BSC 340 Final | The University of Alabama | UPDATED
Questions with 100% Verified Answers
Q1: What is the utilitarian approach to natural resource
conservation?
A: Use resources to benefit people
Q2: Seals were harvested at a high rate after European
colonization. This is an example of
A: Intense exploitation
Q3: Non-native herbivores were introduced after European
colonization. This is an example of
A: Change in community composition
Q4: The kind of hunting that led to intense exploitation and, in
some cases, extinction was
A: Market hunting
Q5: The passenger pigeon
A: went extinct
Q6: Select the practices that were used by indigenous
communities
A: Use fire to encourage the growth of useful plant and animal populations
Create a diverse combination of vegetation types on the landscape
Use fire to clear underbrush
Use fire to discourage plant diseases and pests
Q7: Interactions between marine ecosystems and commercial
fishers
A: Coupled human and natural system
Q8: Indigenous depopulation opened opportunities for colonial
settlements, creating opportunities for more disease
outbreaks
A: Positive feedback loop
Q9: Effects of an initial change are damped out by subsequent
changes, with the result that the system reverts to its original
condition
,A: Negative feedback loop
Q10: CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere reach a level leading
to a sudden transition between alternate regimes in an
ecosystem
A: Tipping point
Q11: National Forests were primarily established to
A: Manage timber production
Q12: What was the conflict over Hetch Hetchy about?
A: creating a reservoir for municipal water
Q13: What happened to Hetch Hetchy?
A: A dam was built to create a reservoir for water and power generation
Q14: Gifford Pinchot
A: Worked as a forest manager at Biltmore and with the Forest Service
Q15: An assemblage of interacting populations of different species
is
A: Community
Q16: Estimating and modeling emperor penguin population trends
over time can give scientists information about
A: Whether populations are increasing, stable, or decreasing
What environmental conditions might be affecting emperor penguin populations
The number of emperor penguins in different areas
Q17: Group of organisms of the same species occupying a defined
area during a specific time
A: Population
Q18: Match the blanks in this sentence to the word choices
A: A- Weather
B- Aerial photographs
Q19: [A] can prevent scientists from obtaining [B], so scientists can
use [C] from those areas instead and use [D] to estimate
additional features about those areas.
, A: C- Satellite imagery
D- Models
Q20: Monitoring emperor penguins can give scientists insights into
A: Effects of climate change
Fish, squid, and krill populations
Q21: exponential growth
A:
Q22: Logistic Growth
A:
Q23: N0 = ?
A: initial population size
Q24: What makes a species vulnerable?
A: Endemic
Large Home Range
Specialist
Small Population
Q25: What does NOT make a species vulnerable?
A: Large geographic range
High reproductive rates
High genetic diversity
Questions with 100% Verified Answers
Q1: What is the utilitarian approach to natural resource
conservation?
A: Use resources to benefit people
Q2: Seals were harvested at a high rate after European
colonization. This is an example of
A: Intense exploitation
Q3: Non-native herbivores were introduced after European
colonization. This is an example of
A: Change in community composition
Q4: The kind of hunting that led to intense exploitation and, in
some cases, extinction was
A: Market hunting
Q5: The passenger pigeon
A: went extinct
Q6: Select the practices that were used by indigenous
communities
A: Use fire to encourage the growth of useful plant and animal populations
Create a diverse combination of vegetation types on the landscape
Use fire to clear underbrush
Use fire to discourage plant diseases and pests
Q7: Interactions between marine ecosystems and commercial
fishers
A: Coupled human and natural system
Q8: Indigenous depopulation opened opportunities for colonial
settlements, creating opportunities for more disease
outbreaks
A: Positive feedback loop
Q9: Effects of an initial change are damped out by subsequent
changes, with the result that the system reverts to its original
condition
,A: Negative feedback loop
Q10: CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere reach a level leading
to a sudden transition between alternate regimes in an
ecosystem
A: Tipping point
Q11: National Forests were primarily established to
A: Manage timber production
Q12: What was the conflict over Hetch Hetchy about?
A: creating a reservoir for municipal water
Q13: What happened to Hetch Hetchy?
A: A dam was built to create a reservoir for water and power generation
Q14: Gifford Pinchot
A: Worked as a forest manager at Biltmore and with the Forest Service
Q15: An assemblage of interacting populations of different species
is
A: Community
Q16: Estimating and modeling emperor penguin population trends
over time can give scientists information about
A: Whether populations are increasing, stable, or decreasing
What environmental conditions might be affecting emperor penguin populations
The number of emperor penguins in different areas
Q17: Group of organisms of the same species occupying a defined
area during a specific time
A: Population
Q18: Match the blanks in this sentence to the word choices
A: A- Weather
B- Aerial photographs
Q19: [A] can prevent scientists from obtaining [B], so scientists can
use [C] from those areas instead and use [D] to estimate
additional features about those areas.
, A: C- Satellite imagery
D- Models
Q20: Monitoring emperor penguins can give scientists insights into
A: Effects of climate change
Fish, squid, and krill populations
Q21: exponential growth
A:
Q22: Logistic Growth
A:
Q23: N0 = ?
A: initial population size
Q24: What makes a species vulnerable?
A: Endemic
Large Home Range
Specialist
Small Population
Q25: What does NOT make a species vulnerable?
A: Large geographic range
High reproductive rates
High genetic diversity
