BSC 340 questions with accurate answers
_________ can prevent scientist from obtaining _______, so scientists
can use _______ from the areas instead and use ______ to estimate
additional features about those areas. Ans✓✓✓ Weather, aerial
photographs, satellite imagery, models
2km^2 Ans✓✓✓ The figure below shows a landscape. Each square is 1
km by 1 km. Core habitat must be 1 km from the edge of the patch.
Habitat is shown in black. What is the total area of core habitat?
Remember to include the units.
45 km ^2 Ans✓✓✓ The figure below shows a landscape. Each square is
1 km by 1 km. Habitat is shown in black. What is the total area of
habitat? Remember to include the units.
6 Ans✓✓✓ The figure below shows a landscape. Habitat is shown in
black. How many habitat patches are there?
68 km Ans✓✓✓ The figure below shows a landscape. Each square is 1
km by 1 km. Core habitat must be 1 km from the edge of the patch.
Habitat is shown in black. What is the total length of edge around
habitat? Remember to include the units.
7,800 Ans✓✓✓ K = 50,000
N= 25,000
To achieve MSY we should harvest
,A conservation easement protects land owned by whom Ans✓✓✓
Private landownder
A fully stocked stand is? Ans✓✓✓ A forest where trees are spaced for
maximum timber production
A kind of organism that is reproductively isolated from other groups in
nature Ans✓✓✓ species
A strength of structured decision making is Ans✓✓✓ Incorporates
multiple, seeming conflicting values
Incorporates management constraints
Incorporates both values and knowledge to analyze decision options
Represents uncertainty in knowledge
A strength of structured decision making is that it first identifies
Ans✓✓✓ Objectives
Ability of a given level of harvest to produce profits over a long period
of time Ans✓✓✓ Economic viability
Ability of an ecosystem to cope with a given level of use indefinitely
Ans✓✓✓ Sustainability
,According to the flux of nature paradigm, ecosystems often Ans✓✓✓
are not near or approaching equilibrium because disturbances are
widespread and frequent
According to the sustainable-ecosystem approach, what should the role
of reserves be? Ans✓✓✓ They should be managed to provide a link
between conservation and benefits for people, such as allowing some
extraction or tourism revenue to benefit local people
According to the theory of succession, communitites Ans✓✓✓ Progress
to the climax community
Alabama has a relatively _________ biodiversity compared to other
states Ans✓✓✓ High
Amy Dickman thinks a major benefit of trophy hunting is that it leads to
the protection of ________ which benefits lions Ans✓✓✓ Habitat
An ecosystem is a Ans✓✓✓ System formed by the interaction of a
community of organisms with each other and with their physical
environment
An ecosystem that does not recover quickly from a disturbance is
Ans✓✓✓ Vulnerable
Sensitive
, Assemblage of interacting populations of different species Ans✓✓✓
Community
between -1 and 0 Ans✓✓✓ This figure shows the relationship between
2 variables. p is
Calculating MSY assumes Ans✓✓✓ Logistic growth
K is known
Harvest does not affect r
Claude Jenkins provides guidance mostly to Ans✓✓✓ Landowners
CO2 concentrations in the atmostpher reach a level leading to a sudden
transition between alternate regimes in an ecosystem Ans✓✓✓ Tipping
point
Common goals of restoration include to restore Ans✓✓✓ Native
species assemblage
Ecosystem function
Community based conservation Ans✓✓✓ Local people manage the
natural resource using their knowledge of the resource
Configuration describes Ans✓✓✓ How habitat is arranged in space
_________ can prevent scientist from obtaining _______, so scientists
can use _______ from the areas instead and use ______ to estimate
additional features about those areas. Ans✓✓✓ Weather, aerial
photographs, satellite imagery, models
2km^2 Ans✓✓✓ The figure below shows a landscape. Each square is 1
km by 1 km. Core habitat must be 1 km from the edge of the patch.
Habitat is shown in black. What is the total area of core habitat?
Remember to include the units.
45 km ^2 Ans✓✓✓ The figure below shows a landscape. Each square is
1 km by 1 km. Habitat is shown in black. What is the total area of
habitat? Remember to include the units.
6 Ans✓✓✓ The figure below shows a landscape. Habitat is shown in
black. How many habitat patches are there?
68 km Ans✓✓✓ The figure below shows a landscape. Each square is 1
km by 1 km. Core habitat must be 1 km from the edge of the patch.
Habitat is shown in black. What is the total length of edge around
habitat? Remember to include the units.
7,800 Ans✓✓✓ K = 50,000
N= 25,000
To achieve MSY we should harvest
,A conservation easement protects land owned by whom Ans✓✓✓
Private landownder
A fully stocked stand is? Ans✓✓✓ A forest where trees are spaced for
maximum timber production
A kind of organism that is reproductively isolated from other groups in
nature Ans✓✓✓ species
A strength of structured decision making is Ans✓✓✓ Incorporates
multiple, seeming conflicting values
Incorporates management constraints
Incorporates both values and knowledge to analyze decision options
Represents uncertainty in knowledge
A strength of structured decision making is that it first identifies
Ans✓✓✓ Objectives
Ability of a given level of harvest to produce profits over a long period
of time Ans✓✓✓ Economic viability
Ability of an ecosystem to cope with a given level of use indefinitely
Ans✓✓✓ Sustainability
,According to the flux of nature paradigm, ecosystems often Ans✓✓✓
are not near or approaching equilibrium because disturbances are
widespread and frequent
According to the sustainable-ecosystem approach, what should the role
of reserves be? Ans✓✓✓ They should be managed to provide a link
between conservation and benefits for people, such as allowing some
extraction or tourism revenue to benefit local people
According to the theory of succession, communitites Ans✓✓✓ Progress
to the climax community
Alabama has a relatively _________ biodiversity compared to other
states Ans✓✓✓ High
Amy Dickman thinks a major benefit of trophy hunting is that it leads to
the protection of ________ which benefits lions Ans✓✓✓ Habitat
An ecosystem is a Ans✓✓✓ System formed by the interaction of a
community of organisms with each other and with their physical
environment
An ecosystem that does not recover quickly from a disturbance is
Ans✓✓✓ Vulnerable
Sensitive
, Assemblage of interacting populations of different species Ans✓✓✓
Community
between -1 and 0 Ans✓✓✓ This figure shows the relationship between
2 variables. p is
Calculating MSY assumes Ans✓✓✓ Logistic growth
K is known
Harvest does not affect r
Claude Jenkins provides guidance mostly to Ans✓✓✓ Landowners
CO2 concentrations in the atmostpher reach a level leading to a sudden
transition between alternate regimes in an ecosystem Ans✓✓✓ Tipping
point
Common goals of restoration include to restore Ans✓✓✓ Native
species assemblage
Ecosystem function
Community based conservation Ans✓✓✓ Local people manage the
natural resource using their knowledge of the resource
Configuration describes Ans✓✓✓ How habitat is arranged in space
