Wildlife Management Quiz

140 Questions | By Kmfunder | Updated: Oct 14, 2022 | Attempts: 862

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Wildlife is the gift of nature; we must ensure it is preserved. This wildlife management quiz will show you how to ensure wildlife richness and diversity. The quiz contains various wildlife management test questions that will help you know about methods, strategies, guidelines, etc. , to preserve wildlife. If you like the quiz, do share it with your friends and family. Let's make the world more aware of the need to protect and preserve wildlife. All the best!

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1.

What animals would be considered wildlife?
- A.
  
  Mammals and birds only
- B.
  
  Game and non-game species
- C.
  
  Depends on one's perspective
- D.
  
  Mammals but not fish
- E.
  
  Reptiles and amphibians
2.

Wildlife has value in which of the following ways:
- A.
  
  Material, spiritual, economic
- B.
  
  Scientific, economic
- C.
  
  Ecological, scientific, spiritual
- D.
  
  Intrinsic, ecological, economic
- E.
  
  Ecological, spiritual, material, intrinsic, economic, scientific
3.

Man's attitude towards wildlife over time has included which of the following?
- A.
  
  Market hunting
- B.
  
  Sport hunting
- C.
  
  Wildlife as an obstacle to pioneers
- D.
  
  Subsistence hunting
- E.
  
  All of the above
4.

Which of the following is not a part of Adaptive Resource Management?
- A.
  
  Acknowledging incomplete knowledge of ecosystems
- B.
  
  Doing management as an "experiment"
- C.
  
  A linear management process
- D.
  
  Monitoring
- E.
  
  None of the above
5.

Wildlife management can be financed in part by:
- A.
  
  Sales tax
- B.
  
  License plate sales
- C.
  
  Income tax check offs
- D.
  
  Excise taxes
- E.
  
  All of the above
6.

In North Carolina, the management of non-game species is principally financed by:
- A.
  
  Hunting and fishing license sales
- B.
  
  Teaming with Wildlife funds
- C.
  
  Passage of the Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA)
- D.
  
  State Wildlife Grants
- E.
  
  None of the above
7.

Who said "To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering"?
- A.
  
  Teddy Roosevelt
- B.
  
  James Watt
- C.
  
  Gifford Pinchot
- D.
  
  Aldo Leopold
- E.
  
  None of the above
8.

Who established Pelican Island Sanctuary?
- A.
  
  Teddy Roosevelt
- B.
  
  James Watt
- C.
  
  Gifford Pinchot
- D.
  
  Aldo Leopold
- E.
  
  None of the above
9.

What contributed to the extinction of the passenger pigeon?
- A.
  
  Railroads and telegraphs
- B.
  
  Fragmentation of pine forest in the Southeast
- C.
  
  Breeding in small groups
- D.
  
  Poor flying ability
- E.
  
  None of the above
10.

Which of the following species is extinct?
- A.
  
  Heath hen
- B.
  
  Carolina parakeet
- C.
  
  Stellar's sea cow
- D.
  
  Labrador duck
- E.
  
  All of the above
11.

A common theme for species that become extinct could involve:
- A.
  
  Introduced species
- B.
  
  Distribution confined to islands
- C.
  
  Habitat loss
- D.
  
  Over exploitation
- E.
  
  All of the above
12.

Bounties as a means to control overabundant or unwanted wildlife
- A.
  
  Are effective.
- B.
  
  Tend to encourage removing only the "annual surplus."
- C.
  
  Are no longer used as a management strategy.
- D.
  
  Are a cheap and easy to administer wildlife management strategy.
- E.
  
  None of the above
13.

Which of the following is not an exotic species currently living in North Carolina?
- A.
  
  Brown trout
- B.
  
  House sparrow
- C.
  
  Mute swan
- D.
  
  Brown tree snake
- E.
  
  None of the above
14.

William T. Hornaday
- A.
  
  Was a director of the New York Zoological Park
- B.
  
  Helped save the bison from extinction
- C.
  
  Was a contemporary of Teddy Roosevelt
- D.
  
  All of the above
- E.
  
  None of the above
15.

Which of the following is not true of bison in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem?
- A.
  
  In the late 1960's the population was allowed to "fluctuate naturally" and grew from about 400 to about 3,500 over the next few decades.
- B.
  
  They care brucellosis, which is a concern for cattle ranches in Montana.
- C.
  
  They make up a majority of the prey items of wolves.
- D.
  
  Bison wandering outside Yellowstone Park can be killed.
- E.
  
  None of the above
16.

Lead availability to wildlife can depend on
- A.
  
  Hunting and fishing pressure
- B.
  
  Water chemistry
- C.
  
  Substrate texture
- D.
  
  Cultivation
- E.
  
  All of the above
17.

Lead poisoning of wildlife is mainly a problem for
- A.
  
  Fish
- B.
  
  Reptiles
- C.
  
  Mammals
- D.
  
  Waterfowl
- E.
  
  All of the above
18.

Although lead shot was banned in the U.S. and Canada by 1999, many sportsmen and manufacturers were against the ban because they feared that
- A.
  
  Gun barrels would be damaged
- B.
  
  Crippling losses would be greater
- C.
  
  Shotgun shells would be prohibitively expensive
- D.
  
  A and C
- E.
  
  All of the above
19.

Recovery of wood ducks in the Southeast involved which of the following:
- A.
  
  Increased restrictions on hunting
- B.
  
  More flooded woodlands concomitant with an increase in beaver populations
- C.
  
  Wide-spread installation of next boxes
- D.
  
  All of the above
- E.
  
  None of the above
20.

Which is not true of gray wolf populations?
- A.
  
  Wisconsin and Michigan each have gray wolf populations.
- B.
  
  Gray wolves in the West were removed from the endangered species list in 2008
- C.
  
  There are about 2,500 gray wolves in Minnesota
- D.
  
  Alaska has thousands of gray wolves
- E.
  
  North Carolina has about 100 gray wolves
21.

In Italy,
- A.
  
  Wolves were extirpated long ago
- B.
  
  Marsican brown bears were extirpated long ago
- C.
  
  Parco Nationale d'Abruzzo, east of Rome, has wolves and brown bears
- D.
  
  Wolves in the Apennine Mountains prey on Chamois, deer, and wild boar
- E.
  
  C and D
22.

Which form of life is found on Earth?
- A.
  
  Carbon based
- B.
  
  Sulfur based chemoautotrophic
- C.
  
  Subsurface lithoautotrophic
- D.
  
  A and B only
- E.
  
  All of the above
23.

The process of energy transfer between trophic levels
- A.
  
  Is only about 10% efficient
- B.
  
  Implies there are fewer carnivores than herbivores in the Serengeti
- C.
  
  Implies there cannot be a lot of top level carnivores
- D.
  
  Implies the length of the food chain is limited
- E.
  
  All of the above
24.

Beavers have a narrow thermoneutral zone because
- A.
  
  They are a large rodent
- B.
  
  They are semi aquatic and can modify their environment
- C.
  
  They transfer plant energy to beaver biomass more efficiently than most herbivores
- D.
  
  They are like sea otters and have little fat to insulate them
- E.
  
  None of the above
25.

Which of the following is often associated with r-selected species?
- A.
  
  Large body size
- B.
  
  Good competitors
- C.
  
  Poor dispersers
- D.
  
  Low turnover rate
- E.
  
  None of the above