Wildlife Conservation - Exam 1

What is Wildlife Diversity? - Answer-Wide variety in species, places, things, and processes What makes up an ecosystem? - Answer-Abiotic, Biotic, Scale, and Interactions between them What are the components of a 4-part food chain? - Answer-Primary Producer, Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer Why do higher trophic levels have relatively less biomass? - Answer-Only 10% of biomass is transferred from one tropic level to the next. What is a niche? - Answer-The ecological role of a species (variety and range of resources used to live) What is niche breadth? - Answer-The extent in variety and range of resources used to live, either generalist or specialist How can niches of two different species overlap (give an example) ? - Answer-A niche of a generalist species can overlap with a niche of a specialist species, such as with different species of warbler What is an example of a specialist? - Answer-Black Footed Ferret What is an example of a generalist? - Answer-Red Fox In what ways is a species' "habitat" more than just the vegetation on the piece of land it lives on? Give examples. - Answer-Food (abundance), Water (physiological and physical), Cover (thermal, behavioral, breeding), Space (home range, populations) What are the basic relationships between food and animal abundance and distribution? - Answer-If there is more food and it is easier to get, animals will be of greater abundance How is water important to animals as a habitat factor? - Answer-Consumption is necessary for survival, and it is a physical component of the landscape What is cover? - Answer-Thermal Cover, Behavioral, Breeding How is "space" a wildlife habitat factor? - Answer-Determines the home range and the population of a species