when startled while (mule / white-tailed) deer have a mostly dark tail with a black tip.
- Correct Answer White-tailed and mule
  1. Which of the following orders is classified by arm, hand and extra long finger bones covered with a membrane which resembles a wing? - Correct Answer Chiroptera
  2. Which family is most closely related to giraffes? - Correct Answer Antilocapridae
  3. Which of the following is the only species of marsupials in North America? - Correct Answer Virginia opossum
  4. Bobcats belong to family Canidae. - Correct Answer False
  5. The Eastern spotted skunk belongs to family mephitidae. - Correct Answer True
  6. Order chiroptera is defined as species with armored bodies. - Correct Answer False
  7. Which of the following families do NOT belong to order carnivora? - Correct Answer Icteridae
  8. Which of the following families includes species which have retractable claws? - Correct Answer Felidae
  9. (Mourning / White-winged) dove have a white edge on the leading edge of the wing and (mourning / white-winged) dove have a gray back with black spots on the wings. - Correct Answer White-winged and mourning
  10. Game animals bring in money to fund wildlife conservation. - Correct Answer True
  11. If apex predators are a game species they are considered big game. - Correct Answer True
  12. Furbearers are species harvested for their pelts. - Correct Answer True
  13. Which order is classified by their long, broad wings for soaring? - Correct Answer Accipitriformes
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  2. Which individual was thought to do more to conserve wildlife than any single individual in U.S. history? - Correct Answer President Theodore Roosevelt
  3. Which of the following principles was influenced by the Public Trust Doctrine established in 1842? - Correct Answer Wildlife resources are a public property
  4. Which of the following was the first federal law protecting wildlife? - Correct Answer Lacey Act
  5. According to the presentation, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 is credited with saving which of the following species from extinction? - Correct Answer Snowy egret
  6. Under the pillar which states markets for game are eliminated, exceptions can be made for some fur-bearing species. - Correct Answer True
  7. Which of the following is NOT needed when it comes to managing species and habitats? - Correct Answer Life history
  8. Who acquired the sporting journal Forest and Stream and used it to promote wildlife conservation? - Correct Answer eorge Bird Grinnell
  9. Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act - Correct Answer 1934
  10. Lacey Act - Correct Answer 1900
  11. Endangered Species Act - Correct Answer 1973
  12. Memorize the following statement - Correct Answer The Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act of 1934 requires each waterfowl hunter 16 years of age or older to possess a valid Federal hunting stamp.